feat(server): redact provider API keys from client-facing responses

[grahamking]

If the upstream provider (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) accidentally
includes our API key in a response, that would leak it to the user.
That's unlikely, but it's also usually not a problem. The person using
say Codex also owns the API key.

In our case Switchyard owns the API key, so leaking it to the user is a
big problem. QA noticed this.

Now we redact the keys in transit.

• Runner now collects provider_api_keys from DeploymentConfig at load time (and exposes with_provider_api_keys for programmatic hosts).
• A new redact_response middleware strips configured secrets from response headers and buffered JSON bodies. It skips gzip encoded bodies.
• SSE framing (sse.rs) redacts each event's data before it's written to the stream, so streamed responses don't need to be buffered.

Assisted-by: Pi:GPT 6 Astra medium
Signed-off-by: Graham King grahamk@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added automatic protection for provider API credentials in server responses.
  • Credentials are removed from response headers, JSON payloads, and streamed SSE events, including escaped representations.
  • Protection applies consistently across supported response formats and server routes.

• Bug Fixes

  • Prevented configured provider credentials from being exposed in aggregated, streamed, or error responses.
  • Preserved compressed response bodies without attempting redaction.

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Walkthrough

The change collects provider API keys in Runner, creates shared response-redaction state, redacts buffered and streamed responses, and adds coverage for JSON, headers, SSE errors, and encoded bodies.

Changes

Provider Credential Redaction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Provider key collection crates/switchyard-runner/src/config.rs, crates/switchyard-runner/src/runner.rs	Deployment configuration collects keys from supported provider backends. Runner stores and exposes the collected keys.
Response redaction middleware crates/switchyard-server/src/lib.rs, crates/switchyard-server/src/redaction.rs	Server state creates a shared Redactor. Middleware sanitizes headers and unencoded JSON bodies, while encoded bodies pass through unchanged. Tests cover buffered responses, headers, escaped keys, SSE errors, and compressed bodies.
Streamed response redaction crates/switchyard-server/src/response.rs, crates/switchyard-server/src/sse.rs, crates/switchyard-server/src/lib.rs	HTTP response conversion passes the shared redactor to SSE framing. Event and error JSON is redacted before emission.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 9f547

Provider credentials can remain exposed in valid JSON and SSE responses, and large JSON responses can become HTTP 500 errors. These issues should be fixed before merge.

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_{I’m a rabbit guarding keys in the hay
The Redactor keeps secrets away
JSON hops clean through the gate
SSE streams shed hidden weight
Safe responses now greet the day}

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/switchyard-server/src/redaction.rs`:
- Line 99: Update the fallback proxy response handling around redactor.json so
it parses the response body into decoded JSON, recursively redacts matching
object keys and string values, and serializes the redacted value before
constructing Body. Preserve the existing behavior for non-JSON responses or
parsing failures.
- Line 28: Update Redactor::new to return Result<Self, serde_json::Error> and
propagate serialization failures with ?. In ServerState::from_runner, handle the
constructor result by mapping the error into ServerError; preserve the provider
key and fail closed rather than omitting it on failure, and remove the
unreachable! panic.
- Line 97: Update the response handling around to_bytes in the redaction
middleware so responses are not constrained by DEFAULT_MAX_REQUEST_BODY_BYTES
and valid responses larger than 32 MiB do not become HTTP 500. Preserve
fail-closed redaction behavior, and ensure the proxy_unmatched fallback does not
unnecessarily buffer reqwest::Body responses.

In `@crates/switchyard-server/src/sse.rs`:
- Line 83: Update frame_event so the event type passed to Event::event is
processed through the configured redactor before framing, matching the existing
redaction applied to the serialized event body. Ensure preserved upstream
Anthropic and OpenAI Responses event names cannot bypass redaction.

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• crates/switchyard-runner/src/config.rs
• crates/switchyard-runner/src/runner.rs
• crates/switchyard-server/src/lib.rs
• crates/switchyard-server/src/redaction.rs
• crates/switchyard-server/src/response.rs
• crates/switchyard-server/src/sse.rs

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