feat(passthrough): openai_responses protocol hint for agent traffic

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GitHub's Copilot CLI sends every inference turn to POST /responses, not /chat/completions. Neither existing protocol hint parses that envelope, so a forward-proxy route carrying terminal-agent traffic recorded it with zero tokens: the requests were authenticated, audited and attributed, but token rate limits, spend, and usage reporting all saw nothing at all.

The gap is measurable side by side on the same CLI. Through a route on /chat/completions (the CLI in BYOK mode), 123 spans all carried usage. Through the Responses route, 7 spans carried none.

openai_responses reads the Responses shapes:

• request — input, either a bare string or an array of items whose content parts hold the text;
• response — output items rather than choices;
• streaming — the response.output_text.delta events, plus the usage nested inside the terminal response.completed event. That terminal event repeats the entire output, so it is deliberately excluded from the captured text; appending it would double every streamed answer.

usage_of already accepted the input_tokens/output_tokens spelling the Responses API uses, so no change was needed there.

Verified against the live product, not a fixture: with the Copilot host route switched to openai_responses, a real Copilot CLI turn records 20854/132 tokens where the identical path previously recorded 0/0. Unit tests cover all three shapes, including that the terminal streaming event contributes usage but not text.

Follow-up to #984, same forward-proxy acceptance. Refs api7/AISIX-Cloud#1312.

Cross-plane note: this adds a value to the protocol enum, so the CP's cp-admin.yaml needs the matching enum entry (plus dashboard option and dpCompatGate row) before an operator can select it through the managed API. Tracked as the CP half of this effort.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added support for the OpenAI Responses API in passthrough routes.
  • Supports standard and structured inputs, buffered responses, streaming output text, and usage tracking.
  • Added configuration and schema support for selecting the OpenAI Responses protocol.

• Bug Fixes

  • Prevented duplicated output when processing streamed Responses API events.

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The PR adds OpenaiResponses to passthrough protocol definitions and schemas. The proxy extracts request text, buffered output, streaming deltas, and nested usage fields. Tests cover buffered and streaming Responses payloads.

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OpenAI Responses passthrough support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Protocol contract and schema support crates/aisix-core/src/models/passthrough_route.rs, crates/aisix-core/src/models/schema.rs, schemas/resources/passthrough_route.schema.json	Adds PassthroughProtocol::OpenaiResponses and documents the openai_responses protocol value and payload shapes.
Buffered request and response extraction crates/aisix-proxy/src/passthrough_route.rs	Extracts request text from string or structured input, extracts response text from output, and reads Responses token usage.
Streaming extraction and tests crates/aisix-proxy/src/passthrough_route.rs	Collects output_text.delta events, reads terminal nested usage, avoids duplicated terminal output, and tests buffered and streaming behavior.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b8bb8

The PR adds OpenAI Responses support, but its current stream handling can misattribute token usage from non-Responses traffic, leading to incorrect limits, spend, and usage reporting. This concrete correctness issue should be fixed before merge; the related public documentation also needs correction.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant aisix_proxy_passthrough_route
  participant OpenAI_Responses_API
  Client->>aisix_proxy_passthrough_route: Send Responses request
  aisix_proxy_passthrough_route->>OpenAI_Responses_API: Forward request
  OpenAI_Responses_API-->>aisix_proxy_passthrough_route: Return buffered or streaming response
  aisix_proxy_passthrough_route-->>Client: Return response and extracted usage

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• api7/aisix#982: Introduced the passthrough protocol enum and protocol-aware parsing extended by this PR.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
E2e Test Quality Review	⚠️ Warning	The PR adds only in-module Rust unit tests; no E2E test references openai_responses. The proxy-to-upstream flow and end-to-end usage accounting remain untested.	Add an E2E case that seeds an openai_responses route, sends buffered and SSE /responses traffic through the proxy, and asserts upstream output plus recorded usage.

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In `@crates/aisix-core/src/models/passthrough_route.rs`:
- Around line 212-218: Update the OpenaiResponses description to remain public
protocol-reference text: describe the Responses API envelope and streamed
response.output_text.delta events, but remove the Copilot CLI operational
assertion and any claim that openai_chat traffic records zero tokens. Apply the
same corrected description in crates/aisix-core/src/models/passthrough_route.rs
lines 212-218 and schemas/resources/passthrough_route.schema.json lines 469-474.

In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/passthrough_route.rs`:
- Around line 1324-1331: Guard the nested response.usage extraction in the usage
assignment logic with PassthroughProtocol::OpenaiResponses, so Raw and chat
protocols cannot overwrite usage from that shape; retain existing extraction for
Responses streams and add a regression case confirming nested usage is ignored
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