el_runtime/ports.rs
1//! Port traits the Inference Runtime depends on (the collaborator contexts).
2
3use el_core::{Result, Token};
4use el_safety::{ChunkGuard, SafetySteerer};
5
6/// The inference engine adapter (`RuntimeAcl`). Implemented for real by Candle
7/// in the excluded adapter `el-engine-candle` (ADR-002).
8///
9/// Logits are integer milli-logits to keep the orchestrator deterministic and
10/// float-free; a real engine quantises its float logits at the ACL boundary.
11pub trait InferenceEngine {
12 /// Encode the (compressed) prompt; returns the resulting KV length.
13 fn prefill(&mut self, tokens: &[Token]) -> Result<u32>;
14 /// Produce next-token logits given the committed context.
15 fn next_logits(&mut self, committed: &[Token]) -> Vec<i32>;
16 /// The end-of-sequence token id.
17 fn eos_token(&self) -> Token;
18
19 /// Roll the engine's internal state back so its context is exactly the
20 /// prompt plus `keep_committed` generated tokens.
21 ///
22 /// The ADR-012 control loop truncates the session's committed output and KV
23 /// descriptors on a safety backtrack. A **stateful** engine (one holding a
24 /// real KV cache and position counters, e.g. a transformer) must mirror that
25 /// truncation here — otherwise it keeps serving logits from the abandoned
26 /// (unsafe) branch and never re-feeds the replacement tokens, so the rollback
27 /// is silently a no-op at the engine level.
28 ///
29 /// After `Ok(())`, the next [`next_logits`](Self::next_logits) call — passed a
30 /// `committed` slice of length `keep_committed` — must produce logits
31 /// consistent with that prefix. Returning `Err` makes the loop fail closed
32 /// rather than resume on an inconsistent cache.
33 ///
34 /// This method is **required, with no default**, deliberately: a default
35 /// no-op would let a stateful adapter that forgot to override silently resume
36 /// on a stale KV cache — a safety bug that fails *open*. Every engine must
37 /// make the choice explicit. A stateless engine whose `next_logits`
38 /// recomputes purely from `committed` implements it as `Ok(())`.
39 fn rollback(&mut self, keep_committed: u32) -> Result<()>;
40
41 /// Return the engine to its **pristine, pre-prefill** state so the same
42 /// loaded weights can serve a *new conversation* without being reloaded
43 /// (ADR-018). After `Ok(())`, the next [`prefill`](Self::prefill) must build a
44 /// KV cache from scratch as if the engine had just been constructed.
45 ///
46 /// This is distinct from [`rollback`](Self::rollback): `rollback(keep)` rewinds
47 /// *within* a generation to a safe prefix of length `keep` (ADR-012);
48 /// `reset_cache` discards the whole conversation. It is what lets a provider
49 /// hold one resident model and reuse it across turns instead of re-reading the
50 /// weights from disk every call.
51 ///
52 /// Like `rollback`, it is **required with no default**: a stateful adapter that
53 /// forgot to override would otherwise carry a stale cache into the next
54 /// conversation. A stateless engine whose `next_logits` recomputes purely from
55 /// `committed` implements it as `Ok(())`.
56 fn reset_cache(&mut self) -> Result<()>;
57
58 /// Prefill `full_context`, **reusing the KV already cached for its longest
59 /// matching prefix** and feeding only the divergent suffix — cross-turn
60 /// incremental prefill (ADR-018 AC-3). Returns the resulting KV length.
61 ///
62 /// This is the engine half of [`InferenceSession::continue_prompt`]: on a
63 /// follow-up turn the whole conversation is re-rendered and re-tokenized, but a
64 /// stateful engine that still holds the prior turn's KV can skip re-encoding the
65 /// unchanged prefix. The token-level prefix match against the live cache **is**
66 /// the tokenizer-round-trip guard — if the re-tokenized context diverges from
67 /// what was cached (decode→encode is not always identity), reuse stops at the
68 /// divergence and the suffix is fed fresh.
69 ///
70 /// **Soundness contract.** After `Ok`, the engine MUST be in the exact state a
71 /// `reset_cache()` + `prefill(full_context)` would have left it — identical
72 /// logits for any subsequent [`next_logits`](Self::next_logits). Reuse is purely
73 /// a compute optimisation; it must never change *what* the cache represents, so
74 /// the runtime's safety checks (which re-run over `full_context` every turn) see
75 /// identical data.
76 ///
77 /// Unlike [`rollback`](Self::rollback)/[`reset_cache`](Self::reset_cache), a wrong
78 /// implementation here is a correctness/perf regression, not a safety
79 /// fail-*open* — so this has a **safe default**: discard the cache and re-prefill
80 /// the whole context (no reuse). Stateful engines override it for the fast path;
81 /// stateless engines (whose `next_logits` recomputes from `committed`) inherit
82 /// the default unchanged.
83 fn prefill_reuse(&mut self, full_context: &[Token]) -> Result<u32> {
84 self.reset_cache()?;
85 self.prefill(full_context)
86 }
87}
88
89/// Prompt Compression port (LLMLingua-2 — context 2).
90pub trait PromptCompressor {
91 fn compress(&self, tokens: &[Token]) -> Vec<Token>;
92}
93
94/// Grammar Constraint port (llguidance — context 4). Returns a per-token allow
95/// mask of length `vocab`; `true` = legal this step.
96pub trait GrammarMasker {
97 fn mask(&self, recent: &[Token], vocab: usize) -> Vec<bool>;
98}
99
100/// Opt-in LAN relay (ADR-004 HybridMode). Implementations MUST stay on the local
101/// network — there is no cloud variant.
102pub trait HybridRelay {
103 fn consult(&self, query_tokens: &[Token]) -> Vec<Token>;
104}
105
106/// The collaborator ports bound to a session. `relay` is `None` by default —
107/// air-gapped.
108pub struct Ports {
109 pub compressor: Box<dyn PromptCompressor>,
110 pub grammar: Box<dyn GrammarMasker>,
111 pub safety: Box<dyn SafetySteerer>,
112 /// Optional chunk guard for the checkpointed-rollback control loop
113 /// (ADR-012). `None` runs the plain single-pass decode.
114 pub guard: Option<Box<dyn ChunkGuard>>,
115 /// Optional **ingress / prompt-risk triage** (ADR-013): scores the prompt
116 /// before generation. Reuses the [`ChunkGuard`] contract — it scores a token
117 /// window for risk — applied to the prompt rather than the output. `None`
118 /// runs no ingress check.
119 pub ingress: Option<Box<dyn ChunkGuard>>,
120 pub relay: Option<Box<dyn HybridRelay>>,
121}
122
123impl Ports {
124 /// Defaults: identity compression, all-tokens-allowed grammar, no safety
125 /// steering, no guard, no ingress, no relay (air-gapped).
126 pub fn permissive() -> Self {
127 Self {
128 compressor: Box::new(super::defaults::IdentityCompressor),
129 grammar: Box::new(super::defaults::AllowAllMasker),
130 safety: Box::new(el_safety::NoSafety),
131 guard: None,
132 ingress: None,
133 relay: None,
134 }
135 }
136}