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- Around line 444-451: In the formatter loop over blocks and projections, skip
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Preserve explicit context boundaries and provider layout validation while incorporating upstream cache-stable wire formatting and token calibration. Remove a shadowed configuration method and narrow the cache mapping return type. Verification: full offline suite 9081 passed; focused provider/context checks and live GPT 5.6 Terra passed; Astra integration review approved. Targeted core Pyright passes. The merge hook skips Pyright once due to eight reproduced, inherited onboarding probe type errors in connect/_session.py; no type-check configuration or ignores changed. Signed-off-by: Severin Klingler <sklingler@nvidia.com>
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Thanks @alessiodevoto and @furgalep for the feedback and review. I tried to address all of your comments. PR is ready for a re-review 🙏 . |
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Did we test caching behavior after this? |
Caching review: normal turns look compatible, but summaries no longer reuse the parent requestI compared this PR at The important exception is summarization. Main's This PR instead starts a separate Predict request over selected stored history. It uses the same client, but not the same prompt, tools, response format or request-level settings, and normally has a different cache key. Using the same client does not preserve reuse of the parent's cached prompt. The independent request also does not automatically run through the parent's request middleware, so parent-only routing or request checks need explicit coverage. This appears intentional and gives the summary better isolation from executable tools and the parent's response format. However, it changes the cost/performance contract we added for cache-sharing summaries; it should not be described as equivalent caching behavior. How to check: run Requested change: explicitly decide whether parent-cache reuse is still a requirement. If it is, preserve an append-only summary path or provide a separately tested cache-sharing option without executing inherited tools. If independent summaries are the intended replacement, document the loss of parent-cache reuse and how request-level settings/middleware apply, and measure summary cache reads and cost on GPT 6.1 SOL before claiming equivalent performance. Relevant code: independent summary request, changed wire-test expectations. Verification for this review: 521 focused offline tests passed; 4 live cases were deselected. No live model calls were made, so this is not a measurement of current GPT 6.1 SOL cache-hit rates. |
Caching review: safely omitted history can make the default view failThe default view decides to insert a cache boundary based on whether it has any input items. Some valid history items intentionally produce no messages—for example, an assistant tool call whose execution record is absent. If these are the only items before the boundary, rendering fails even when a usable task block follows it. Reproduction at import asyncio
from nooa import Agent, DefaultAgentView, collect_context_items
from nooa.context_blocks import (
OpenAIProviderFormatter, XMLBlockFormatter, render_context,
)
from nooa.llm_types import LLMResponse, ToolCall
from nooa.strategies.current_call import CurrentCall
async def main():
agent = Agent(llm=object())
agent.context_manager.disable("system_prompt", "self", "state")
response = LLMResponse(
tool_calls=[ToolCall(
id="a", name="execute_python", arguments='{"code":"work()"}',
)],
finish_reason="tool_calls",
)
agent.event_manager.add(response) # No linked execution record.
agent.context["task"] = "valid trailing task"
call = CurrentCall(
id="next", method_name="run", decorator="plan", agent=agent,
)
try:
items = await collect_context_items(DefaultAgentView(), agent, call)
render_context(
items,
block_formatter=XMLBlockFormatter(),
provider_formatter=OpenAIProviderFormatter(),
)
finally:
await agent.aclose()
asyncio.run(main())Run with Rendering that incomplete response alone correctly returns an empty message list. The failure is introduced by the automatically added boundary, not by the trailing task. Requested change: handle an automatically inserted boundary whose preceding items all safely disappear during normal history rendering, so valid trailing context still reaches the model. Preserve omission of missing/archived execution records; do not fabricate tool results to fill the prefix. Add a test for full default-view assembly followed by rendering, rather than only testing the history helper in isolation. Relevant code: boundary insertion, empty rendered segment rejection. |
Caching review: make missing/empty boundaries consistent and document the direct-client changeThere are two separate cases to clarify: 1. A direct client without a boundary loses the old instruction-only cache fallback. On main, forced Requested change: add a direct-client migration example showing a boundary after fixed instructions and before changing input. State clearly that selecting an explicit cache mapping is no longer sufficient without a boundary. 2. An explicit boundary before any messages behaves differently depending on whether it goes through the renderer. The direct cache policy enables OpenAI explicit mode with an empty cached prefix. The renderer drops the same boundary, so explicit mode becomes disabled. Reproduction at from nooa import Block, CacheBoundary
from nooa.context_blocks import (
OpenAIProviderFormatter, XMLBlockFormatter, render_context,
)
from nooa.context_blocks.models import Role
from nooa.unifiedllm.cache_policy import apply_cache_policy
direct = apply_cache_policy(
[CacheBoundary(), {"role": "user", "content": "changing input"}],
"openai", responses=True,
)
rendered = render_context(
[CacheBoundary(), Block(
key="live", content="changing input", role=Role.USER,
)],
block_formatter=XMLBlockFormatter(),
provider_formatter=OpenAIProviderFormatter(),
).messages
through_renderer = apply_cache_policy(rendered, "openai", responses=True)
print(direct[2], through_renderer[2]) # True FalseRun with Requested change: choose and document one meaning for an empty-prefix boundary, then make direct-client and view-rendered requests agree. Add a test covering both routes and ensure the changing input is never accidentally marked as part of the fixed prefix. Relevant code: no-boundary behavior, renderer dropping leading boundaries. |
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How does this interact with a view filtering events by call_id, like the new quickstart? collapse() creates a Summary without that metadata, so after compaction the view would exclude both the archived originals and their replacement summary, silently losing that history from the prompt. Previously token-budget summarization skipped filtered history (?)
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827-828: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAlign the
current_callexample with the documentedrelated_call_idsfilter.The example filters with
event.call_id == call.invocation_id.docs/context.mdtells views to filter withcall.invocation_id in event.related_call_ids.The two filters differ after compaction.
collapse()creates aSummarywithcall_id=Noneand stores its sources insource_call_ids. A view that filters oncall_iddrops thatSummary. The archived originals are also inactive. The invocation then silently loses that history from its prompt.Use
related_call_idsin this example so the guidance matches the docs.♻️ Proposed change
- if event.call_id == call.invocation_id: + if call.invocation_id in event.related_call_ids and is_model_visible(event): yield event🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 102-104: Update SQLiteEventBackend’s stored-event loading path to
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omits source_call_ids, recovering IDs from archived children where available.
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Migrate legacy call IDs when loading stored events.
If a stored event has its call ID only in metadata, the new call_id field loads as None. SQLiteEventBackend validates the stored JSON without promoting that value. After a session resumes, events.query(call_id=...) misses those events, and a later collapse omits their IDs from source_call_ids. Promote legacy metadata["call_id"] during archive loading. Keep the documented behavior for newly constructed events unchanged. (github.com)
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Make existing stored summaries readable.
If a SQLite session contains a pre-upgrade Summary, its JSON has no source_call_ids. The new required field makes validation fail. SQLiteEventBackend.get() then returns None, while all_events() skips the summary. A resumed session therefore loses its stored compaction marker from event reads. Migrate older summaries on load. Recover source IDs from archived children where available, and add a pre-upgrade SQLite fixture. (github.com)
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Do not accept archival after the middleware removes the summary source.
When mode == "rewritten", the parent request contains only filtered. The cached-summary path copies that request and appends an instruction; it does not add the stored facts. The assertion at Line 127 then accepts archival of fact 0 and fact 1 even though the summary request did not contain them. A middleware that rewrites a real request can therefore remove those facts from future prompts without summarizing them. If the completed request no longer contains the source range, use stored-history summarization or leave the events active. Test that outcome instead. (github.com)
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Summary
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ContextViewprojects owner state into the ordered context for one LLM turn. One agent view owns the complete prompt and can compose skill views. The runtime collects and renders it; downstream formatting does not choose sources or invent content.assemble(owner, CurrentCall)yields materializedBlock, typed event, orCacheBoundaryitems.DefaultAgentViewis a standalone reference implementation with explicit sources, overrides, event selection, ordering, cache placement, and budgeting. Custom views can use any state API.call_idattribution andrelated_call_idsrelevance.Design: docs/context.md. The custom-context quickstart demonstrates a CodeAct agent using its own research context API.
API changes
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agent.context, context/event managers, block overrides, skill activation, andSkill.context_block. RemoveEventQuery,event_query=, scoped event selectors, and implicit cache injection.self.events.query()remains an inspection API. Registry names must map to distinct agent attributes; replacing the same full name remains supported.Default-view recovery labels existing tool calls without results as outcome-unknown without changing storage. Absent/archived execution records are not reconstructed. Rendering remains strict.
Update (2026-10-23)
Independent full-PR review against
bff0ef44found two empty-prefix cache-boundary defects; both fixed and rechecked. Reviewer ran 1,971 tests plus 63 final focused checks. Live Terra quickstarts 03, 16, and a shortened 09 compaction scenario passed; the summary reused 1,518 cached input tokens. Latest-main merge conflicts remain; this update is ready for review, not merge.Validation (2026-10-14)
3187c6df); independent Astra review approved the final design/code changes.eval_pipeline, one Terra run across all configured samples: 116/116 passed. Terra also served as the model judge. Earlier candidate and clean-main control each scored 115/116 on different truncation questions; the candidate failure had identical normalized input on main.connect/_session.pyremain outside this change.GitHub check status is reported by the checks below; local results are not a claim that hosted CI ran.
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EventQueryconfiguration and event filtering throughScopedContext; use context views to select events.