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Summary

Prevents unbounded Fabric runtime-session growth for clients that invoke a
deployed agent without X-Nemo-Session-Id. Headerless requests now use an
ephemeral one-shot runtime that is stopped when the response or response stream
completes, while requests with a session header retain the existing registered
session lifecycle.

This covers evaluation and security-testing clients that send independent
headerless requests.

Related Issue

AIRCORE-1108

Related prior approach: NVIDIA-NeMo/nemo-platform#1240

Changes

  • Route requests without X-Nemo-Session-Id through one-shot Fabric invocation
    instead of creating a registered runtime session.
  • Keep requests with a session header on the existing lazy session creation,
    reuse, idle expiration, explicit closure, and shutdown paths.
  • Add non-streaming and streaming one-shot helpers that start an ephemeral
    runtime and guarantee cleanup after completion, failure, timeout, cancellation,
    or client disconnect.
  • Keep streaming runtimes alive until response delivery finishes and close the
    stream when delivery ends early.
  • Shield streaming cleanup from request cancellation and bound the response's
    cleanup wait without limiting invocation or stream duration.
  • Classify runtime context-entry failures as startup errors while preserving
    cleanup error classification for failures after startup.
  • Apply the existing invocation concurrency limit to both stateful and one-shot
    work, including one-shot runtime construction and cleanup.
  • Preserve the current OpenAI-compatible request, response, streaming, and error
    contracts, including the existing Studio chat behavior.
  • Document the session-header lifecycle contract for direct API clients.
  • Add regression coverage for routing, runtime isolation, concurrency, streaming
    lifetime, disconnects, direct cancellation, delayed cleanup failures, error
    mapping, and exact-once cleanup.

Design Decisions

  • Use header presence as the lifecycle boundary. A missing session header
    means the caller did not request persistent runtime state, so the server does
    not generate or register an implicit session. A supplied header continues to
    identify a Platform-managed runtime session.
  • Reuse Fabric's one-shot lifecycle. Stateless requests use the existing
    runtime start/invoke/stop primitives rather than introducing a second runtime
    registry or manual harness-state reset behavior.
  • Tie streaming cleanup to response delivery. The ephemeral runtime remains
    available while the response iterator is active and is closed on normal
    completion, error, cancellation, or client disconnect. Response teardown waits
    up to five seconds for cleanup; if cleanup takes longer, it continues in a
    shielded background task without shortening the invocation itself.
  • Preserve execution timeout semantics. Runtime startup, context entry, and
    cleanup do not consume the caller's invocation or result-waiting budget.
  • Share admission control. Stateful and one-shot invocations use the same
    concurrency limit so headerless traffic cannot bypass the deployment's
    existing capacity bound.
  • Keep deliberate sessions lifecycle-managed. This PR does not add a global
    or per-deployment session cap; explicitly created Platform sessions remain
    governed by the existing session lifecycle.
  • Preserve Studio compatibility. This PR does not change transcript shaping
    or Studio session ownership. Removing transcript replay remains scoped to a
    follow-up PR.

Type of Change

  • Code change (refactor)
  • Code change with documentation updates
  • Documentation only
  • Contributor tooling or automation
  • CI, build, or test infrastructure

Quality Gates

  • Tests added or updated for changed behavior
  • Stateful session behavior remains covered
  • Tests not applicable — justification:
  • Documentation updated for user-visible behavior
  • Documentation not applicable — justification:

Verification

  • Pull request title follows the repository's Conventional Commit format
  • Every existing commit includes an appropriate Signed-off-by: trailer
  • Branch-scoped pre-commit and pre-push hooks pass
  • Targeted tests pass, or tests are marked not applicable above
  • No secrets, API keys, or credentials are included

Targeted validation:

  • Agents plugin unit suite — 1,618 passed
  • Focused Fabric runtime, server, and session-manager suite — 95 passed
  • ty on all changed Python source and test files — passed
  • Ruff lint and formatting checks on all changed Python files — passed
  • git diff --check — passed

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for stateless one-shot and streaming requests without a session ID.
    • Session-backed requests continue reusing registered runtimes according to the session lifecycle.
    • Streaming responses now clean up resources when completed, interrupted, disconnected, or cancelled.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Runtime startup no longer reduces the available invocation timeout.
    • Runtime-start failures now return HTTP 503 responses.
    • Improved handling and logging of streaming cleanup failures without masking client disconnects.
  • Documentation

    • Documented stateless and session-backed runtime behavior.

Signed-off-by: Manjesh Mogallapalli <mmogallapall@nvidia.com>
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Stateless Fabric invocation

Layer / File(s) Summary
One-shot runtime lifecycle
plugins/nemo-agents/src/nemo_agents_plugin/fabric/runtime.py, plugins/nemo-agents/tests/unit/test_fabric_runtime.py
One-shot startup no longer consumes the invocation timeout. Streaming and non-streaming paths classify startup and cleanup errors and handle cancellation and timeouts.
Session manager execution paths
plugins/nemo-agents/src/nemo_agents_plugin/fabric/session_manager.py, plugins/nemo-agents/tests/unit/test_fabric_session_manager.py
The session manager supports unregistered one-shot invocation and streaming. Session and one-shot execution share concurrency slots. Session resolution requires an explicit session ID.
Gateway routing and streaming cleanup
plugins/nemo-agents/src/nemo_agents_plugin/fabric/server.py, plugins/nemo-agents/tests/unit/test_fabric_server.py, plugins/nemo-agents/README.md
Requests without X-Nemo-Session-Id use one-shot execution with empty caller context and no session headers. Session-backed requests retain session context and headers. Streaming cleanup continues after cancellation and is bounded by a timeout.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant FabricServer
  participant FabricSessionManager
  participant FabricRuntime
  Client->>FabricServer: Send chat completion with optional session header
  FabricServer->>FabricSessionManager: Select one-shot or session execution
  FabricSessionManager->>FabricRuntime: Start and invoke Fabric runtime
  FabricRuntime-->>FabricServer: Return result or stream
  FabricServer->>FabricRuntime: Close stream and runtime resources
  FabricServer-->>Client: Return response with optional session header
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6ce73

Headerless requests now create temporary runtimes, but startup may exceed the configured timeout in both regular and streaming requests, potentially delaying responses and retaining runtime resources longer than intended. This bounded runtime risk needs owner follow-up or explicit acceptance before merge.

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In `@plugins/nemo-agents/src/nemo_agents_plugin/fabric/runtime.py`:
- Around line 195-196: Update the runtime lifecycle handling around async with
runtime so FabricError raised by Runtime.__aenter__ is converted to
FabricRuntimeStartError before cleanup handlers can classify it as
FabricRuntimeExecutionError. Preserve the existing cleanup classification for
failures occurring after startup, and apply the correction consistently in both
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- Around line 224-228: Update _FabricStreamingResponse.__call__ so
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explicit timeout, ensuring cleanup cannot be interrupted by cancellation and
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In `@plugins/nemo-agents/src/nemo_agents_plugin/fabric/runtime.py`:
- Line 206: Update run_fabric_agent_once and stream_fabric_agent_once to create
a single deadline at the start of the one-shot lifecycle, applying its remaining
budget to runtime startup and async context entry; pass the remaining budget,
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In `@plugins/nemo-agents/src/nemo_agents_plugin/fabric/server.py`:
- Around line 204-207: Update aclose() around the asyncio.wait_for call for
close_task so non-timeout cleanup exceptions are caught, logged, and do not
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failure path so later aclose() calls do not re-raise the same stored task
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