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This PR adds a proof-of-concept plugin example that serves Voice Live realtime models (gpt-realtime, phi4-mm-realtime) over the existing GET /v1/realtime endpoint anyway, using only the HTTP transport plugin hooks. It is an examples-only change: no core, transport or provider code is touched.

The purpose is to establish whether plugin-side realtime is viable at all before committing to a native provider, and to serve as a working reference for the Voice Live wire protocol.

Changes

  • examples/plugins/voicelive-realtime/ — new standalone example module (main.go, main_test.go, go.mod, Makefile, README.md).

How it works. An HTTP-to-WebSocket upgrade is a 101 response plus a hijack of the underlying TCP socket, and HTTPTransportPreHook runs inside the per-request goroutine that owns the connection. WithPluginScope copies the *fasthttp.RequestCtx into the scoped context's parent while leaving the scoped value map empty, so GetParentCtxWithUserValues() returns it unwrapped:

rctx, ok := ctx.GetParentCtxWithUserValues().(*fasthttp.RequestCtx)

The plugin completes the upgrade itself, returns &schemas.HTTPResponse{StatusCode: 101} with nil Headers/Body (so applyHTTPResponseToCtx can only re-set the status and cannot clobber the handshake), and relays frames to Voice Live in both directions from the hijacked goroutine.

Type of change

  • Bug fix
  • Feature
  • Refactor
  • Documentation
  • Chore/CI

Affected areas

  • Core (Go)
  • Transports (HTTP)
  • Providers/Integrations
  • Plugins
  • UI (React)
  • Docs

Examples only — no existing Go package is modified.

How to test

cd examples/plugins/voicelive-realtime

# Unit + integration tests: a real WebSocket client against a fake Voice Live
# server, through a faithful replica of TransportInterceptorMiddleware.
GOWORK=off go test ./... -v

# Build the plugin
make build   # -> build/voicelive-realtime.so

Expected: all tests pass and the .so builds.

Coverage:

  • TestRequestCtxIsReachableFromPluginScope — asserts the plugin-scoped context still yields the live *fasthttp.RequestCtx. The entire approach depends on this, so it fails loudly if that ever changes.
  • TestVoiceLiveRealtimeProxy — claims gpt-realtime; relays text and binary frames with message types preserved; claims azure/phi4-mm-realtime with the provider prefix stripped; asserts the upstream path, api-version/model query params and api-key header; verifies unclaimed models fall through to the native handler; verifies non-realtime requests are ignored.
  • TestUpstreamURLShape — upstream URL construction, including intent propagation and scheme defaulting.

Manual, against a real Azure resource:

# Claimed by the plugin
websocat "ws://localhost:8080/v1/realtime?model=gpt-realtime" -H "Authorization: Bearer $BIFROST_KEY"

# Not claimed -> Bifrost's native realtime handler, unchanged
websocat "ws://localhost:8080/v1/realtime?model=openai/gpt-4o-realtime-preview" -H "Authorization: Bearer $BIFROST_KEY"

New configuration

Plugin config (all under the plugin's config block; no new environment variables or global config):

Option Type Default Description
endpoint string — Required. Azure AI resource root. http(s) is rewritten to ws(s).
api_key SecretVar — Required. Literal, env.NAME, or vault.path/to/secret. Sent as the api-key header.
api_version string 2025-10-01 Voice Live api-version. Verify against your resource.
models string[] ["gpt-realtime", "phi4-mm-realtime"] Models this plugin claims; everything else falls through.
max_connections integer 100 Concurrent plugin-owned connections.
allowed_origins string[] same-host Origin allowlist; ["*"] allows any.
dial_timeout_seconds integer 10 Upstream handshake timeout.
idle_timeout_seconds integer 300 Read deadline on both sockets.

Screenshots/Recordings

N/A — no UI changes.

Breaking changes

  • Yes
  • No

Nothing outside examples/ is touched. The plugin is opt-in, and realtime upgrades for models it does not claim are served by the existing handler unchanged.

Related issues

N/A

Security considerations

  • Auth is preserved. HTTPTransportPreHook runs after the transport's auth middlewares, so a hijacked upgrade is already authenticated by Bifrost.
  • Governance is not. Budgets and rate limits are resolved in PreRequestHook, which this path short-circuits past, so they do not apply to claimed connections. This is called out in the README and is why the PR is scoped as a PoC rather than a production path. It should not carry billed multi-tenant traffic as-is.
  • Secrets. The upstream key is a *schemas.SecretVar, so it supports env./vault. references. The caller's own credential is never forwarded upstream. Log lines strip the query string from the upstream URL.
  • Resource exhaustion. Hijacked sockets are invisible to bfws.SessionManager, so the plugin enforces max_connections itself, plus dial and idle timeouts on both sockets.
  • CSRF/origin. The upgrade is gated by a configurable Origin allowlist, defaulting to the library's safe same-host behaviour.
  • Undocumented dependency. Recovering the RequestCtx via GetParentCtxWithUserValues() relies on WithPluginScope leaving the scoped value map empty. That is not a documented guarantee; a guard test catches regressions, and the plugin fails closed with a 503 rather than passing the request to a handler that cannot serve Voice Live.

Checklist

  • I read docs/contributing/README.md and followed the guidelines
  • I added/updated tests where appropriate
  • I updated documentation where needed
  • I verified builds succeed (Go and UI)
  • I verified the CI pipeline passes locally if applicable

Adds a proof-of-concept plugin that serves Azure AI Voice Live realtime
models (gpt-realtime, phi4-mm-realtime) over the existing GET /v1/realtime
endpoint using only the HTTP transport plugin hooks.

An HTTP-to-WebSocket upgrade is a 101 response plus a hijack of the
underlying TCP socket, and HTTPTransportPreHook runs inside the per-request
goroutine that owns the connection. WithPluginScope copies the fasthttp
RequestCtx into the scoped context's parent while leaving the scoped value
map empty, so GetParentCtxWithUserValues returns it unwrapped and the plugin
can complete the upgrade itself. It then relays frames to Voice Live in both
directions. Models the plugin does not claim return (nil, nil) and reach the
native realtime handler unchanged.

This is deliberately scoped as a PoC. Short-circuiting at the transport layer
means core never sees these connections, so governance, logging, telemetry
and cost tracking do not apply; auth still does, since the hook runs after the
transport's auth middlewares. The plugin enforces its own connection cap
because bfws.SessionManager does not see hijacked sockets. The README records
why the Azure provider cannot reach Voice Live (RealtimeWebSocketURL hardcodes
/openai/v1/realtime and takes no ctx) and what a production implementation
would look like.

Tests run a real WebSocket client against a fake Voice Live server through a
faithful replica of TransportInterceptorMiddleware, covering both models,
provider-prefix stripping, text and binary frame relay, the upstream URL and
api-key shape, and fall-through for unclaimed models. A guard test asserts the
RequestCtx remains reachable from the plugin-scoped context, since the whole
approach depends on it.
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  • New Features

    • Added a Voice Live Realtime plugin for configured Azure realtime models.
    • Supports WebSocket connections, bidirectional message relaying, model filtering, origin checks, connection limits, and configurable timeouts.
    • Added setup, configuration, build, cleanup, and usage documentation.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented stalled connections from holding capacity indefinitely.
    • Rejected non-loopback unencrypted upstream endpoints to protect API keys.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for routing, relay behavior, fallback handling, security validation, and connection parameters.

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Adds a Voice Live realtime plugin example. It intercepts configured WebSocket models, relays frames to Azure Voice Live, validates endpoint security, and falls through to Bifrost for other requests. Tests cover routing, context access, authentication, URL construction, endpoint validation, and frame forwarding.

Changes

Voice Live realtime proxy

Layer / File(s) Summary
Relay runtime and plugin wiring
examples/plugins/voicelive-realtime/main.go, examples/plugins/voicelive-realtime/go.mod
Adds WebSocket interception, Azure Voice Live dialing, bidirectional frame relay, connection limits, write deadlines, cleartext endpoint validation, cleanup, and module dependencies.
Proxy integration validation
examples/plugins/voicelive-realtime/main_test.go
Adds a fake upstream server and tests for context access, model routing, URL and authentication parameters, endpoint validation, text and binary frame relay, and native-handler fallthrough.
Build and usage support
examples/plugins/voicelive-realtime/Makefile, examples/plugins/voicelive-realtime/README.md
Adds plugin build and clean targets. Documents configuration, routing, testing, limitations, and runtime behavior.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Bifrost
  participant Plugin
  participant AzureVoiceLive
  Client->>Bifrost: Send realtime WebSocket upgrade
  Bifrost->>Plugin: Call HTTPTransportPreHook
  Plugin->>AzureVoiceLive: Upgrade upstream connection
  Client->>Plugin: Send realtime frame
  Plugin->>AzureVoiceLive: Forward frame
  AzureVoiceLive->>Plugin: Return response frame
  Plugin->>Client: Forward response frame
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Addresses review feedback on the Voice Live realtime plugin example.

pump bounded reads with SetReadDeadline but left dst.WriteMessage unbounded.
A peer that stops reading while it keeps sending refreshes the source read
deadline on every successful read, so nothing unblocks the write: the relay
goroutine parks forever and holds its activeConns slot, and enough stuck
relays make the plugin refuse new clients with 429. Now bounded by a 30s
write deadline, matching realtimeWSWriteTimeout in Bifrost's own realtime
handler and deliberately far shorter than idleTimeout, since an idle
connection is normal and a write that cannot drain for 30s is not.

Verified SetWriteDeadline is honoured here: fasthttp/websocket applies it to
the underlying conn in Conn.write, which WriteMessage routes through. The
remark in transports/bifrost-http/websocket/connection.go that WriteMessage
ignores the deadline does not hold for v1.5.12.

The endpoint config also accepted http:// and ws://, which buildUpstreamURL
rewrote into an unencrypted upstream connection that the api-key header then
travelled over. Init now rejects cleartext endpoints outside loopback;
loopback stays allowed because local fakes and the tests rely on it, and a
bare host already defaulted to wss://.

Documents both in the README, along with the requirement to build the plugin
against the same core as the target bifrost-http binary, since Go's plugin
loader requires exact agreement on every shared package.

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