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Short histories (e.g. an assistant tool_use followed by one oversized user tool_result) round the 50% message calculation down to zero removable messages. manageContext still returned a success-shaped truncation result (fresh truncationId, messagesRemoved: 0, unchanged messages), so the task emitted a sliding_window_truncation event and the next request retried into the same over-budget failure forever. - treat messagesRemoved === 0 as zero progress and degrade in place: shrink the largest eligible textual tool_result blocks, preserving their tool_use_id and block shape so the tool_use/tool_result pair is never orphaned; recount and report success only when the recalculated model-facing token count decreases - when nothing can be removed or shrunk further, return a controlled error/errorDetails result instead of emitting another fake truncation event - share one model-facing recount helper between the truncation and degradation paths so both report against the same accounting Fixes Zoo-Code-Org#1254
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- Line 2078: Extend the test around buildToolPairHistory and the related
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Follow-up to the zero-progress recovery added for Zoo-Code-Org#1254: - findShrinkableToolResults now only considers messages the API actually receives (getEffectiveApiHistory), so a tool_result hidden by a condensation summary can no longer be degraded: shrinking it lowered the token estimate while the request stayed unchanged, which is the same false progress this recovery exists to prevent - reserve the truncation notice's own characters before slicing and skip any candidate whose rewritten body would not be strictly shorter, so a tool_result already at the 200-character floor is left untouched instead of growing while the notice claims characters were removed - token bookkeeping uses the actual text.length - newText.length - tests: array-form tool_result coverage, exact controlled-error contract, condensed-history and shrink-floor regression cases - remove the changeset: AGENTS.md reserves changesets for maintainers
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…ndense clones Follow-up to the CodeRabbit review of Zoo-Code-Org#1617 (inline finding at findShrinkableToolResults): getEffectiveApiHistory returns a clone of a kept user message when it filters an orphan tool_result out of it, so that message never matched a persisted message by reference and the whole message was skipped — including its other, API-visible oversized tool_result. Recovery then reported a controlled error while the over-budget request still carried the unshrunk result. - collect API-visible blocks by reference instead of messages: the orphan filter keeps the surviving block objects, so block identity maps API-visible content back to its persisted location exactly — the filtered orphan block stays invisible (no token-estimate-only progress) and the surviving blocks in the same message stay shrinkable - regression test: one kept message with an orphan and an oversized valid tool_result; the oversized result must degrade, the orphan block must survive byte-identical
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Task.tspasses the result ofgetEffectiveApiHistorythroughcleanConversationHistorytocreateMessage. When a summary exists, the current recount still counts hidden pre-summary content and orphantool_resultblocks from persisted history. Recovery can therefore reject a reduction that affects only API-visible history.When a truncation marker is deleted,
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…he effective API history countModelFacingTokens walked the persisted history and skipped messages by truncationParent/isTruncationMarker metadata, so with a condense summary the recount still charged hidden pre-summary content, and orphan tool_result blocks filtered out of the effective history were counted against the recovery result. A degradation that only moved API-visible tokens could be rejected as zero progress and reported as a controlled failure. Both recounts now iterate getEffectiveApiHistory(msgs): the fresh-start summary slice, truncation-tagged messages (only while their marker exists), orphan-block filtering and the markers themselves are all reflected, matching what the next request actually carries. findShrinkableToolResults no longer vetoes candidates by message metadata: an oversized tool_result in a message whose truncationParent was rewound away (marker deleted) is API-visible again and must stay shrinkable. apiVisibleBlocks alone decides visibility. Regressions: orphaned-truncationParent candidate selection, and a persisted orphan tool_result block masking a successful degradation. Both fail on the previous code and pass now.
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🟠 Major · Require message truncation to fit the context budget. · src/core/context-management/index.ts:611-611
611-611: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRequire message truncation to fit the context budget.
Line 611 accepts any token reduction. It does not require
newContextTokensAfterTruncation <= allowedTokensor compare againstmodelFacingTokensBeforeRecovery.If truncation removes low-token messages while protected content remains oversized,
manageContextreturns a successful over-budget history.src/core/task/Task.tsthen persists and sends that history, and the next context-window error retries recovery.Require an effective-context decrease and budget fit before returning. Otherwise continue bounded recovery or return
recoveryFailed. Add a regression where message truncation reduces context but cannot meet the budget.Proposed fix
- if (truncationResult.messagesRemoved > 0 && newContextTokensAfterTruncation < prevContextTokens) { + if ( + truncationResult.messagesRemoved > 0 && + newContextTokensAfterTruncation < modelFacingTokensBeforeRecovery && + newContextTokensAfterTruncation <= allowedTokens + ) {This conflicts with the stated bounded recovery objective.
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Exercise the persisted and model-facing count mismatch.
getEffectiveApiHistory keeps the summary but hides the condenseParent messages. truncateConversation then adds a visible marker without reducing that effective history. With totalTokens: 0, prevContextTokens is only the summary count, while the recount also includes the system prompt, so the current test can pass without exercising the false-success path.
Use a nonzero persisted totalTokens that exceeds the model-facing count and assert the controlled recovery error with no truncation result. Keep the production guard based on modelFacingTokensBeforeRecovery and allowedTokens; this fixture must specifically cover the hidden-message and marker path.
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🟠 Major · Require message truncation to meet allowedTokens. · src/core/context-management/index.ts:583-655
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allowedTokens.
manageContextreturns success when messages are removed andnewContextTokensAfterTruncation < prevContextTokens, even if the result remains aboveallowedTokens. The reachableTaskrecovery paths stop only onrecoveryFailed, so they can persist or send the over-budget history. RequirenewContextTokensAfterTruncation <= allowedTokens; otherwise returnrecoveryFailedwith the original messages.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🟡 Minor · Recount the cleaned request history before deciding whether recovery fits. · src/core/context-management/index.ts:583-655
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countModelFacingTokenspasses raw image blocks toapiHandler.countTokens, whose image estimate scales with base64 data size. The request path replaces unsupported images with[Referenced image in conversation]. After a visibletool_resultshrink, a sufficiently large image can keep the raw recount aboveallowedTokenseven though the cleaned request fits.manageContextthen returnsrecoveryFailed, andTaskstops before sending.Use the same cleaned history for the recovery recount, including unsupported-image replacement.
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- Around line 583-655: The truncation success condition in manageContext must
require newContextTokensAfterTruncation to be at or below allowedTokens, in
addition to confirming messages were removed and tokens decreased. If truncation
remains over budget, do not return the truncated history as success; continue
recovery so the original messages ultimately produce recoveryFailed when no
valid reduction can meet the limit.
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Related GitHub Issue
Closes: #1254 (commented "Claiming" per the contribution guide — happy to be reassigned if that flow needs it)
Description
Root cause — the fallback branch in
manageContext(src/core/context-management/index.ts) callstruncateConversation(messages, 0.5). For short histories — e.g. an assistanttool_usefollowed by one oversized usertool_result—Math.floor((visibleCount - 1) * 0.5)rounds down to 1 and the even-rounding step takes it to 0 removable messages.truncateConversationthen returns the original messages with a freshtruncationIdandmessagesRemoved: 0, andmanageContextpassed that through as a success-shaped result.Task.tsemitted thesliding_window_truncationevent withmessagesRemoved: 0, the oversized history was never overwritten, and every retry re-enteredmanageContextover budget — the zero-progress loop described in the issue (parent: #648).Fix — make recovery monotonic and bounded, per the issue's acceptance criteria:
manageContextnow treatsmessagesRemoved === 0as zero progress. Instead of reporting a successful truncation, it degrades in place:shrinkOversizedToolResultsshrinks the largest eligible textualtool_resultblocks first (largest-first so each round frees the most tokens while losing the least information), preserving each block'stool_use_idand shape so thetool_use/tool_resultpair is never orphaned. The keep-size targets the over-budget amount using a chars-per-token ratio measured on the block itself, with a 200-char floor below which a block stops being eligible.newContextTokensAfterTruncation < prevContextTokenson every reported success.manageContextreturns a controllederror/errorDetailsresult (an actionable message naming the budget numbers) instead of emitting another fake truncation event — the existingcondense_context_errorpath inTask.tssurfaces it, and notruncationIdis set, so no misleading truncation UI event is produced.Trade-offs / notes for reviewers:
truncateResult.messages !== this.apiConversationHistoryreference check keeps working and the degraded history is persisted.truncationIdand reportsmessagesRemoved: 0with the lowered token counts, so the existingsliding_window_truncationUI channel reflects real progress (tokens reduced) rather than staying silent.src/utils/tiktoken.tsencodes a whole block in a single WASM call; a pathological multi-MB single-token-run block can makeencoder.encodethrow (RuntimeError: unreachable). The fix here does not depend on that path (the 4 MB test below uses realistic mixed content), but it may deserve its own issue.Test Procedure
Focused vitest coverage added to
src/core/context-management/__tests__/context-management.spec.ts(manageContext fallback recovery for zero-progress truncation):tool_use+ usertool_resultwith a ~4 MB mixed-text payload) over a 100k window with a 30k reserve. On the pre-fix code the new assertions fail (see below); after the fix, the tool_result is shrunk, the pair stays intact (tool_use_idpreserved, block shape preserved),messagesRemovedstays 0, andnewContextTokensAfterTruncation < prevContextTokens.error/errorDetailswith notruncationIdand an unchanged history.Red→green evidence (Windows, Node v24,
pnpm exec vitest run core/context-management):main(745656a): the recovery test fails onexpect(result.messages).not.toBe(messages)(same reference returned) andnewContextTokensAfterTruncation < prevContextTokens; the impossible-budget test fails onexpect(result.error).toBeDefined()— i.e. the current code reports a successful zero-progress truncation.2 failed | 53 skipped.2 passed; the full module + neighbors run73 + 246passed (context-management, condense, message-manager, checkpoints), andcore/task537 passed.srcsuite (8414 tests) run on the fix branch vs. unmodifiedmainon the same machine, compared by test name: 150 pre-existing environment failures on both sides (dist-assets requiring a build, tree-sitter native modules on Windows), 0 new, 0 disappeared.tsc --noEmit,eslint --max-warnings=0, andprettier --checkclean; changeset included.Pre-Submission Checklist
*.visual.tsxsnapshot inwebview-ui/. Seewebview-ui/AGENTS.md→ "When a UI change needs a snapshot".Visual Snapshots
Not a UI change (no rendered state touched; the existing
sliding_window_truncationevent payload semantics are unchanged).Videos (interaction / animation only)
Not applicable.
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