[Harrilee]

Dependency update: AISimulate #578 now extracts the neutral core hooks, conversation lineage, and shared Rust execution entry. The planned order is #578 → Dynamo #16854 → AISimulate #306 final AgentX acceptance; #15240 remains optional. The current diff below still uses the earlier Python bridge and will be rewritten to consume the existing native Rust composition after the prerequisite.

Summary

Expose Dynamo's existing scheduler and session-affinity primitives through the existing Python KV bindings in lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/kv.rs. OfflineRouter delegates selection, admission, booking and cancellation to LocalScheduler; SessionAffinity delegates binding, leases and TTL to the native table. Reuse ModelRuntimeConfig, RadixTree and hash bindings.

The bindings accept request fields, observations and explicit clock advances. AISimulate owns conversation lineage, role translation, simulation execution and reporting. No simulator dependency or extra wheel is introduced.

The implementation shares the existing binding module; no separate offline_router.rs is added. Retain #15631's actively used manual-clock and affinity APIs, and return its unused public PolicyQueue::recheck_all_workers exposure to crate-private visibility. The complete diff is +732/-10 across seven files, including Python declarations and five boundary tests.

Merge this API before AISimulate #306, which owns AgentX acceptance. Dynamo #15240 is an optional downstream integration update. No release backport is requested.

Validation

Rebased onto main 75d0686fb7def243ab5a07ec69159427b169675c. Paired with AISimulate 9beb4811f46d1a60b6130b11da0b989ddce694cc.

• Built and installed the default runtime wheel without ais-forward-pass.
• Five native-interface tests passed: affinity ownership/TTL, cache-informed selection and booking lifecycle, queue cancellation, deterministic seeding, and operation with simulator imports blocked.
• AISimulate's 24 CLI cases and two host lifecycle cases passed using only ai-dynamo-runtime, without the ai-dynamo simulation plugin.
• Rust formatting and applicable pre-commit checks passed. The move preserves Python names and behavior.

Calls are synchronous and thread-affine. Functional acceptance does not measure Python transport performance. GitHub CI results are tracked on this PR's current commit.

Part of ai-dynamo/aisimulate#38.

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Walkthrough

The Python bindings add dynamo.llm.OfflineRouter, a host-controlled interface to native routing. It processes JSON commands, uses explicit replay time, supports affinity and worker lifecycle updates, and returns placement results and routing evidence.

Changes

OfflineRouter

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Public API and command contracts lib/bindings/python/rust/lib.rs, lib/bindings/python/rust/llm.rs, lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/wire.rs, lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/mod.rs, lib/bindings/python/src/dynamo/_core.pyi, lib/bindings/python/src/dynamo/llm/__init__.py, lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/README.md	The bindings expose OfflineRouter. The implementation adds JSON command, request, observation, and response contracts with configuration and topology validation. The stub and README describe the interface and its constraints.
Replay runtime and scheduler setup lib/bindings/python/Cargo.toml, lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/runtime.rs, lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/helpers.rs, lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/router.rs	The router uses a paused Tokio runtime with explicit time advancement. Replay helpers configure workers and slots, and the router initializes its native scheduler and replay state.
Affinity leases and routing evidence lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/affinity.rs	Session and sibling-group affinity use staged and active leases. Manual clock updates, dispatch outcomes, and physical KV events update routing evidence.
Placement, lifecycle, and Python integration lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/mod.rs, lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/router.rs, lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/tests.rs, lib/bindings/python/tests/test_offline_router_policy.py	JSON commands drive placements, observations, dispatch and request lifecycle, and worker topology changes through native scheduler admissions. Rust and Python tests cover affinity, cache reuse, role-specific load, virtual time, and invalid commands.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2c4be

The new OfflineRouter can keep routing to a worker after the host removes it, unless the host marked that worker as draining first. Re-adding that worker afterwards breaks the router handle until it is recreated. The new Python tests also lack required scheduling and timeout markers, so they may not run in pre-merge CI or may fail the marker check. Both issues have small fixes and should be resolved before merge.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

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Passed checks: 4 passed

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Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: exposing native scheduler and affinity capabilities through Python bindings.
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Review comments at @lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/router.rs:
- Around line 739-746: Update finalize_worker_removal to remove wid from
workers_with_configs when it is still eligible, and publish the updated
collection through workers_tx only when a removal occurs. Preserve the existing
slot unregistration and indexer tree cleanup behavior.

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lifecycle marker alongside unit and gpu_0, and add timeout markers to
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• lib/bindings/python/Cargo.toml
• lib/bindings/python/rust/lib.rs
• lib/bindings/python/rust/llm.rs
• lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/README.md
• lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/affinity.rs
• lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/helpers.rs
• lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/mod.rs
• lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/router.rs
• lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/runtime.rs
• lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/tests.rs
• lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/offline_router/wire.rs
• lib/bindings/python/src/dynamo/_core.pyi
• lib/bindings/python/src/dynamo/llm/__init__.py
• lib/bindings/python/tests/test_offline_router_policy.py

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Previously reported defects still present:

• Original discussion: The Python test module still declares only unit and gpu_0, so it lacks the required lifecycle marker and may be deselected from its intended pre-merge stage; the wall-clock sleep and subprocess cases also still lack pytest timeout markers.
• Original discussion: The reported direct-worker_removed defect remains: finalize_worker_removal unregisters slots and clears the radix tree without removing the worker from workers_with_configs or publishing the updated selector membership, so a removed worker remains selectable unless the host previously sent worker_draining.
• Original discussion: Verified at the reviewed head: worker_removed accepts any known worker, but finalize_worker_removal does not remove it from workers_with_configs or publish the updated worker set. Calling worker_removed without worker_draining therefore leaves the removed worker eligible for selection, and later re-adding that ID poisons the handle because its router entry still exists. Remove and publish eligibility during final removal, or require the draining transition first.
• Original discussion: Verified still present: worker_removed is accepted for any known worker, but finalize_worker_removal unregisters slot/indexer state without removing the worker from workers_with_configs or publishing the new selection set. A direct removal can therefore leave the removed worker selectable, and a later worker_ready for that ID fails because the internal config still exists, poisoning the handle. Remove and publish the worker during finalization when it remains eligible, or require a preceding draining transition.

[dynamo-review-agent]

This comment merely expands NativeRouterEngineArgs; the private struct name and its capacity/topology fields already convey the same information, with no invariant or constraint added.

🤖 AI Fix

Remove this redundant doc comment.

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Aborting an admitted request frees its scheduler booking, and free_if_booking notifies queued admissions that capacity changed, but this path neither polls those admissions nor schedules a wakeup for routers without affinity (next_wakeup_ms only consults affinity.ready). Such a response can therefore report pending_count > 0 with next_wakeup_ms: null, leaving the newly ready placement stranded under the documented wakeup-driven host loop. Drain admissions here or expose an immediate non-affinity wakeup after the free.

🤖 AI Fix

Make dispatch_aborted arrange an immediate poll of newly woken admissions for every router, either by returning the released placements or by setting a general wakeup flag consumed by advance_clock.

[dynamo-review-agent]

These lines restate the test name and the immediately visible setup: two identical requests are placed and their independent decode load is asserted. They add no non-obvious reason or constraint.

🤖 AI Fix

Remove these two narrating comment lines.

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[dreamtalen]

Could we clarify why conversation-aware replay needs these new fine-grained Python bindings?

The existing Dynamo replay integration constructs KvReplayComposition in Rust and injects it through AISimulate’s PlacementPolicy interface. With the neutral dispatch/time hooks, I’d expect us to extend that existing Rust adapter to use native affinity.

In the paired AISimulate PR, these bindings are called through an AISimulate-owned Python adapter, introducing Rust → Python → Rust calls for placement, observations and clock updates. That brings back the execution-path concern we discussed earlier in Slack.