When a model config has no explicit backend, the model loader greedily
probes every installed backend and binds to the first Load that
succeeds. opus and local-store were the only in-tree backends with no
model artefact to validate, so they accepted anything — an LLM
installed after them could silently bind to the audio codec or the
vector store and then fail at inference with "unimplemented"
(see #9287).
opus now accepts only its own name (what the realtime WebRTC path
sends) or none. local-store namespaces are arbitrary (router caches,
biometrics, user-named stores), so core's StoreBackend now marks
genuine store loads with a store:// prefix on the gRPC model name and
the backend refuses names without it; core and backend ship from the
same release, so the convention upgrades in lockstep.
Also repair the bit-rotted 'make test-stores' bootstrap (the suite
never registered external backends, so BACKENDS_PATH was dead weight)
and add the Load-validation rule to the adding-backends checklist.
Related: #9287
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Add a routing middleware stack and a cloud-proxy backend.
* cloud-proxy: a Go gRPC backend that forwards OpenAI- and
Anthropic-shaped chat requests to upstream providers, with an
optional translate mode (OpenAI request -> Anthropic /v1/messages
-> OpenAI response) and full tool-calling support.
* routing: admission control, content-aware model routing
(embedding cache + classifier + rerank + Arch-Router score),
PII detection/redaction (regex + NER) with streaming filter and
OpenAI/Anthropic adapters, and a per-user/per-key billing recorder
backed by GORM or in-memory storage.
* middleware: UsageMiddleware records usage via the billing recorder,
plus admission, route-model, usage-stamp and trace middlewares.
* observability: BackendTrace ring buffer stores full request bodies
(capped), MITM proxy emits structured trace events, and router
classifier decisions surface at /api/router/decide.
* gallery: Arch-Router-1.5B (Q4_K_M and Q8_0).
* UI: cloud-proxy model-editor fields, classifier system-prompt and
score-normalization config, and a Traces page rendering request
bodies.
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