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The AI gateway decision is about how many data planes sit under one control plane, and model traffic and agent tool traffic answer it differently. This sets out the three operating models, a routing rule for placing traffic, and the standard a local gateway must meet to carry it.
A managed evaluation service can take over the judge, but not the contract tests, the drift canary, or anything needing provenance for the judge itself. Testing one produced four faults that each returned a plausible number instead of an error.
Per-message filters like Model Armor correctly pass most of a multi-turn probe. Adding the conversation tier that catches it, and the alerting fallback that turned out to matter more.
