ADR 0004 § Decision § Chain advancement step 4 promised a per-hop
failure detail debug header `X-OLP-Fallback-Detail`. From D9 through
D39 the engine logged per-hop events (D28 added correlation fields)
but never surfaced the failure trail on the response. D40 fulfills
the promise via Option A — ungated v0.1 emission. Phase 2 will
re-introduce owner-vs-non-owner gating when `lib/keys.mjs` lands.
**Per-hop tuple collection** (lib/fallback/engine.mjs)
executeWithFallback now collects `fallbackDetail` — an array of per-hop
tuples — and returns it on EVERY return shape (success / client-error /
AUTH_MISSING / non-trigger / chain-exhausted). Soft-trigger skipped
hops are also recorded with `trigger_type: 'soft'` (currently dead-
code-by-config per ADR 0004 Amendment 2; shape forward-compatible).
Tuple shape (reuses D28 log-event field shapes so logs and the header
pivot on the same keys):
```
{
hop: <0-indexed hop number>,
provider: <provider name>,
model: <model name from IR>,
code: <ProviderError code, engine-synthetic SOFT_TRIGGER, or 'UNKNOWN'>,
error_message: <truncated to 200 chars with ellipsis on overflow>,
trigger_type: 'hard' | 'soft' | 'client_error' | 'auth_missing' | 'unclassified'
}
```
**Header serialiser** (server.mjs)
- `FALLBACK_DETAIL_BYTE_CAP = 4096` (UTF-8 bytes).
- `serializeFallbackDetailHeader(fallbackDetail)` exported. Returns
`null` for empty/null/undefined → caller omits the header.
- `jsonStringifyAscii` escapes every non-ASCII code point as `\uXXXX`
to satisfy RFC 7230 §3.2.6 field-vchar (Node's HTTP header validator
rejects multi-byte UTF-8). The D38 CONCURRENCY_LIMIT synthesised
message contains a U+2014 em dash — without this escape, every
CONCURRENCY_LIMIT response crashed at writeHead with
"Invalid character in header content". The regression test pins
this exact string.
- 4KB cap algorithm: builds candidates as `[...slice(0, kept), sentinel]`
and measures the FULL serialised length (including sentinel) before
comparing against the cap, so the result is guaranteed under cap.
Tail tuples dropped one at a time. Sentinel form:
`{ truncated: true, omitted_hops: N }`.
**Header emission** (server.mjs)
- `withFallbackDetailHeader(base, fallbackDetail)` wraps the base
header object; emits the header only when serialiser returns
non-null.
- Emitted on chain-exhausted, non-trigger-error, client-error,
AUTH_MISSING, and success-with-prior-failure paths.
- ABSENT on clean primary success — verified by a dedicated HTTP
integration test.
**Tests** (test-features.mjs): 452 → 468 (+16):
- Engine-level tuple shape: 2-hop/exhausted, 2-hop/success-with-prior-
failure, 1-hop/success (empty array), 1-hop/fail, non-ProviderError-
yields-UNKNOWN, 500-char-message → 200-char-with-ellipsis, client
error → 1 tuple + client_error trigger type
- Serialiser: empty/null → null, small array round-trip, >4KB cap
with `{truncated:true,omitted_hops:N}` sentinel, RFC 7230 newline/CR
escaping, non-ASCII escaping (em dash regression guard for the D38
CONCURRENCY_LIMIT synthesised message)
- HTTP integration: clean-1-hop-success (header absent), 2-hop-
exhausted (2 tuples on the wire), 2-hop-success-with-prior-failure
(1 tuple on the wire)
Pre-commit fold-in (per evidence-first checkpoint #4):
- **Reviewer Suggestion #2**: `jsonStringifyAscii` regex character
class `[U+0080-U+FFFF]` contains an invisible U+0080 boundary marker
that editors render as nothing, making the line easy to misread as
the empty class `[-...]`. Folded in a 5-line comment block above
the function body explaining the literal byte range and citing
RFC 7230 §3.2.6.
Two reviewer suggestions not folded:
- **Suggestion #1**: AUTH_MISSING tuple path lacks a dedicated D40
test. Code is structurally correct (tuple pushed before early-
return); low priority. Future polish.
- **Suggestion #3**: defensive `err.code != null` guard. Extremely
low priority — PROVIDER_ERROR_CODES is a closed enum with no
falsy values.
**ADR amendments** (docs/adr/0004-fallback-engine.md)
- Amendment 5 added at top of amendments stack — full tuple schema,
cap behavior, RFC 7230 hygiene, ungated v0.1 rationale, Phase 2
follow-up.
- § Chain advancement step 4 updated to remove TBD / not-yet-
implemented qualifiers and cross-reference Amendment 5.
- § Observability headers section gains the X-OLP-Fallback-Detail
schema as IMPLEMENTED at v0.1.
**CHANGELOG.md** — D40 sub-entry appended under existing D38/D39
entries in Unreleased section. No package.json bump per
phase_rolling_mode.
Authority:
- ADR 0004 § Decision § Chain advancement step 4 — D40 fulfils
the promise
- ADR 0004 Amendment 5 (this commit) — implementation contract
- ADR 0004 § Observability headers — updated to IMPLEMENTED state
- D18 (5 standard X-OLP-* headers) — D40 builds on this convention
- D28 (per-hop structured log fields) — D40 reuses the field shapes
- GitHub issue #7 — closed by this commit
- CC 开发铁律 v1.6 § 10.x — fresh-context opus reviewer independent
- CLAUDE.md release_kit_overlay phase_rolling_mode — no version bump
Reviewer (Iron Rule v1.6 § 10.x Mode A, fresh-context opus,
independent of drafter): APPROVE. Critical depth checks:
- Tuple pushed once per hop, BEFORE client-error / AUTH_MISSING
early-return branches — both paths include the failing tuple
- fallbackDetail returned on all 5 return paths (verified line by line)
- Cap algorithm measures FULL serialised length (with sentinel)
before comparing — no overshoot
- RFC 7230 compliance verified end-to-end: imported the function
in Node, confirmed em-dash → —, unescaped form throws
"Invalid character in header content"
- Serialiser handles null / undefined / [] gracefully → header
absent on clean primary success (HTTP test pins this)
- Hygiene: 0 hits for personal markers, home paths, tokens
- 468/468 tests pass in reviewer's independent npm test run
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Architecture Decision Records — OLP
This directory holds the OLP Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) — short documents that capture the why behind structural choices.
Read these before proposing governance, plug-in contract, IR, fallback, cache, or provider-inclusion changes.
Numbering
ADRs in OLP start at 0001 (the project's founding decision). OLP did not inherit the 0001 placeholder convention OCP used; the project starts on a fresh numbering line.
New ADRs increment from the highest existing number. Filenames are NNNN-<short-slug>.md.
Index
| ADR | Title | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| 0001 | Project Founding | Why OLP exists (the 2026-06-15 Anthropic billing-split trigger), mission + non-mission boundaries, explicit supersession of OCP ADR 0005 "No Multi-Provider". |
| 0002 | Plugin Architecture for Providers | The lib/providers/<name>.mjs plug-in model, the Provider contract (name / models / auth / spawn / estimateCost / quotaStatus / healthCheck / hints), static in-tree registry, why-not full external plugin discovery. |
| 0003 | Intermediate Representation (IR) Design | The OLP-internal canonical request/response shape between the OpenAI-compat entry surface and each provider plugin. v1.0 IR fields, IR-vs-OpenAI-vs-native-provider three-shape model, IR is not exposed externally. |
| 0004 | Fallback Engine Semantics & Safety | Trigger taxonomy (Hard / Soft / Deterministic-deferred / Cost-aware-deferred), idempotent-failure safety (first-chunk rule), chain advancement one-at-a-time, observability headers. |
| 0005 | Cache Layer Cross-Provider Design | Cache key composition over (provider, model, messages, …), per-model isolation, D1+D2+D3+D4 port from OCP v3.13.0, cross-provider fallback cache behaviour (correct miss). |
| 0006 | Provider Inclusion / Exclusion + Risk-Tier Framework | The 4-tier classification (A excluded by default / B explicit consent / C opt-in / D eligible-for-default-enabled), Candidate-vs-Enabled distinction, current v0.1 candidate inventory (0 Enabled), Antigravity exclusion rationale (named prohibition + no cost advantage + reinstatement friction; pending primary-source pin), consent UX, future provider addition procedure. |
When to write a new ADR
Open one whenever:
- A structural rule is being added or changed (e.g., new IR field, new trigger type, new cache-key composition).
- A new provider plugin is being proposed (per ADR 0002 + ADR 0006 — ADR is a hard prerequisite for plugin merge).
- A decision encodes a lesson from an external event (provider policy change, drift incident).
- A future contributor reading the code alone could plausibly undo or re-litigate the choice.
Skip ADRs for routine implementation choices (algorithm pick, naming) — those belong in commit messages.
Format
Keep ADRs short — Context / Decision / Consequences / Alternatives is the standard skeleton. Cite incidents, PRs, or commits where useful. Length per ADR ~150–250 lines; longer than that, split.