fix(server): serve migrated Task SDK families

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Background

The server worker only accepted ITextGeneration. A family migrated to the
Task SDK could run through the CLI but fail server startup. This is a
consumer-side prerequisite for further family-only migrations.

Exit Criteria

• Serve a pure Task SDK text family without adding legacy inheritance to it.
• Keep existing text bundles, HTTP/chat/SSE behavior and worker isolation working.
• Preserve family Config defaults and fail explicitly without retrying an older API.

Implementation

• Reuse apps/task_runtime.h to select the existing or SDK loader before execution.
• Call TextContinuation, primary ConditionalTextGeneration, or primary
  TextTranslation through the public C++ wrappers and stable C ABI.
• Reuse apps/config.h for declared Config types; pass only supplied values.
  Parameter errors remain recoverable; runtime errors remain redacted and fatal.
• Reuse the JSONL loop and existing CPU SDK fixtures. Add executable-level tests
  and document the supported contracts. No Core, family, ABI, bundle-format,
  dependency or runner change. This consumer bug fix needs no new ADR.

Change categories

• Model or runtime behavior
• Public API
• ABI
• Bundle or artifact format
• Dependencies
• Documentation only
• CI or developer tooling

Validation

Commands and Results

• cmake --build /build --parallel 8 --target test_server_sdk_worker test_server_worker trtmc: passed, including the real server executable and existing fixture DSOs.
• ctest --test-dir /build -R '^server_(sdk_worker(_process)?|worker)$' --output-on-failure: 3/3 passed. Covers both worker interfaces, all seven Config kinds, defaults, error recovery, primary Task selection and real process startup.
• PYTHONPATH=apps/server/python:core/builder:. python -m pytest -q -p no:cacheprovider apps/server/python/tests: 10 passed, including existing completion/chat/buffered-SSE checks.
• PYTHONPATH=core/builder:apps/benchmark:. python3 -m pytest -q -p no:cacheprovider tools/tests/test_architecture.py tools/tests/test_family_impact.py tools/tests/test_community_ci.py tools/tests/test_public_source_hygiene.py tools/tests/test_new_ci.py tools/tests/test_pr_metadata.py: 296 passed.
• Legal headers, model inventory, shared-native complexity, Ruff, clang-format and git diff --check: passed.
• Real-model smoke: ran trtmc-server _serve-worker BUNDLE --runtime-root RUNTIME_ROOT
  with JSONL generate/shutdown requests for both a pure-SDK GPT-2 bundle and an
  unchanged-main GPT-2 bundle built by its existing builder. Both passed readiness,
  generated 20 tokens, shut down cleanly, and matched their native trtmc run
  consumers exactly on output text and token count. This is integration parity,
  not an inference-speed claim.

Hardware, Environment, and Revisions

Source head 81725468bdac3d36f12aed9766a968103437297f, based on main
4b9cc2b0f259e8959e1a5c0e996506e60d7101b5. Python 3.12, C11/C++17,
TensorRT 11.1.0.106, CUDA 13.3; CPU fixtures plus one GPU for FP32 GPT-2.
Checkpoint: openai-community/gpt2 revision
607a30d783dfa663caf39e06633721c8d4cfcd7e.

Not Run / Remaining Gaps

No full Nightly, Multi-Device, throughput qualification or every-family inference
claim. Conditional generation and translation use CPU fixtures here; translation
requires bundled language defaults. A local GPT-2 Task SDK migration pilot is
used for integration validation but is not included in this PR. Remote CI is
pending at submission.

Contributor Self-Review

• I have completed a self-review of this change.

Notes For Future Readers

Review the loader selection, then the shared JSONL loop and SDK regression tests.
The existing bundle-mode selection remains only while families migrate; SDK errors
never fall back to it. Recognized HTTP parameters must still be supported by the
selected family. Buffered SSE remains buffered, not native token streaming.

Risk level

• Low
• Medium
• High

The change affects server loading and Config transport, not model computation;
both execution paths and existing protocol behavior are explicitly tested.

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📝 Summary

Summary

The server worker now supports Task SDK text families while preserving the existing ITextGeneration path for unmigrated families. Bundle loading selects the correct execution path before processing requests.

The worker supports continuation, conditional generation, and translation through public C++ wrappers and the stable C ABI. It forwards only supplied, declared configuration values and preserves zero, false, and embedded-NUL values. SDK errors return recoverable request errors and do not fall back to the legacy API.

Existing JSONL, HTTP, chat, SSE, readiness, shutdown, isolation, defaults, and error-recovery behavior remains unchanged. Native and process-level tests cover SDK dispatch, configuration forwarding, task selection, error handling, and worker retirement. Documentation describes the supported contracts.

Architecture impact

• Family-owned files: apps/server/native_worker.cpp, apps/server/native_worker.h, apps/server/main.cpp, and the new worker tests.
• Shared surfaces: trtmc_server now publicly links trtmc_c; the worker uses trtmc::LoadOptions, Model, and run_bundle_worker.
• Dependency direction: The server now depends on the public Core/Task SDK and stable C ABI surfaces. No Core, family implementation, ABI, bundle format, dependency, or runner changes are reported.
• Affected consumers: Native server workers, Python process tests, migrated Task SDK bundles, unmigrated ITextGeneration bundles, and users of the text-generation serving documentation.
• Unresolved blast-radius questions: The supplied evidence does not establish review finding counts or broader compatibility beyond the listed tests and smoke tests.

Status: HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED. REVIEW.md findings and severity counts were not supplied, so review status cannot be independently classified as PASS or BLOCK.

Walkthrough

The server now loads migrated bundles through SDK task APIs. It supports conditional generation, translation, and continuation tasks, validates task configuration, preserves the existing runtime path, and adds native and process coverage.

Changes

SDK-backed server worker

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Worker entry-point and build wiring CMakeLists.txt, apps/server/main.cpp, apps/server/native_worker.h	The server links the C API, exposes bundle-worker entry points, and registers native and Python process tests.
SDK task dispatch and protocol handling apps/server/native_worker.cpp	Migrated bundles use SDK model tasks for conditional generation, translation, and continuation. Configuration validation, token defaults, result serialization, recoverable errors, and existing-runtime dispatch are implemented.
Native and process validation apps/server/tests/test_sdk_worker.cpp, apps/server/tests/test_sdk_worker_process.py	Tests cover configuration forwarding, task selection, protocol errors, shutdown, runtime failures, disabled tasks, and end-to-end worker execution.
Serving behavior documentation website/docs/user-guides/serve-text-generation.md	The guide documents SDK task contracts, configuration behavior, error handling, and existing-runtime selection.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant _serve_worker
  participant run_bundle_worker
  participant Model
  participant SDK_Task_API
  Client->>_serve_worker: Send JSONL request
  _serve_worker->>run_bundle_worker: Load bundle with LoadOptions
  run_bundle_worker->>Model: Load migrated bundle
  Model->>SDK_Task_API: Create task request
  SDK_Task_API-->>run_bundle_worker: Return generation result
  run_bundle_worker-->>Client: Return JSONL response

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Suggested reviewers: xuanzic

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 81725

Bundles declaring an unsupported primary task can run the wrong continuation task or fail with an incorrect error. Add the explicit task guard before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 8 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 12.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 24 functions across 5 files. (2 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (8 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: server support for migrated Task SDK families.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the required background, exit criteria, implementation, change categories, validation evidence, environment, remaining gaps, self-review, notes, and risk rationale. It is comple…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Family Ownership Boundary	✅ Passed	No family-ownership violation is introduced. The PR changes only server code, CMake, server tests, and documentation; it does not edit a model-family implementation or family registry. Production code…
Shared Semantic Neutrality	✅ Passed	The changed shared server code remains model-agnostic. parse_sdk_config accepts only ConfigField entries declared by the loaded Task and delegates type conversion to the existing generic parser. `…
Benchmark Validation Integrity	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request does not change benchmark code, workload definitions, reference comparisons, gates, or report aggregation; git diff shows no changes under apps/benchmark. The server change …
Shared Change Blast Radius	✅ Passed	The check passes. The PR identifies a concrete model-agnostic need: the shared server accepted only ITextGeneration, so migrated Task SDK families could run through the CLI but fail server startup. …

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 12.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 24 functions across 5 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/server/native_worker.cpp`:
- Around line 298-311: Update the primary-task dispatch around
model.info().bundle_task to explicitly handle TextContinuation::kTask before the
fallback. Reject every other unsupported primary-task value with the existing
appropriate invalid-argument error mechanism instead of selecting
model.task<TextContinuation>() implicitly.

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• apps/server/native_worker.h
• apps/server/tests/test_sdk_worker.cpp
• apps/server/tests/test_sdk_worker_process.py
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