fix(complexity-router): scope the Nadir key, inject the client, correct the docs

Addresses the Greptile review and aligns the plugin with the nadir/ provider
that landed in #33227.

- NADIR_API_KEY only goes to the base the environment names (NADIR_API_BASE,
  else the hosted API), the same rule the provider applies. An api_base set in
  code brings its own api_key.
- Reads NADIR_API_KEY / NADIR_API_BASE through get_secret_str and reuses
  NADIR_DEFAULT_API_BASE from litellm.constants instead of a second default.
- The HTTP client is injected (defaults to the shared async client), so the
  tests pass a fake instead of patching get_async_httpx_client.
- The verdict is read with a match on the parsed body.
- Docs: tier_labels routers need no tier_map, since the router still accepts
  the default names; only tier_definitions routers build their own instance.
  States what a keyed account keeps and that the anonymous limit is sized for
  evaluation, drops "stored nowhere" and the "not an LLM call" wording, and
  uses current example models.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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dor 2026-09-25 05:33:55 -04:00
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@ -275,9 +275,9 @@ your provider keys, fallbacks, and spend tracking all stay on this proxy.
#### Nadir
`litellm.router_strategy.complexity_router.nadir_classifier.nadir_classifier` is a bundled
plugin that asks [Nadir](https://getnadir.com)'s `/v1/bucket` endpoint, a trained
complexity classifier rather than an LLM call, which of `simple` / `medium` / `complex` a
request is. Those map to the SIMPLE / MEDIUM / COMPLEX tiers:
plugin that asks [Nadir](https://getnadir.com)'s `/v1/bucket` endpoint which of `simple` /
`medium` / `complex` a request is. The endpoint grades the request without generating an
answer, and the three buckets map to the SIMPLE / MEDIUM / COMPLEX tiers:
```yaml
model_list:
@ -289,32 +289,41 @@ model_list:
classifier_plugin: litellm.router_strategy.complexity_router.nadir_classifier.nadir_classifier
classifier_fallback: heuristic
tiers:
SIMPLE: gpt-4o-mini
MEDIUM: gpt-4o
COMPLEX: o1-preview
SIMPLE: gpt-5-nano
MEDIUM: gpt-5-mini
COMPLEX: gpt-5
```
`NADIR_API_KEY` attributes decisions to an account and lifts the anonymous rate limit;
without it the endpoint still answers, burst-limited per IP and stored nowhere.
`NADIR_API_BASE` points at a self-hosted or on-prem Nadir instead of the hosted API.
`NADIR_API_KEY` attributes decisions to a Nadir account and lifts the anonymous rate limit.
That account's request log then keeps the user text of each classified request, or only a
hash of it when the account has prompt storage turned off. Without a key the endpoint still
answers and keeps no prompt, but its per-IP rate limit is sized for trying the plugin out,
and requests over it route on `classifier_fallback`.
A router whose tiers are renamed with `tier_labels`, or defined with `tier_definitions`,
constructs the classifier with the matching names instead of using the module instance:
`NADIR_API_BASE` points at a self-hosted or on-prem Nadir instead of the hosted API.
`NADIR_API_KEY` is only sent to that base, or to the hosted API when it is unset.
Renaming the tiers with `tier_labels` needs no change here: the router still accepts the
default tier names the plugin returns. A router built on `tier_definitions` names its own
tiers, so point `classifier_plugin` at an instance of your own that maps Nadir's buckets
onto them:
```python
# my_classifiers.py, named in the config as my_classifiers.nadir
from litellm.router_strategy.complexity_router.nadir_classifier import NadirComplexityClassifier
classifier = NadirComplexityClassifier(tier_map={"simple": "Cheap", "medium": "Standard", "complex": "Premium"})
nadir = NadirComplexityClassifier(tier_map={"simple": "cheap", "medium": "standard", "complex": "premium"})
```
Two properties to weigh against the local scorers. The classification is a network call, so
it costs a round trip per request where `heuristic` and `heuristic_v2` cost under a
millisecond (a laptop against the hosted API measured about 160ms warm, and the first call
in a fresh process also pays connection setup; anything that overruns
`classifier_plugin_timeout_ms` routes on the fallback instead of waiting). And the messages are sent to the configured Nadir host, which is a third party
unless that host is yours, the same disclosure `classifier_type: llm` carries when the
classifier model is a hosted one. A REASONING tier is never returned, since Nadir grades
three buckets; keyword rules and the reasoning override still place requests there.
`classifier_plugin_timeout_ms` routes on the fallback instead of waiting). And the messages
are sent to the configured Nadir host, which is a third party unless that host is yours, the
same disclosure `classifier_type: llm` carries when the classifier model is a hosted one. A
REASONING tier is never returned, since Nadir grades three buckets; keyword rules and the
reasoning override still place requests there.
### Renaming the tiers

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@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ Nadir as the Complexity Router's classifier.
A decision-only integration: the tier comes from a call to Nadir's ``/v1/bucket``
endpoint, and everything else stays here. The tier's model pool, the provider call, the
operator's own provider keys, fallbacks, spend tracking and the response path are
untouched, so Nadir sees the messages it is asked to classify and never the completion.
untouched, so Nadir sees the messages it is asked to classify and never the response.
``/v1/bucket`` runs a trained complexity classifier (a fine-tuned encoder, not an LLM
call) and answers ``simple`` / ``medium`` / ``complex``, which map to the router's
default SIMPLE / MEDIUM / COMPLEX tiers. A router whose tiers are renamed with
``tier_labels``, or defined with ``tier_definitions``, passes its own names as
``tier_map``.
``/v1/bucket`` grades the request without generating an answer and replies ``simple`` /
``medium`` / ``complex``, which map to the router's default SIMPLE / MEDIUM / COMPLEX
tiers. Renaming the tiers with ``tier_labels`` needs nothing here, since the router still
accepts the default names. A router built on ``tier_definitions`` names its own tiers, so
it constructs its own instance with a ``tier_map`` onto them.
Configure it in the proxy by pointing ``classifier_plugin`` at the module-level
instance::
@ -23,17 +23,24 @@ instance::
classifier_type: custom
classifier_plugin: litellm.router_strategy.complexity_router.nadir_classifier.nadir_classifier
tiers:
SIMPLE: gpt-4o-mini
MEDIUM: gpt-4o
COMPLEX: o1-preview
SIMPLE: gpt-5-nano
MEDIUM: gpt-5-mini
COMPLEX: gpt-5
``NADIR_API_KEY`` attributes the decision to an account and lifts the anonymous rate
limit; without it the endpoint still answers, burst-limited per IP and stored nowhere.
``NADIR_API_BASE`` overrides the host for a self-hosted or on-prem deployment.
``NADIR_API_KEY`` attributes decisions to a Nadir account and lifts the anonymous rate
limit. That account's request log then keeps the user text of each classified request, or
only a hash of it when the account has prompt storage turned off. Without a key the
endpoint still answers and keeps no prompt, but its per-IP rate limit is sized for trying
the plugin out, and requests over it route on ``classifier_fallback``.
``NADIR_API_BASE`` points at a self-hosted or on-prem Nadir. ``NADIR_API_KEY`` is only
ever sent to that base, or to the hosted API when it is unset: an ``api_base`` passed in
code brings its own ``api_key``.
Every failure mode is the router's existing one: this returns None to decline, and a
network error, a timeout past ``classifier_plugin_timeout_ms`` or an unknown bucket all
hand the request to ``classifier_fallback``. Nothing here can fail a completion.
network error, an error status, a timeout past ``classifier_plugin_timeout_ms`` or an
unknown bucket all hand the request to ``classifier_fallback``. Nothing here can fail a
completion.
Privacy note for operators: the messages are sent to the configured Nadir host, which is
a third party unless that host is your own. That is the same disclosure a remote LLM
@ -42,17 +49,16 @@ classifier carries, and it is the reason the local heuristic scorers exist.
from __future__ import annotations
import os
from collections.abc import Mapping
from types import MappingProxyType
from typing import Final
from litellm.llms.custom_httpx.http_handler import get_async_httpx_client
from litellm.constants import NADIR_DEFAULT_API_BASE
from litellm.llms.custom_httpx.http_handler import AsyncHTTPHandler, get_async_httpx_client
from litellm.secret_managers.main import get_secret_str
from litellm.types.llms.custom_http import httpxSpecialProvider
from litellm.types.router import RoutingContext
DEFAULT_NADIR_API_BASE: Final = "https://api.getnadir.com"
DEFAULT_TIER_MAP: Final[Mapping[str, str]] = MappingProxyType(
{"simple": "SIMPLE", "medium": "MEDIUM", "complex": "COMPLEX"}
)
@ -72,14 +78,23 @@ def _bucket_url(api_base: str) -> str:
return f"{base}{_API_PATH}"
def _configured_bucket_url() -> str:
"""The endpoint the environment names: ``NADIR_API_BASE``, else the hosted API."""
return _bucket_url(get_secret_str("NADIR_API_BASE") or NADIR_DEFAULT_API_BASE)
class NadirComplexityClassifier:
"""Classifier plugin that asks Nadir's decision API which tier a request belongs to.
Args:
api_base: Nadir host. Defaults to ``NADIR_API_BASE``, then to the hosted API.
api_key: Nadir API key. Defaults to ``NADIR_API_KEY``; anonymous when unset.
api_key: Nadir API key. Defaults to ``NADIR_API_KEY`` only when the request goes to the
host the environment names, so the environment key never follows an ``api_base``
set in code; anonymous otherwise.
tier_map: Nadir bucket name -> the tier name this router routes on. Defaults to the
router's built-in tier names.
client: HTTP client the request goes out on. Defaults to litellm's shared async client.
Leave it unset on an instance a proxy config names, since the proxy deepcopies it.
"""
def __init__(
@ -87,9 +102,11 @@ class NadirComplexityClassifier:
api_base: str | None = None,
api_key: str | None = None,
tier_map: Mapping[str, str] | None = None,
client: AsyncHTTPHandler | None = None,
) -> None:
self._api_base: Final = api_base
self._api_key: Final = api_key
self._client: Final = client
# A plain dict, not a MappingProxyType: the proxy deepcopies a deployment's
# litellm_params, this instance travels inside them, and a mappingproxy cannot be
# deepcopied. Router construction would fail before the first request.
@ -97,32 +114,31 @@ class NadirComplexityClassifier:
DEFAULT_TIER_MAP if tier_map is None else tier_map
)
def _headers(self) -> dict[str, str]:
api_key: Final = self._api_key or os.getenv("NADIR_API_KEY")
def _headers(self, url: str) -> dict[str, str]:
env_key: Final = get_secret_str("NADIR_API_KEY") if url == _configured_bucket_url() else None
api_key: Final = self._api_key or env_key
return {"X-API-Key": api_key} if api_key else {} # mutable-ok: request headers, handed straight to httpx
async def classify(self, context: RoutingContext) -> str | None:
"""Return the tier Nadir places this request in, or None to decline.
Declines rather than guesses on anything the endpoint cannot grade: a request with no
messages, and a bucket name outside ``tier_map`` (which is what a renamed tier set looks
like before ``tier_map`` is configured). Both leave the decision to ``classifier_fallback``,
where a local scorer still routes the request.
messages, and a bucket name outside ``tier_map`` (which is what a ``tier_definitions``
router looks like before ``tier_map`` is configured). Both leave the decision to
``classifier_fallback``, where a local scorer still routes the request.
"""
messages: Final = context.structured_messages or context.raw_messages
if not messages:
return None
api_base: Final = self._api_base or os.getenv("NADIR_API_BASE") or DEFAULT_NADIR_API_BASE
client: Final = get_async_httpx_client(llm_provider=httpxSpecialProvider.ComplexityClassifier)
url: Final = _bucket_url(self._api_base) if self._api_base else _configured_bucket_url()
client: Final = self._client or get_async_httpx_client(llm_provider=httpxSpecialProvider.ComplexityClassifier)
body: Final = {"messages": list(messages), "source": "litellm"} # mutable-ok: one request body
response: Final = await client.post(url=_bucket_url(api_base), json=body, headers=self._headers())
payload: Final = response.json()
if not isinstance(payload, Mapping):
return None
bucket: Final = payload.get("bucket")
if not isinstance(bucket, str):
return None
return self._tier_map.get(bucket.strip().lower())
response: Final = await client.post(url=url, json=body, headers=self._headers(url))
match response.json():
case {"bucket": str(bucket)}:
return self._tier_map.get(bucket.strip().lower())
case _:
return None
nadir_classifier: Final = NadirComplexityClassifier()

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@ -6,13 +6,14 @@ import pytest
from litellm.router_strategy.complexity_router import ComplexityRouter
from litellm.router_strategy.complexity_router.nadir_classifier import (
DEFAULT_NADIR_API_BASE,
NadirComplexityClassifier,
_bucket_url,
nadir_classifier,
)
from litellm.types.router import ClassifierPlugin, RoutingContext
HOSTED_BUCKET_URL = "https://api.getnadir.com/v1/bucket"
class _FakeResponse:
def __init__(self, payload):
@ -37,19 +38,6 @@ class _FakeClient:
return _FakeResponse(self._payload)
@pytest.fixture
def fake_client(monkeypatch):
def _install(payload=None, error=None):
client = _FakeClient(payload=payload, error=error)
monkeypatch.setattr(
"litellm.router_strategy.complexity_router.nadir_classifier.get_async_httpx_client",
lambda llm_provider: client,
)
return client
return _install
def _context(messages=None):
resolved = [{"role": "user", "content": "refactor the retry loop"}] if messages is None else messages
return RoutingContext(
@ -73,7 +61,7 @@ class TestBucketURL:
)
def test_v1_is_never_doubled(self, api_base):
"""Nadir's docs advertise the base URL with /v1, so operators paste it with and without."""
assert _bucket_url(api_base) == "https://api.getnadir.com/v1/bucket"
assert _bucket_url(api_base) == HOSTED_BUCKET_URL
def test_self_hosted_host_with_a_path_prefix_is_preserved(self):
assert _bucket_url("https://gateway.internal/nadir") == "https://gateway.internal/nadir/v1/bucket"
@ -84,60 +72,92 @@ class TestClassify:
@pytest.mark.parametrize(
("bucket", "expected_tier"), [("simple", "SIMPLE"), ("medium", "MEDIUM"), ("complex", "COMPLEX")]
)
async def test_each_bucket_maps_to_its_default_tier(self, fake_client, bucket, expected_tier):
client = fake_client(payload={"bucket": bucket, "confidence": 0.91})
assert await NadirComplexityClassifier().classify(_context()) == expected_tier
assert client.calls[0]["url"] == f"{DEFAULT_NADIR_API_BASE}/v1/bucket"
async def test_each_bucket_maps_to_its_default_tier(self, bucket, expected_tier):
client = _FakeClient(payload={"bucket": bucket, "confidence": 0.91})
assert await NadirComplexityClassifier(client=client).classify(_context()) == expected_tier
assert client.calls[0]["url"] == HOSTED_BUCKET_URL
assert client.calls[0]["json"]["messages"] == [{"role": "user", "content": "refactor the retry loop"}]
assert client.calls[0]["json"]["source"] == "litellm"
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_tier_map_override_serves_renamed_tiers(self, fake_client):
"""tier_labels/tier_definitions rename the tiers; the plugin must answer in the router's names."""
fake_client(payload={"bucket": "complex"})
classifier = NadirComplexityClassifier(tier_map={"simple": "cheap", "medium": "mid", "complex": "deep"})
async def test_tier_map_override_serves_custom_tier_names(self):
"""A tier_definitions router names its own tiers; tier_map must answer in those names."""
classifier = NadirComplexityClassifier(
tier_map={"simple": "cheap", "medium": "mid", "complex": "deep"},
client=_FakeClient(payload={"bucket": "complex"}),
)
assert await classifier.classify(_context()) == "deep"
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_api_key_is_sent_when_configured(self, fake_client):
client = fake_client(payload={"bucket": "simple"})
await NadirComplexityClassifier(api_key="ndr_test").classify(_context())
async def test_api_key_is_sent_when_configured(self):
client = _FakeClient(payload={"bucket": "simple"})
await NadirComplexityClassifier(api_key="ndr_test", client=client).classify(_context())
assert client.calls[0]["headers"] == {"X-API-Key": "ndr_test"}
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_env_supplies_key_and_base(self, fake_client, monkeypatch):
client = fake_client(payload={"bucket": "simple"})
async def test_env_supplies_key_and_base(self, monkeypatch):
client = _FakeClient(payload={"bucket": "simple"})
monkeypatch.setenv("NADIR_API_KEY", "ndr_from_env")
monkeypatch.setenv("NADIR_API_BASE", "https://nadir.internal")
await NadirComplexityClassifier().classify(_context())
await NadirComplexityClassifier(client=client).classify(_context())
assert client.calls[0]["headers"] == {"X-API-Key": "ndr_from_env"}
assert client.calls[0]["url"] == "https://nadir.internal/v1/bucket"
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_anonymous_when_no_key_is_configured(self, fake_client, monkeypatch):
client = fake_client(payload={"bucket": "simple"})
monkeypatch.delenv("NADIR_API_KEY", raising=False)
await NadirComplexityClassifier().classify(_context())
async def test_env_key_never_follows_a_base_set_in_code(self, monkeypatch):
"""The environment names where NADIR_API_KEY may go; an api_base set in code brings its own key."""
client = _FakeClient(payload={"bucket": "simple"})
monkeypatch.setenv("NADIR_API_KEY", "ndr_from_env")
monkeypatch.delenv("NADIR_API_BASE", raising=False)
await NadirComplexityClassifier(api_base="https://elsewhere.example", client=client).classify(_context())
assert client.calls[0]["url"] == "https://elsewhere.example/v1/bucket"
assert client.calls[0]["headers"] == {}
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_no_messages_declines_without_a_call(self, fake_client):
async def test_env_key_goes_to_the_hosted_api_named_in_code(self, monkeypatch):
"""Naming the hosted base in code, with or without /v1, is still the base the environment trusts."""
client = _FakeClient(payload={"bucket": "simple"})
monkeypatch.setenv("NADIR_API_KEY", "ndr_from_env")
monkeypatch.delenv("NADIR_API_BASE", raising=False)
await NadirComplexityClassifier(api_base="https://api.getnadir.com/v1", client=client).classify(_context())
assert client.calls[0]["headers"] == {"X-API-Key": "ndr_from_env"}
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_a_base_set_in_code_sends_its_own_key(self, monkeypatch):
client = _FakeClient(payload={"bucket": "simple"})
monkeypatch.setenv("NADIR_API_KEY", "ndr_from_env")
classifier = NadirComplexityClassifier(
api_base="https://nadir.onprem.internal", api_key="ndr_own", client=client
)
await classifier.classify(_context())
assert client.calls[0]["headers"] == {"X-API-Key": "ndr_own"}
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_anonymous_when_no_key_is_configured(self, monkeypatch):
client = _FakeClient(payload={"bucket": "simple"})
monkeypatch.delenv("NADIR_API_KEY", raising=False)
await NadirComplexityClassifier(client=client).classify(_context())
assert client.calls[0]["headers"] == {}
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_no_messages_declines_without_a_call(self):
"""An empty request is a 400 from the endpoint; decline locally instead of spending the trip."""
client = fake_client(payload={"bucket": "simple"})
assert await NadirComplexityClassifier().classify(_context(messages=[])) is None
client = _FakeClient(payload={"bucket": "simple"})
assert await NadirComplexityClassifier(client=client).classify(_context(messages=[])) is None
assert client.calls == []
@pytest.mark.asyncio
@pytest.mark.parametrize("payload", [{"bucket": "reasoning"}, {"bucket": None}, {}, ["not", "a", "mapping"]])
async def test_unusable_verdicts_decline(self, fake_client, payload):
@pytest.mark.parametrize(
"payload", [{"bucket": "reasoning"}, {"bucket": None}, {"bucket": 3}, {}, ["not", "a", "mapping"]]
)
async def test_unusable_verdicts_decline(self, payload):
"""Anything outside tier_map is declined, so classifier_fallback decides rather than this guessing."""
fake_client(payload=payload)
assert await NadirComplexityClassifier().classify(_context()) is None
assert await NadirComplexityClassifier(client=_FakeClient(payload=payload)).classify(_context()) is None
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_bucket_name_is_matched_case_insensitively(self, fake_client):
fake_client(payload={"bucket": " Complex "})
assert await NadirComplexityClassifier().classify(_context()) == "COMPLEX"
async def test_bucket_name_is_matched_case_insensitively(self):
classifier = NadirComplexityClassifier(client=_FakeClient(payload={"bucket": " Complex "}))
assert await classifier.classify(_context()) == "COMPLEX"
def test_module_instance_satisfies_the_plugin_protocol(self):
"""The proxy resolves the dotted path to this instance and interface-checks it at startup."""
@ -159,22 +179,22 @@ class TestDeploymentConfigSurvivesRouterInit:
class TestThroughTheComplexityRouter:
"""The plugin as the router actually drives it: verdict in, tier out, failures fall back."""
def _router(self, mock_router_instance=None, **overrides):
def _router(self, client, **overrides):
return ComplexityRouter(
model_name="test-nadir-router",
litellm_router_instance=mock_router_instance,
litellm_router_instance=None,
complexity_router_config={
"tiers": {"SIMPLE": "gpt-4o-mini", "MEDIUM": "gpt-4o", "COMPLEX": "o1-preview"},
"classifier_type": "custom",
"classifier_plugin": NadirComplexityClassifier(),
"classifier_plugin": NadirComplexityClassifier(client=client),
**overrides,
},
)
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_verdict_becomes_the_routed_tier(self, fake_client):
fake_client(payload={"bucket": "complex"})
outcome = await self._router().aclassify(
async def test_verdict_becomes_the_routed_tier(self):
router = self._router(_FakeClient(payload={"bucket": "complex"}))
outcome = await router.aclassify(
prompt="port the scheduler to the new executor",
raw_messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "port the scheduler to the new executor"}],
)
@ -182,9 +202,20 @@ class TestThroughTheComplexityRouter:
assert outcome.cause == "classifier_plugin"
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_network_failure_falls_back_to_the_local_scorer(self, fake_client):
async def test_renamed_tier_labels_need_no_tier_map(self):
"""tier_labels only renames what the dashboard shows; the router still accepts the default names."""
router = self._router(
_FakeClient(payload={"bucket": "complex"}),
tier_labels={"SIMPLE": "Cheap", "MEDIUM": "Standard", "COMPLEX": "Premium"},
)
outcome = await router.aclassify(prompt="hi", raw_messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hi"}])
assert outcome.tier.value == "COMPLEX"
assert outcome.cause == "classifier_plugin"
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_network_failure_falls_back_to_the_local_scorer(self):
"""A Nadir outage must never fail a completion: the heuristic scorer still places the request."""
fake_client(error=ConnectionError("nadir unreachable"))
outcome = await self._router().aclassify(prompt="hi", raw_messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hi"}])
router = self._router(_FakeClient(error=ConnectionError("nadir unreachable")))
outcome = await router.aclassify(prompt="hi", raw_messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hi"}])
assert outcome.cause != "classifier_plugin"
assert outcome.tier is not None