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Summary

  • Documents request_type values available to routing-rule CEL expressions.
  • Adds a sibling-rule pattern that keeps count_tokens requests on the primary provider while allowing generation traffic to use fallbacks.

Why

count_tokens requests include prompt content and return only a token count. When they reuse generation fallback rules, a primary-provider failure can send the token-count request to another provider and return a tokenizer count for a different provider/model without making that fallback obvious to clients.

Testing

  • git diff --check
  • npx --yes mintlify@latest broken-links (runs, but currently fails on existing unrelated broken links and OpenAPI external $ref validation; no failures were reported for docs/providers/routing-rules.mdx)

Closes #6739

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  • Documentation
    • Documented normalized request types, including streaming, reranking, OCR, speech, and token-count requests.
    • Added guidance for routing token-count requests separately from generation requests, keeping them on the primary provider without fallbacks.
    • Updated use-case numbering for consistency.

Walkthrough

The routing rules documentation now defines normalized request_type values and shows how to route token-count requests without fallbacks. Later use-case headings were renumbered to account for the new example.

Changes

Routing Rules Documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Normalized request type reference
docs/providers/routing-rules.mdx
The documentation lists normalized request types, streaming variants, and mappings for chat, responses, embeddings, token counting, reranking, OCR, image generation, speech, and transcription.
Count-token routing example
docs/providers/routing-rules.mdx
A new example separates token-count routing from generation routing. The token-count rule uses no fallbacks, while the generation rule excludes count_tokens and retains Azure fallback behavior. Subsequent use-case headings are renumbered.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e0cd4

The documentation example should omit fallbacks from the count_tokens rule to match the routing contract and avoid misleading users configuring token-count routing. This is a bounded, non-blocking follow-up before merge.

Suggested reviewers: pratham-mishra04, impoiler

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Description check ⚠️ Warning The description explains the purpose, rationale, testing, and related issue, but it omits most template sections, including Changes, Type of change, Affected areas, Breaking changes, Security consider… Complete the repository template by adding the missing sections and marking the applicable options. State that this is a documentation change affecting Docs, confirm whether it introduces breaking changes, address security considerations, a…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the documentation change and the count_tokens routing guard, which matches the main pull request objective.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The documentation fulfills issue #6739 by documenting request_type values, including count_tokens, and showing the guarded sibling-rule pattern that prevents count_tokens fallback walks while preservi…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The pull request changes only docs/providers/routing-rules.mdx. The changes directly support issue #6739 and do not introduce unrelated code or documentation changes.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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Complete the repository template by adding the missing sections and marking the applicable options. State that this is a documentation change affecting Docs, confirm whether it introduces breaking changes, address security considerations, and complete the checklist.

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Explanation

The documentation fulfills issue #6739 by documenting request_type values, including count_tokens, and showing the guarded sibling-rule pattern that prevents count_tokens fallback walks while preserving direct provider-qualified counts.

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No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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In `@docs/providers/routing-rules.mdx`:
- Line 608: Remove the fallbacks property from the count_tokens rule in the
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"targets": [
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Omit fallbacks from the token-count rule.

This example sets "fallbacks": [] on the count_tokens rule. The routing contract specifies that this sibling rule targets the primary provider and omits fallbacks. Remove this field from the first rule. Keep fallbacks on the generation rule.

As per path instructions, transports/config.schema.json specifies that the sibling count_tokens rule should target the primary provider and omit fallbacks.

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         "targets": [
           { "provider": "openai", "model": "gpt-4o", "weight": 1 }
         ],
-        "fallbacks": [],
         "scope": "global",
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"fallbacks": [],
"targets": [
{ "provider": "openai", "model": "gpt-4o", "weight": 1 }
],
"scope": "global",
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In `@docs/providers/routing-rules.mdx` at line 608, Remove the fallbacks property
from the count_tokens rule in the routing-rules example, while preserving
fallbacks on the generation rule.

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[Feature]: Exclude count_tokens from routing-rule fallback walks by default (or document the request_type guard)

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