Add connection-driven provider failover for common.ai LLM calls - #72156
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A task pointed at one llm_conn_id had no failover story: the only way to survive a provider outage was to build a pydantic-ai FallbackModel in Dag code, which moves credentials outside Airflow connections and leaves the llm_conn_id path uncovered entirely. An outage therefore meant task failure followed by retries into the same outage. Carrying the chain on the connection keeps the Dag naming a single connection while whoever administers connections owns the failover topology, so changing a standby provider is a connection edit rather than a Dag deployment. Resolving each hop through the hook registered for its own conn_type is what lets one chain span vendors whose credentials live in different connection fields. Chains are rejected rather than followed recursively, and model_id is not inherited by the fallbacks: a flat chain is the one a reader can verify off a single connection, and model_id names a model of the primary's provider.
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A task pointed at one llm_conn_id had no failover story: the only way to survive a provider outage was to build a pydantic-ai FallbackModel in Dag code, which moves credentials outside Airflow connections and leaves the llm_conn_id path uncovered entirely. An outage therefore meant task failure followed by retries into the same outage.
Carrying the chain on the connection keeps the Dag naming a single connection while whoever administers connections owns the failover topology, so changing a standby provider is a connection edit rather than a Dag deployment. Resolving each hop through the hook registered for its own conn_type is what lets one chain span vendors whose credentials live in different connection fields.
Chains are rejected rather than followed recursively, and model_id is not inherited by the fallbacks: a flat chain is the one a reader can verify off a single connection, and model_id names a model of the primary's provider.
Was generative AI tooling used to co-author this PR?
{pr_number}.significant.rst, in airflow-core/newsfragments. You can add this file in a follow-up commit after the PR is created so you know the PR number.