fix(libsy): redact upstream error content from judge warning logs

[gburachas]

Closes #278.

What

When an llm_classifier route consults its judge model and that call fails, the route logs a warning and proceeds without a verdict. That warning currently includes the underlying error rendered in full. This change replaces it with a summary that reports the failure's class, the target or model involved, and an HTTP status where one exists, and nothing else.

Why

The log line is in report_fail_open, in crates/libsy/src/algorithms/util/llm_judge.rs, and it runs on every turn where the judge is unavailable. It formats the error with error = %error, which uses the error's Display implementation.

For LlmClientError::UpstreamHttp that implementation is:

#[error("upstream returned HTTP {status}: {body}")]

body is the upstream response body verbatim. Providers commonly echo the offending request back in a 400, and the judge's request contains a condensed view of the user's conversation. A failing judge therefore writes conversation content into the logs once per turn.

Example: a judge call rejected with {"error":{"message":"bad request: <user text>"}} currently logs that whole string. After this change it logs client call to target "weak" failed: upstream HTTP 400.

What is added

A new module, crates/libsy/src/algorithms/util/robustness.rs, with two functions used by the three call sites in llm_judge.rs:

• safe_error_summary(&LibsyError)
• safe_client_error(&LlmClientError)

report_fail_open now takes an already-redacted String rather than a &dyn Display, so a caller cannot pass the raw error by accident.

Two details worth keeping in review:

• The match over LibsyError is exhaustive rather than falling back to to_string(). A new variant then fails to compile instead of silently logging its Display output. LlmClientError is #[non_exhaustive] so it needs a wildcard, but every current variant has an explicit arm.
• an_upstream_body_never_reaches_the_summary asserts both that the summary omits the sensitive text and that error.to_string() still contains it. The second assertion is what fails if the redaction is ever bypassed.

Relationship to other work

#428 redacts transport and timeout errors at the server's HTTP response boundary, so they are not returned to callers. This is the separate log boundary inside the routing library. Neither covers the other.

#205 added the bounded reason label and the switchyard.classifier_fail_open metric on this same line. That work is unchanged here; only the error field is affected.

How tested

• cargo fmt --all --check
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
• cargo test --workspace
• uv run pytest tests/ -m "not integration" — 157 passed
• uv run ruff check .
• Commits signed off per the DCO

Eight unit tests cover the redaction cases, including boxed transport and decode sources, context-window overflow, and the free-form General variant.

Note for anyone reading the CodeRabbit panel: the "Docstring Coverage" check measures Python docstrings and this diff is Rust only.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved error logging to prevent sensitive upstream response details and raw error messages from being recorded.
  • Error reports now retain only safe operational details, such as error types, targets, models, and HTTP status codes.

• Tests

  • Added coverage verifying sensitive information is consistently removed from logged error summaries.

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Walkthrough

The change adds redacted summaries for libsy and client errors, wires them into judge failure logging, and tests removal of upstream bodies, boxed sources, and free-form messages while retaining approved operational details.

Changes

Safe judge logging

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Redacted error summaries crates/libsy/src/algorithms/util/robustness.rs	Adds helpers that retain approved error classes, targets, models, status codes, and structural details while suppressing untrusted content.
Judge logging integration crates/libsy/src/algorithms/util.rs, crates/libsy/src/algorithms/util/llm_judge.rs	Registers the robustness module and passes sanitized owned messages to report_fail_open.
Redaction validation crates/libsy/src/algorithms/util/robustness.rs	Adds tests for upstream bodies, boxed sources, context-window messages, configuration errors, algorithm messages, extension sources, and approved details.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9aa74

The redaction change currently replaces safe AlgorithmError diagnostics with a generic label, losing required context from warning logs. That bounded correctness issue should be fixed before merge; the requested test comments are non-blocking style follow-up.

Poem

I’m a rabbit guarding the log,
No secret text escapes the fog.
Status, model, class remain,
Unsafe bodies leave no stain.
Safe summaries hop in line—
The judge can warn, and all is fine. 🐇

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: redacting upstream error content from judge warning logs.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy the coding objectives in [#278], including safe summaries, exhaustive redaction, judge-path integration, and coverage tests.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within [#278] and are limited to the judge logging path, helper module, module declaration, and related tests.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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In `@crates/libsy/src/algorithms/util/robustness.rs`:
- Line 35: Update the LibsyError formatting logic so the AlgorithmError variant
preserves and returns its contained diagnostic text instead of replacing it with
a generic label. Adjust the related test to assert a known-safe diagnostic
appears in the summary, using a fixture value that does not contain “SECRET”.
- Around line 86-87: Add a concise one-line intent comment immediately before
each newly added test in the robustness test module, including
an_upstream_body_never_reaches_the_summary and the other referenced tests. Each
comment should state the specific redaction behavior the test must enforce,
matching the case covered by its test name.

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