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What

Configure Runner directly from Rust instead of generating TOML.

Adds RunnerConfig and Runner::from_config(...) for clients, targets, labels, algorithms and ordered target alternatives. Typed configuration and TOML use the same validation and construction.

Part of #1164. Based on #931; independent of the bindings and Relay work.

API

Adds RunnerConfig, TargetEligibilityConfig, RequirementScope and Runner::from_config(...). Existing APIs are unchanged. This builds a full Runner with configured provider clients, not a client-free algorithm.

Tests

126 Runner tests, including typed/TOML equivalence, task retention and invalid configuration; strict Clippy and formatting.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Configure deployments with typed settings for clients, targets, labels, routes, and eligibility, with validation for duplicates and unknown references.
  • Choose request-scoped or task-scoped eligibility requirements. In task scope, requirements accumulate across requests for the same task and are applied when selecting eligible targets.
  • Create a runner directly from typed deployment configuration.
  • HTTP client URLs are validated to require a host and use HTTP or HTTPS.

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Walkthrough

The runner adds a public typed configuration API and a constructor for building a runner from that configuration. Eligibility can retain validated requirements by task ID and apply their union to routing. The changes also add limits, validation, tests, and documentation for task-scoped requirements.

Changes

Runner Configuration and Eligibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Typed runner configuration crates/switchyard-runner/src/config.rs, crates/switchyard-runner/src/lib.rs, crates/switchyard-runner/src/runner.rs	DeploymentConfig and eligibility configuration types become public. DeploymentConfig gains typed construction and update methods, with duplicate-name and input validation. Runner::from_config builds a runner from the typed configuration.
Task-scoped requirement retention crates/switchyard-runner/src/eligibility.rs, crates/switchyard-runner/src/config.rs, crates/switchyard-runner/src/route.rs, crates/switchyard-runner/tests/target_eligibility.rs, docs/internal/target-eligibility.md	Task scope retains validated requirement labels by task ID and applies accumulated labels during routing. Invalid task IDs and limit violations return errors. Tests and documentation describe task isolation, retention, limits, and routing behavior.
Typed and TOML configuration validation crates/switchyard-runner/tests/runner_config.rs	Integration tests compare typed and TOML routing, task-scoped requirements, and configuration validation outcomes.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 24bc7

No demonstrated issue prevents merging. Task-scoped routes retain restrictions and intentionally reject new labeled tasks after reaching the documented capacity limit.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 14.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title describes the main change: building runner routes from typed configuration.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 14.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 21 functions across 7 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

• Autofix · Keep fixing CodeRabbit findings and required CI, and resolving merge conflicts

_{A rabbit checks each task’s label,
Then hops to routes that match the table.
New configs bloom, both typed and clear,
While bounded task notes gather here.
“Fast or approved,” the bunny beams,
And curls beneath the routing schemes.}

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Additional comments: 2

crates/switchyard-runner/src/config.rs: 1

172-172: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Unverified finding
Verification ran but could not confirm this finding. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.

Derive Clone and PartialEq on the new public config types.

TargetEligibilityConfig and RequirementScope (derive at Line 187) are now public API. They derive only Debug, Default and Deserialize. Callers cannot clone a policy to reuse it across routes. They also cannot compare a scope or a policy in their own tests. Add Clone, PartialEq, Eq to both types. Add Copy to RequirementScope. This is cheaper to do now than after the type is published.

♻️ Proposed change

-#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize)]
 #[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
 pub struct TargetEligibilityConfig {

Apply the same change at Line 187. Use Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize for RequirementScope.

crates/switchyard-runner/src/eligibility.rs: 1

56-58: Trivial · Nitpick

Unverified finding
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Plan for task-table exhaustion in long-running servers.

Retained tasks have no expiry, eviction or reset. After 4,096 tasks carry non-empty labels, every new labeled task fails with target requirement task capacity exhausted. The failure persists until the process restarts. The behavior fails closed and the docs describe it. It still makes the route unavailable for new labeled tasks on a long-lived server.

Consider one of these:

• Add a host-callable method that releases a task, for example on a session-final signal.
• Add TTL or LRU eviction for tasks.
• Expose a metric or log when the table is more than 80% full.

Eviction must remain an explicit host action. Silent eviction would drop retained restrictions.

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Files selected for processing: 8

• crates/switchyard-runner/src/config.rs
• crates/switchyard-runner/src/eligibility.rs
• crates/switchyard-runner/src/lib.rs
• crates/switchyard-runner/src/route.rs
• crates/switchyard-runner/src/runner.rs
• crates/switchyard-runner/tests/runner_config.rs
• crates/switchyard-runner/tests/target_eligibility.rs
• docs/internal/target-eligibility.md

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