fix: avoid replaying superseded compaction summaries

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amosblomqvist
2026-10-26 19:08:15 +02:00
parent 3dc88472ee
commit b81f0a3455
6 changed files with 191 additions and 13 deletions
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@@ -27,12 +27,14 @@ const {
ensureCompacted,
kickCompaction,
awaitCompaction,
compactionInFlight,
effectiveThresholdTokens,
projectedContextTokens,
} = await import("../src/server/compaction.ts");
import type { CompactionDeps } from "../src/server/compaction.ts";
import { createFauxCore, fauxAssistantMessage } from "@earendil-works/pi-ai";
const { subscribe } = await import("../src/core/events.ts");
const { activeCompactionOf, newUserMessage, measuredContextTokens, COMPACTED_HISTORY_HEADER } = await import("../src/core/index.ts");
const { activeCompactionOf, newCompactionMarker, newUserMessage, measuredContextTokens, toLlmMessages, COMPACTED_HISTORY_HEADER } = await import("../src/core/index.ts");
import type { LhMessage } from "../src/core/index.ts";
after(() => {
@@ -167,12 +169,120 @@ describe("the compaction service", () => {
await ensureCompacted(deps, chatId);
assert.ok(seenPrompt.includes("prior compaction summary"), "the prior summary rides the span");
assert.ok(seenPrompt.includes(COMPACTED_HISTORY_HEADER), "as the marker's canonical text");
assert.equal(seenPrompt.split(COMPACTED_HISTORY_HEADER).length - 1, 1, "the prior summary is supplied exactly once");
const record = chatStore.getChat(chatId)!;
const markers = record.messages.filter((m) => (m as { customType?: string }).customType === "compaction");
assert.equal(markers.length, 2, "both markers persist (history is never rewritten)");
assert.ok(activeCompactionOf(record.messages)!.content.includes("SECOND SUMMARY"), "the newest rules");
});
it("ten successive compactions keep one summary on the wire and preserve the complete record", async () => {
const chat = chatStore.createChat("repeated-cycle fixture");
chatStore.saveMessages(chat.id, Array.from({ length: 20 }, (_, i) => big(`exchange-${i}`, 8)));
let calls = 0;
const deps: CompactionDeps = {
...depsOf(chat.id, 150_000),
summarize: async (prompt) => {
assert.equal(prompt.split(COMPACTED_HISTORY_HEADER).length - 1, calls === 0 ? 0 : 1);
if (calls > 0) assert.ok(prompt.includes(`SUMMARY-${calls}.`), "only the immediately prior summary rides forward");
return {
summary: `SUMMARY-${++calls}.`,
usage: { input: 1, output: 1, cacheRead: 0, cacheWrite: 0, totalTokens: 2, cost: { input: 0, output: 0, cacheRead: 0, cacheWrite: 0, total: 0 } },
};
},
};
for (let cycle = 1; cycle <= 10; cycle++) {
const messages = [...chatStore.getChat(chat.id)!.messages];
if (cycle > 1) messages.push(big(`growth-${cycle}`, 8));
// Controlled provider readings trigger compaction while the visible
// retained tail advances slowly enough to contain older markers.
messages.push({ id: `usage-${cycle}`, role: "assistant", content: [{ type: "text", text: "measured response" }], stopReason: "stop", usage: { input: 150_001, output: 1, cacheRead: 0, cacheWrite: 0, totalTokens: 150_002 }, timestamp: cycle } as LhMessage);
chatStore.saveMessages(chat.id, messages);
await ensureCompacted(deps, chat.id);
assert.equal(calls, cycle);
const record = chatStore.getChat(chat.id)!;
assert.deepEqual(record.messages.slice(0, -1), messages, "every original message and marker remains stored");
assert.equal(record.messages.filter((m) => m.role === "custom" && m.customType === "compaction").length, cycle);
const wire = JSON.stringify(toLlmMessages(record.messages));
assert.equal(wire.split(COMPACTED_HISTORY_HEADER).length - 1, 1, `cycle ${cycle}: one summary on the wire`);
assert.ok(wire.includes(`SUMMARY-${cycle}.`));
assert.equal(measuredContextTokens(record.messages), null, "committing a marker invalidates pre-compaction readings");
}
});
it("a resolved prior summary replaces all summary markers in the newly superseded span", async () => {
const chat = chatStore.createChat("summary span fixture");
const kept = big("previously retained");
const details = { firstKeptMessageId: kept.id, tokensBefore: 150_000, at: "fixture" };
const steer: LhMessage = { id: "steer", role: "custom", customType: "subagent-steer", content: "RESEARCH DELIVERY", display: true, details: {}, timestamp: 1 };
const messages = [big("discarded"), kept, newCompactionMarker("SUPERSEDED SUMMARY", details), steer, newCompactionMarker("LATEST SUMMARY", details), big("growth"), big("recent")];
chatStore.saveMessages(chat.id, messages);
let seenPrompt = "";
await ensureCompacted({ ...depsOf(chat.id, 40_000), summarize: async (prompt, engine) => {
seenPrompt = prompt;
return depsOf(chat.id, 40_000).summarize!(prompt, engine);
} }, chat.id);
assert.ok(seenPrompt.includes("previously retained"));
assert.ok(seenPrompt.includes("RESEARCH DELIVERY"), "non-compaction context markers still ride the span");
assert.ok(!seenPrompt.includes("SUPERSEDED SUMMARY"));
assert.equal(seenPrompt.split("LATEST SUMMARY").length - 1, 1);
assert.equal(seenPrompt.split(COMPACTED_HISTORY_HEADER).length - 1, 1);
assert.deepEqual(chatStore.getChat(chat.id)!.messages.slice(0, -1), messages);
});
it("an unresolved cutoff preserves legacy summary text in the next compaction input", async () => {
const chat = chatStore.createChat("legacy summary fixture");
const legacy = newCompactionMarker("LEGACY-ONLY INFORMATION", { firstKeptMessageId: "missing", tokensBefore: 150_000, at: "fixture" });
const messages = [big("old"), legacy, big("recent"), newUserMessage("latest")];
chatStore.saveMessages(chat.id, messages);
let seenPrompt = "";
await ensureCompacted({ ...depsOf(chat.id, 40_000), summarize: async (prompt, engine) => {
seenPrompt = prompt;
return depsOf(chat.id, 40_000).summarize!(prompt, engine);
} }, chat.id);
assert.equal(seenPrompt.split("LEGACY-ONLY INFORMATION").length - 1, 1);
assert.ok(!seenPrompt.includes("prior compaction summary"), "no separate prior summary exists for an unresolved cutoff");
assert.deepEqual(chatStore.getChat(chat.id)!.messages.slice(0, -1), messages);
});
it("the production summarizer rejects a length-stopped checkpoint and a complete retry can commit", async () => {
const chatId = overThresholdChat("incomplete summary fixture");
await ensureCompacted(depsOf(chatId, 40_000), chatId);
chatStore.saveMessages(chatId, [...chatStore.getChat(chatId)!.messages, big("growth 1"), big("growth 2")]);
const faux = createFauxCore({});
const { summarize: _injected, ...base } = depsOf(chatId, 40_000);
const deps: CompactionDeps = { ...base, engine: { model: faux.getModel(), streamFn: faux.streamSimple } };
const before = chatStore.getChat(chatId)!;
assert.ok(activeCompactionOf(before.messages), "the failed replacement must preserve an existing checkpoint too");
const events: string[] = [];
const off = subscribe((event) => {
const { chatId: id, running } = event as { chatId?: string; running?: boolean };
if (event.type === "compaction-changed" && id === chatId) events.push(`${running}`);
});
// Exercise the actual zero-tool summarizer with an offline provider;
// NODE_ENV=test otherwise deliberately skips non-injected summaries.
const env: Record<string, string | undefined> = process.env;
const originalNodeEnv = env.NODE_ENV;
env.NODE_ENV = "development";
try {
faux.setResponses([fauxAssistantMessage("INCOMPLETE SUMMARY", { stopReason: "length" })]);
await ensureCompacted(deps, chatId);
assert.deepEqual(chatStore.getChat(chatId), before, "an explicitly unfinished summary must not become a checkpoint");
assert.equal(compactionInFlight(chatId), false, "the failed run releases its gate");
assert.deepEqual(events, ["true", "false"]);
faux.setResponses([fauxAssistantMessage("COMPLETE SUMMARY")]);
await ensureCompacted(deps, chatId);
const record = chatStore.getChat(chatId)!;
assert.ok(activeCompactionOf(record.messages)!.content.includes("COMPLETE SUMMARY"));
assert.deepEqual(record.messages.slice(0, -1), before.messages);
assert.ok(!JSON.stringify(record.messages).includes("INCOMPLETE SUMMARY"));
} finally {
if (originalNodeEnv === undefined) delete env.NODE_ENV;
else env.NODE_ENV = originalNodeEnv;
off();
}
});
it("effectiveThresholdTokens: the setting rules big windows; the window rule binds small ones", () => {
assert.equal(effectiveThresholdTokens(150_000, 200_000), 150_000);
assert.equal(effectiveThresholdTokens(150_000, 100_000), 100_000 - 16_384);
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@@ -256,6 +256,22 @@ describe("toLlmMessages honors the cut", () => {
assert.equal(JSON.stringify(out).indexOf("COMPACTED]"), JSON.stringify(out).lastIndexOf("COMPACTED]"), "header appears exactly once");
});
it("omits nine superseded summaries inside the retained tail without changing stored history", () => {
const kept = newUserMessage("retained exchange");
const details = { firstKeptMessageId: kept.id, tokensBefore: 200_000, at: "fixture" };
const old = Array.from({ length: 9 }, (_, i) => newCompactionMarker(`SUPERSEDED-${i}`, details));
const fresh = newCompactionMarker("LATEST SUMMARY", details);
const messages = [newUserMessage("discarded"), kept, ...old, newUserMessage("latest reply"), fresh];
const original = JSON.stringify(messages);
const out = toLlmMessages(messages);
const flat = JSON.stringify(out);
assert.equal(out.length, 3, "latest summary + retained exchange + latest reply");
assert.ok(flat.includes("LATEST SUMMARY"));
assert.ok(!flat.includes("SUPERSEDED-"));
assert.equal(flat.split(COMPACTED_HISTORY_HEADER).length - 1, 1);
assert.equal(JSON.stringify(messages), original, "projection never rewrites the record");
});
it("a pending (dangling) question call in the KEPT tail still gets the interrupted synthesis", () => {
const kept = [assistantWithCall("a1", "call_1")];
const marker = newCompactionMarker("S", { firstKeptMessageId: "a1", tokensBefore: 1, at: "t" });
@@ -270,6 +286,22 @@ describe("toLlmMessages honors the cut", () => {
assert.equal(out.length, 3, "no head swap — all three render (marker as its user text)");
});
it("an unresolved newest cutoff preserves the full-history fallback, including summary text", () => {
const kept = newUserMessage("retained exchange");
const old = newCompactionMarker("OLD SUMMARY", { firstKeptMessageId: kept.id, tokensBefore: 1, at: "fixture" });
const fresh = newCompactionMarker("LATEST SUMMARY", { firstKeptMessageId: "missing", tokensBefore: 2, at: "fixture" });
const messages = [newUserMessage("earliest exchange"), kept, old, newUserMessage("latest reply"), fresh];
const original = JSON.stringify(messages);
const out = toLlmMessages(messages);
assert.equal(out.length, messages.length);
assert.equal(out[0]!.content, "earliest exchange", "do not silently apply the older cutoff");
const flat = JSON.stringify(out);
assert.ok(flat.includes("OLD SUMMARY"));
assert.ok(flat.includes("LATEST SUMMARY"));
assert.equal(flat.split(COMPACTED_HISTORY_HEADER).length - 1, 2);
assert.equal(JSON.stringify(messages), original);
});
it("chained compaction: the newest marker's cut wins; the older marker falls in the dropped span", () => {
const oldMarker = newCompactionMarker("OLD", { firstKeptMessageId: "m1", tokensBefore: 1, at: "t" });
const m1 = newUserMessage("x");
@@ -303,6 +335,11 @@ describe("serializeForSummary + buildCompactionPrompt", () => {
assert.ok(!text.toLowerCase().includes("plan-block"), "UI-only markers never serialize");
});
it("preserves legacy summary text when the caller has no separately supplied prior summary", () => {
const marker = newCompactionMarker("LEGACY SUMMARY", { firstKeptMessageId: "missing", tokensBefore: 1, at: "fixture" });
assert.ok(serializeForSummary([marker]).includes("LEGACY SUMMARY"));
});
it("the prompt demands the four sections in order and carries the plan tree verbatim", () => {
const prompt = buildCompactionPrompt({ spanText: "TRANSCRIPT", planTreeText: "- [done] A (a1)\n- A → B", kind: "teach" });
const order = ["The learner's understanding", "The teaching arc", "The plan dependency tree", "The current moment"].map(
@@ -388,6 +425,11 @@ describe("toLlmMessages carries the leading system message (request chrome)", ()
const record = (): LhMessage[] => [
{ id: "old", role: "user", content: "dropped history", timestamp: 1 },
{ id: "kept", role: "user", content: "kept tail", timestamp: 2 },
newCompactionMarker("SUPERSEDED SUMMARY", {
firstKeptMessageId: "kept",
tokensBefore: 98,
at: new Date(0).toISOString(),
}),
newCompactionMarker("SUMMARY", {
firstKeptMessageId: "kept",
tokensBefore: 99,
@@ -407,6 +449,8 @@ describe("toLlmMessages carries the leading system message (request chrome)", ()
: ((m.content as { text?: string }[])[0]?.text ?? "");
assert.ok(out.slice(2).some((m) => m.role === "user" && textOf(m) === "kept tail"));
assert.ok(!out.some((m) => m.role === "user" && textOf(m) === "dropped history"));
assert.ok(!JSON.stringify(out).includes("SUPERSEDED SUMMARY"));
assert.equal(JSON.stringify(out).split(COMPACTED_HISTORY_HEADER).length - 1, 1);
});
it("without a cut the chrome renders EXACTLY ONCE (no duplicate)", () => {