feat(translation): support Bedrock Converse as a native wire format

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What

Add WireFormat::BedrockConverse and buffered Converse / semantic ConverseStream codecs to the built-in translation registries. Embedded hosts can translate Bedrock JSON through the neutral IR alongside Chat, Responses, and Anthropic. decode_event_stream accepts host-deframed JSON events; native preserved events replay without an extra terminal sequence.

Why

Closes #864. At the base revision, decoding bedrock_converse fails with “no codec registered.” Hosts otherwise need a separate codec or gateway.

Notes for reviewers

Start with crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/bedrock.rs and tests/bedrock_translation.rs. Coverage includes text and function-tool history across existing formats, native control preservation and strict loss, signed/redacted reasoning aggregation, cache usage, arguments before tool identity, malformed events, truncation, and provider errors. JSON tool results normalize to serialized JSON text; preserved native bodies retain their original JSON. Regression coverage also checks context-window exhaustion stays incomplete across all existing formats, adjacent wire-role messages merge in order, parallel tool results retain order, and disabled tools with history retain required configuration with a loss diagnostic (strict policy rejects it). Missing tool definitions with normalized tool history fail; exact native preservation can retain bodies whose tools are supplied by a Prompt ARN.

Source compatibility: adding the public WireFormat variant breaks external exhaustive matches. Existing workspace matches are updated. Server SSE framing explicitly rejects Bedrock; this adds no Bedrock route or configuration.

The host still supplies URL-owned model IDs, AWS credentials, signing, regions, retries, and binary EventStream framing. Bedrock-to-Anthropic streams omit Bedrock signature fragments while retaining visible reasoning and answer text; redacted Bedrock reasoning fails explicitly. Bedrock encoding rejects foreign opaque stream details, including Anthropic signatures. Bedrock encoding requires reported input and output usage; a missing total is computed from those counts and cache details. Parallel tools serialize into Bedrock blocks; a closed tool block cannot resume after other content.

Validation with the repository's pinned Rust 1.99:

• cargo fmt --all --check
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --locked -- -D warnings
• cargo clippy -p switchyard-server --all-targets --features prefill-router --locked -- -D warnings
• cargo test --workspace --locked: 922 passed, 1 ignored (external handoff fixture required).
• cargo test -p switchyard-runner --features prefill-router --locked: 67 passed.
• git diff --check

No live provider call was made. Python CI and packaging checks were not run. No Python source, packaging configuration, or FFI signatures were changed. The Rust workspace checks include the bindings crate.

The issue's linked ConductorOne prototype informed the implementation; this is not a wholesale merge of that commit.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added support for Amazon Bedrock Converse for translating requests and responses, including streaming events.
  • Added a dedicated event-stream decoding option for already de-framed Bedrock events.
  • Expanded documentation with supported formats, streaming requirements, and translation limitations.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of Bedrock content-filter, guardrail, malformed-output, and malformed-tool-use stop reasons.
  • Bedrock stream errors and incomplete streams are now surfaced as errors rather than successful completions.

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Walkthrough

Adds Bedrock Converse as a wire format. The change includes buffered request and response codecs, ConverseStream event codecs, translation-engine registration, stream helpers, server error handling, and translation tests.

Changes

Bedrock Converse translation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Wire-format contract and registration crates/protocol/src/format.rs, crates/protocol/src/stream.rs, crates/switchyard-server/src/lib.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/bedrock.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/mod.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/src/engine.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/src/helpers.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/README.md, crates/switchyard-translation/tests/lossless_roundtrip.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/tests/request_translation.rs	Adds the bedrock_converse format identifier and registers the buffered codec. Updates stop-reason mapping, server error responses, request diagnostics, model handling, documentation, and exhaustive test matches.
Buffered request and response translation crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/bedrock/buffered.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/tests/bedrock_translation.rs	Adds JSON request and response decoding and encoding. Maps messages, settings, tools, content, stop reasons, and usage; validates fields and reports or rejects unsupported mappings. Adds buffered translation tests.
ConverseStream event translation crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/bedrock/stream.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/stream.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/anthropic/stream.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/src/helpers.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/src/sse.rs, crates/switchyard-server/src/sse.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/tests/bedrock_translation.rs	Adds Bedrock event decoding, encoding, replay state, and finish-time events. Adds de-framed event-stream decoding and Bedrock-specific terminal handling. Rejects Bedrock events where SSE framing is required and rejects Bedrock reasoning details that cannot be encoded as Anthropic thinking text. Adds stream tests.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 312cb

Bedrock Converse translation is new, and several common flows fail in it. Bedrock likely rejects translated requests that contain parallel tool results or prior tool history. Context exhaustion can look like normal completion. Bedrock reasoning streams sent to Anthropic clients end in an error. Fix these issues before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 29.49% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 78 functions across 16 files. (1 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue [#864] requires a BedrockConverse wire format, buffered request and response translation through the neutral IR, incremental ConverseStream translation, and focused round-trip and cross-format t…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes support issue [#864] at the protocol and translation boundary. Registry and helper changes expose translation; error mapping and the explicit server SSE rejection prevent unsupported Bedro…
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding Bedrock Converse as a native wire format in the translation system.

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 29.49% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 78 functions across 16 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/protocol/src/stream.rs:
- Line 512: Update the Bedrock stop-reason mapping in the match containing
`StopReason::Error` to recognize `model_context_window_exceeded` as a
non-success outcome, and apply the same mapping in the buffered Bedrock codec.
Ensure target-format encoding preserves that non-success outcome rather than
reporting normal completion.

Review comments at
@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/anthropic/stream.rs:
- Around line 214-228: Update the Bedrock detail check in the
ReasoningDetailsDelta arm of encode_anthropic_stream so opaque Bedrock
signatures are skipped or mapped instead of failing the stream; reserve
DecodeError for bedrock.redacted_content, with an error message that names
redacted reasoning. Update
event_stream_errors_and_truncation_fail_without_success_terminal to assert the
chosen signature behavior.

Review comments at
@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/bedrock/buffered.rs:
- Around line 285-314: Update the Bedrock request encoding around
`request.tool_choice` and `body` so history containing `ContentBlock::ToolCall`
or `ContentBlock::ToolResult` always has a valid `toolConfig`: when tools are
available, include them without encoding `ToolChoice::None` and report the lossy
diagnostic; when no tools are available, return an error or diagnostic instead
of emitting a rejected body. Update the corresponding `bedrock_translation.rs`
test to expect this behavior.
- Around line 249-258: In the message-encoding loop, merge consecutive
non-system messages that map through encode_role to the same Bedrock role:
append the newly encoded content blocks to the previous message instead of
emitting another message. Preserve separate messages when the roles differ.

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• crates/protocol/src/format.rs
• crates/protocol/src/stream.rs
• crates/switchyard-server/src/lib.rs
• crates/switchyard-server/src/sse.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/README.md
• crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/anthropic/stream.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/bedrock.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/bedrock/buffered.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/bedrock/stream.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/mod.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/stream.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/src/engine.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/src/helpers.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/src/sse.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/tests/bedrock_translation.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/tests/lossless_roundtrip.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/tests/request_translation.rs

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Handle Bedrock context-window exhaustion as a non-success stop.

If Bedrock returns model_context_window_exceeded, this match produces StopReason::Unknown. A cross-format translation can then report normal completion instead of context exhaustion. AWS lists this as a valid stop reason. Map it consistently here and in crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/bedrock/buffered.rs Lines 781–789, and preserve a non-success outcome when encoding the target format. (docs.aws.amazon.com)

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Review comment at @crates/protocol/src/stream.rs at line 512:
Update the Bedrock stop-reason mapping in the match containing
`StopReason::Error` to recognize `model_context_window_exceeded` as a
non-success outcome, and apply the same mapping in the buffered Bedrock codec.
Ensure target-format encoding preserves that non-success outcome rather than
reporting normal completion.

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