fix(translation): OpenAI Responses codec interoperability fixes for transforming routes

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Summary

This PR collects the OpenAI Responses codec fixes found while benchmarking Switchyard behind Codex 0.149.1 on DeepSWE-v1.1 with GPT-5.6 (Sol, Luna) and Kimi-K3 upstreams. None of them is specific to a routing algorithm. They all sit on the path any router takes when it cannot replay the client's payload verbatim: the buffered path (the reply is aggregated so a judge can read it, then re-streamed), the request path when a route edits the IR (a handoff note, an appended message), and the request path when the client's history has to be re-encoded for the upstream. Passthrough routes that replay the provider's events unchanged were never affected, which is why these went unnoticed until routers that transform traffic were benchmarked against OpenAI upstreams. The escalation-router-specific changes (judge task anchoring and verdict logging) are kept out of this PR and stay in #639.

Issues found and fixes

#	Symptom in the field	Cause	Fix in this PR
1	Codex recorded zero reasoning items on every turn served through a buffered route, while a passthrough route on the same tasks recorded roughly 70 per session.	The stream encoder synthesized reasoning items with text under content as reasoning_text and streamed response.reasoning_text.* events. Providers and the Responses API put reasoning under summary as summary_text with response.reasoning_summary_* events; Codex silently discards the non-standard shape.	Both encoders emit the standard shape: summary: [{type: summary_text}], reasoning_summary_part.added, reasoning_summary_text.delta/done, reasoning_summary_part.done.
2	Reasoning that arrived only as encrypted_content, or only inside a completed item, never reached the IR on the buffered path.	The stream decoder produced reasoning only from delta events, and the encoder discarded details-only chunks.	Reasoning items decode from every carrier a provider uses (output_item.added/done, reasoning_text.done, reasoning_summary_text.done, reasoning_summary_part.done, and items that appear only inside response.completed), exactly once per output index. Encrypted payloads travel as a reasoning.encrypted detail and are re-emitted.
3	Distinct turns' reasoning items and tool calls shared ids (rs_0, fc_1) in the history the client replayed upstream.	Synthesized output-item ids were derived from the output index alone.	Ids include a per-response discriminator.
4	Every latched GPT-5.6 Sol session died with 400 Invalid 'input[3].id': string too long (maximum length 64).	Fix 3 embedded the upstream response id, and the NVIDIA hub issues Kimi-K3 response ids of roughly 360 characters. Kimi accepted the replay; OpenAI enforces the limit.	Response ids longer than 40 characters are replaced by a 64-bit FNV-1a digest in the item id, keeping ids distinct and bounded.
5	With GPT-5.6 Luna as the efficient tier, every session died on turn two with 400 invalid_encrypted_content: item_id did not match the target item id.	The buffered path re-emitted Luna's encrypted reasoning under a synthesized item id; OpenAI verifies the payload against the id it was issued under.	The reasoning.encrypted detail records the provider item id and both encoders reuse it. Should an id ever arrive after the item opened under another id, the payload is dropped with a warning rather than poisoning the replay.
6	Provider-specific event shapes could not be inspected from a live run.	No raw event visibility.	An opt-in trace of raw upstream Responses events under RUST_LOG=switchyard_translation::responses::raw=trace. Adds the workspace tracing dependency to switchyard-translation.
7	On 1.5 percent of GPT-5.6 turns the warning from fix 5 fired and the client never received that turn's encrypted reasoning.	GPT-5 emits a reasoning item ahead of each tool call, so a response can carry several. The stream encoder had one reasoning slot: a second item never opened and its payload arrived under a different id. The single slot also opened under a synthesized id whenever summary text streamed before the payload.	The encoder tracks reasoning items per source index and emits each as its own output item in provider order. The stream decoder announces a reasoning item's provider id as soon as output_item.added names it, so the item opens under that id before any text or payload. The response accumulator folds the announcement into the payload detail and drops announcements whose payload never came, so replayed history keeps one detail per item; the chat encoder skips announcements.

Validation

Each fix has a unit or integration test that was written first and confirmed failing before the change. The translation crate's suite passes (172 tests), the protocol crate's suite passes (25), and workspace clippy is clean with -D warnings. The branch has main merged in and CI is green. Changelog entries are included under Unreleased. cargo test --workspace --exclude prefill-router --exclude switchyard-py passes; the two excluded crates fail to link libpython on the build host, unrelated to this change.

Live validation against the NVIDIA hub with Codex 0.149.1 on DeepSWE-v1.1 tasks, comparing an image built from this branch with the previous main-based image on the same five tasks: reasoning items recorded by the client went from 0 per task to between 35 and 94, upstream 400s went to zero, and latched GPT-5.6 Sol sessions ran 12 to 132 calls to completion instead of dying on their first or second call. With GPT-5.6 Luna as the efficient tier, a five-task smoke completed all tasks with zero request failures and one latched session running 75 Sol calls.

Relation to #645

The request-side counterpart of these fixes, replaying a client's reasoning history to an OpenAI upstream in the shape it accepts once exact replay is no longer possible, landed on main in #645 (Sabhatina). This branch has main merged in, including #645, and the one overlap in the buffered request decoder was resolved in favour of #645's verbatim reasoning item. The shared helpers here accept both that item and the documented reasoning.encrypted detail, so a reply that is buffered and then re-streamed keeps its encrypted payload under the original item id whichever shape the decoder produced.

Not in this PR

Support for Responses freeform (custom) tools and the Codex "Responses lite" request shape, which Codex uses when it recognizes a GPT-5 model name, is in #648, stacked on this branch. The escalation judge changes remain in #639.

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[linj-glitch]

Removed the request-history reasoning replay commit from this PR: #645 fixes the same problem (input reasoning items must have no content parts and keep id, summary and encrypted_content). To make merge order irrelevant, the shared helpers that the stream and buffered response encoders use to read an encrypted payload and its item id now also accept the verbatim reasoning item that #645 stores as the detail (0de2d55), so a buffered-then-re-streamed reply keeps its encrypted content under the original id either way. Expect a small textual conflict in decode_responses_reasoning_item in buffered.rs between the two PRs; whichever lands second should keep #645's detail shape for the request path and this PR's response-side behaviour.

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Walkthrough

The Responses codecs now preserve plaintext and encrypted reasoning across buffered and streaming translation. They use summary_text event shapes, retain provider item IDs, deduplicate streamed reasoning, and generate response-scoped IDs within the length limit.

Changes

Responses reasoning translation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reasoning helpers and state crates/switchyard-translation/Cargo.toml, crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/common.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/stream.rs	Added helpers for extracting reasoning text, encrypted payloads, and provider item IDs. Stream state now tracks decoded and preserved reasoning data.
Buffered reasoning replay crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/buffered.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/tests/request_translation.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/tests/response_translation.rs	Buffered translation now uses summary_text, supports encrypted-only reasoning, and preserves original item IDs and encrypted payloads.
Streaming reasoning translation crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/stream.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/tests/stream_translation.rs	Streaming translation now decodes and deduplicates reasoning events, emits standard summary events, preserves encrypted reasoning, and creates response-scoped item IDs.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8a3cf

Responses containing multiple encrypted reasoning items can lose required replay data and fail on later turns. This should be corrected before merge.

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Summary text now leads the way,
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In `@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/stream.rs`:
- Around line 323-325: Update the Responses reasoning encoding flow around
decode_responses_reasoning_item so encrypted reasoning state is stored
separately for each output index or provider ID instead of overwriting
response_reasoning_item_id and response_reasoning_encrypted. Preserve each
item’s ID and payload, then emit every stored reasoning item with its
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