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WalkthroughChangesThe pull request adds deferred tool discovery, exact file-observation enforcement, context pruning, command-output reduction, TUI budget indicators, permission normalization, idle recaps, and updated agent guidance. Deferred tool discovery
Exact file observation safety
Output compaction and presentation
Permission normalization
Idle recaps
Agent guidance
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant TUI
participant RecapProvider
User->>TUI: Stop interacting
TUI->>TUI: Start four-minute idle timer
TUI->>RecapProvider: Request bounded session recap
RecapProvider-->>TUI: Return recap text
TUI-->>User: Display ephemeral idle recap
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internal/tools/output_boundary.go (1)
60-70: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRetain the upstream raw spill when both layers truncate.
If command reduction already set
result.TruncatedandbudgetSemanticOutputalso truncates, Line 60 is skipped. Line 69 then spills the already-reduced output and replacesspill_path, so the exact raw artifact is no longer reachable.Capture the upstream spill before deciding whether to create a new one:
+ if result.Truncated && budgeted.spillPath == "" { + budgeted.spillPath = result.Meta["spill_path"] + } if result.Truncated && !budgeted.truncated { budgeted.truncated = true ... - budgeted.spillPath = result.Meta["spill_path"] }Add a regression test with reducer output large enough to trigger the self-managed budget too.
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@internal/tools/output_boundary.go` around lines 60 - 70, Update the truncation handling around budgetSemanticOutput to preserve result.Meta["spill_path"] before the budgeted truncation check, including when both result.Truncated and budgeted.truncated are true. Prevent attachExistingSpill from replacing an existing upstream raw spill path, and add a regression test where reducer output also exceeds the self-managed budget while verifying the raw upstream artifact remains reachable.
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internal/agent/prune.go (1)
154-165: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winTrack all newer bodies for each read key.
Line 165 overwrites the prior body. For
A → B → Aresults from the same call, the oldestAremains even though the newestAsupersedes it, reducing the intended context savings.Suggested fix
- type seenResult struct { - content string - } - seen := map[string]seenResult{} + type seenResultKey struct { + call string + content string + } + seen := map[seenResultKey]struct{}{} ... - key := call.Name + "\x00" + strings.TrimSpace(call.Arguments) - if newer, exists := seen[key]; exists && newer.content == message.Content { + key := call.Name + "\x00" + strings.TrimSpace(call.Arguments) + resultKey := seenResultKey{call: key, content: message.Content} + if _, exists := seen[resultKey]; exists { ... - seen[key] = seenResult{content: message.Content} + seen[resultKey] = struct{}{}🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@internal/agent/prune.go` around lines 154 - 165, Update the deduplication state around the seen map and its assignment in the pruning loop to retain every newer result body for each read key instead of overwriting the prior body. For each message, treat it as superseded when any later body for the same key matches its content, so an A → B → A sequence replaces both older A results while preserving the newest result.
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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
Inline comments:
In `@internal/agent/additional_permissions_validation_test.go`:
- Around line 199-228: Update the test around normalizeNoopAdditionalPermissions
to start with SandboxPermissionsWithAdditionalPermissions instead of
SandboxPermissionsUseDefault, while keeping the engine-covered
additional_permissions setup. After normalization, assert sandbox_permissions is
reset to SandboxPermissionsUseDefault and retain the existing assertion that
additional_permissions is removed.
In `@internal/agent/compaction.go`:
- Around line 416-423: Add a regression test covering the
pruneSupersededReadResults path in the compaction flow: configure superseded
reads so pruning reduces calibrated usage at or below state.threshold, assert
the returned messages and lowWaterMark, and verify the summarizer is not
invoked.
In `@internal/tools/edit_file.go`:
- Around line 168-173: Preserve the pre-format content around the edit-file flow
and only record ranges as seen when formatting leaves the content unchanged or
the formatted result is explicitly returned/read. Apply this guard to
internal/tools/edit_file.go at lines 168-173 and internal/tools/write_file.go at
line 121, while retaining existing range behavior for unchanged content.
In `@internal/tools/file_safety_test.go`:
- Around line 147-152: Update the successful edit test around
registry.RunWithOptions to read the resulting f.txt contents and assert they
contain “bravo,” while retaining the existing StatusOK assertion so a no-op
success cannot pass.
In `@internal/tools/file_tracker.go`:
- Around line 89-104: Update RecordSeenRange to treat total == 0 as a whole-file
observation before rejecting end < start, so empty files set observation.whole
and clear ranges. In internal/tools/write_file.go lines 121-121, retain the
existing full-observation call for empty writes; add a regression test covering
a subsequent overwrite of a newly created empty file.
In `@internal/tools/registry_test.go`:
- Around line 527-537: The BuiltinCatalog test does not fail when an unlisted
tool is unexpectedly deferred. Update the loop around wantDeferred and
IsDeferred to reject any deferred tool whose name is absent from wantDeferred,
while preserving the expected deferred-tool checks and removal logic.
In `@internal/tools/shell_output_reducer.go`:
- Around line 18-25: Update the reduction guard in the command-output flow
around commandTextForReducer and reduceGoTestPassingPackages to return the
original result whenever result.Status indicates failure, before compacting
output. Preserve reduction only for successful commands, and extend the failure
test with enough passing-package lines to cover the reduction branch.
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In `@internal/tools/output_boundary.go`:
- Around line 60-70: Update the truncation handling around budgetSemanticOutput
to preserve result.Meta["spill_path"] before the budgeted truncation check,
including when both result.Truncated and budgeted.truncated are true. Prevent
attachExistingSpill from replacing an existing upstream raw spill path, and add
a regression test where reducer output also exceeds the self-managed budget
while verifying the raw upstream artifact remains reachable.
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In `@internal/agent/prune.go`:
- Around line 154-165: Update the deduplication state around the seen map and
its assignment in the pruning loop to retain every newer result body for each
read key instead of overwriting the prior body. For each message, treat it as
superseded when any later body for the same key matches its content, so an A → B
→ A sequence replaces both older A results while preserving the newest result.
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internal/tools/edit_file.go (1)
144-144: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRecord every span changed by
replace_all.
replace_allupdates every occurrence, buteditStartusesstrings.Indexand the tracker records only one new span. After a partial read, a follow-up edit to a later replacement can be rejected as unseen even though the model supplied that replacement. Record the post-edit span for every occurrence, including line shifts caused by earlier replacements. Add a regression test with two occurrences on different lines.Also applies to: 169-175
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@internal/tools/edit_file.go` at line 144, Update the replace_all handling around editStart and the tracker updates to iterate over every occurrence of oldString, recording each replacement’s post-edit span while accounting for cumulative line shifts from earlier replacements. Preserve single-replacement behavior, and add a regression test covering two occurrences on different lines followed by a later edit to the second replacement.
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
Inline comments:
In `@internal/tools/format_on_write_test.go`:
- Around line 64-86: Extend the formatter-modified edit test around
NewScopedEditFileTool to perform a second edit without an intervening exact
read, using an intentionally unformatted replacement so the formatted output
differs from the model-known content. Assert that this edit returns StatusError
with the “has not been read exactly” message, then retain the existing
exact-read and successful follow-up edit assertions.
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Outside diff comments:
In `@internal/tools/edit_file.go`:
- Line 144: Update the replace_all handling around editStart and the tracker
updates to iterate over every occurrence of oldString, recording each
replacement’s post-edit span while accounting for cumulative line shifts from
earlier replacements. Preserve single-replacement behavior, and add a regression
test covering two occurrences on different lines followed by a later edit to the
second replacement.
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Delay recap generation until the session has been inactive, orient it around the active goal and next task, cancel stale work on activity, and render the result ephemerally above the composer. Also strengthen the formatter safety regression to exercise formatter-modified edit output.
Translate each replacement into its post-edit line range, including cumulative shifts from earlier replacements, so follow-up edits remain authorized for every model-supplied change.
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internal/tui/recap_test.go (1)
165-178: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd coverage for disabling recaps while generation is in-flight.
TestHandleConfigCommandTogglesRecapsonly checks toggling on a static model. It does not exercise the path whererecapCancelis set to a real cancel function andrecapRunningis true when the user runs "recaps off".handleConfigCommandrelies oncancelIdleRecapto cancel that context, mirroringTestUserActivityCancelsAndClearsIdleRecap. Add a similar case here to confirm the context actually cancels when recaps are disabled mid-generation, not just thatidleRecapclears.As per path instructions, "add a regression test for behavior changes."
✅ Suggested additional case
func TestHandleConfigCommandCancelsInFlightRecap(t *testing.T) { ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background()) m := model{recapsEnabled: true, recapRunning: true, recapCancel: cancel, idleRecap: "old recap"} m, _ = m.handleConfigCommand("recaps off") if m.recapRunning || m.recapCancel != nil || m.idleRecap != "" { t.Fatalf("disabling recaps did not clear in-flight state: running=%v cancel=%v recap=%q", m.recapRunning, m.recapCancel != nil, m.idleRecap) } select { case <-ctx.Done(): default: t.Fatal("disabling recaps did not cancel in-flight generation context") } }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@internal/tui/recap_test.go` around lines 165 - 178, Add a regression test alongside TestHandleConfigCommandTogglesRecaps that creates a cancellable context, initializes model with recapRunning true and recapCancel set, then invokes handleConfigCommand("recaps off"). Assert the in-flight state and idleRecap are cleared and verify the context is canceled, covering cancellation through cancelIdleRecap.Source: Path instructions
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/tui/recap_test.go`:
- Around line 165-178: Add a regression test alongside
TestHandleConfigCommandTogglesRecaps that creates a cancellable context,
initializes model with recapRunning true and recapCancel set, then invokes
handleConfigCommand("recaps off"). Assert the in-flight state and idleRecap are
cleared and verify the context is canceled, covering cancellation through
cancelIdleRecap.
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Had a look at The numbers are good. -41% input tokens and -40% model requests with correctness held at 6/6 is a real result, and I like that the comparison is frozen on provider, model, profile and wording. Seven independent changes in 44 files is my main concern. Tool deferral, context reporting, test-output compaction, file version tracking, read pruning, permission normalization and planning guidance don't depend on each other, and they fail in completely different ways: deferral is a provider-cache and discoverability question, file versioning is edit correctness, permission normalization is security-adjacent, compaction is output fidelity. If a context-efficiency regression shows up three weeks from now, a bisect lands on one commit that did all seven. Each is independently reviewable and independently revertable if they go in separately. The recap rewrite isn't in the description at all, and it's the largest single change in the diff.
That's a reasonable change on its own merits. It just isn't one of the seven bullets, and someone reading the summary would not know it happened. Related: I don't think the measured impact covers it. The recap only fires after four minutes of inactivity in the TUI, and a frozen 10-task benchmark with one iteration per task run back-to-back never idles that long — so One thing I checked properly because it's the security-adjacent bit, and it's fine. Housekeeping: all three CodeRabbit reviews are on older commits ( Happy to do a proper review of any of these once they're split, or of the whole thing if you'd rather keep it together — say which and I'll go through it in depth. Not blocking anything while it's a draft. |
Verify replace-all tracking through the canonical edit tool path instead of a platform-sensitive temp path, and cover cancellation when recaps are disabled during generation.
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Built and ran this locally against Tool schemas −46.9% (you claimed −45.3%), total fixed context −26.3% (you claimed −25.2%). Independent corroboration on both.
Deferral is safe. All five deferred tools — The elision guard is correct, and I checked it specifically because it's the dangerous direction. A 2.6MB file read returns 131KB with One real bug, though, and it falls out of exactly that guard. A file past the read byte budget can never satisfy There is no sequence of reads that clears it. Two things combine:
So the advice in the error can't work for this tool, which is the part I'd fix regardless of the rest — a model will loop on it. Related and probably the same root:
Suggestion: compute Happy to send this as a patch if it's useful — say the word. Everything above is on top of the scope and recap points from my earlier comment, which still stand. |
SeenWhole was a flag set only by a SINGLE read covering the file, while
SeenRange judged coverage from the accumulated ranges. The two then
disagreed about identical reads: after reading lines 1-50 and 51-100 of a
100-line file, SeenRange(1,100) was true and SeenWhole was false.
That matters because write_file gates overwrites on SeenWhole. A file past
the read byte budget cannot be read whole in one call — the read is
truncated and RecordSeenRange is correctly skipped, since the model did not
see those lines — so no sequence of reads could ever set the flag, and the
overwrite was refused permanently with:
the intended change depends on content that has not been read exactly
in this session. Read the affected lines with read_file, then retry.
Advice that could not change the answer. edit_file was unaffected because it
gates on SeenRange, so the escape was to edit rather than rewrite, but a
model following the error text would loop.
SeenWhole is now computed from the ranges against the file's recorded line
count, so scoped reads that together cover a file make it writable and the
error text becomes actionable. The observation carries that line count, and
a read reporting a different one clears the accumulated ranges: they
describe a shape the file no longer has.
Coverage is judged by merging sorted ranges rather than walking every line
against every range, which the previous SeenRange did — same answer, and it
no longer scans line-by-line over a large file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Patch is up as #842, targeting The Your existing file-tracking tests pass untouched. |
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read_file resolves the workspace root through EvalSymlinks before recording anything, so the tracker is keyed on the resolved path. The test asserted against the raw t.TempDir() path, which is the same string on Windows and a different one on macOS, where the temp dir sits under /var — a symlink to /private/var. The SeenWhole assertions would have looked up a key that never existed: passing here, failing on macOS CI. Also switches the line generator to fmt.Fprintf (staticcheck QF1012). Both from CodeRabbit on #842. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous commit's message claimed this was done. It was not: the edit silently did not apply and I reported it fixed without re-reading the file, so builder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf(...)) survived at the head — caught by @anandh8x, not by me. Verified this time by running the linter rather than by reading the diff: golangci-lint --enable-only unused,ineffassign,staticcheck ./internal/tools/ reports 0 issues.
fix(tools): derive SeenWhole from the recorded ranges
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The new tests cover the previous large-file failure path. They also cover range gaps and changed line counts. I found no new correctness, safety, CLI UX, or test-coverage issue in the incremental changes. I did not execute tests in this environment. CI is reported green. I resolved my review comments. An approval requires an explicit [resolve] You are interacting with an AI system. |
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@anandh8x flagging the rename/copy one from my review as the priority — it's the only finding that's a regression against your own previous head, so it's cheap to confirm.
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139-155: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCommit file observation after the final model output in the retry and
ask_userpaths.When
DeferFileObservationCommitis true,registry.RunWithOptionsdefers until the caller callsCommitFileObservation.executeToolCalltakes that path and commits afterdispatchAfterTool, butrunToolForNetworkRetry,runToolForUnsandboxedRetry, andaskUserFallbackResultdo not pass the flag or commit. If these paths run file-tracking tools, they can leave later edits refused despite a successful successful read, or commit too early before caller output transformations. Add the final-commit handling for these directRegistryoutputs and cover it with a race-detector test.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@internal/tools/registry.go` around lines 139 - 155, Update runToolForNetworkRetry, runToolForUnsandboxedRetry, and askUserFallbackResult to preserve DeferFileObservationCommit and commit file observations only after all final output transformations complete, matching executeToolCall behavior. Ensure each direct Registry output propagates the defer state and performs the final CommitFileObservation when required, preventing premature or missing commits. Add a race-detector test covering file-tracking tools through these retry and ask_user paths.
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163-216: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winConsider extracting the shared hunk-walking logic to avoid duplicated diff parsing.
completeCreatedPatchTargets(Lines 163-216) andpatchHeaderPaths(Lines 293-329) both implement the same unified-diff line-walking state machine: trackinginHunk,oldRemaining,newRemaining, and consuming hunk-body lines identically. A future fix to hunk-counting or line-classification logic in one function can be missed in the other, which is risky for patch-parsing code that gates file-observation safety.Extract a shared line-walker that yields classified lines (diff header,
---/+++header,@@header, hunk body) to both callers, keeping each function's per-line handling in its own callback.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@internal/tools/apply_patch.go` around lines 163 - 216, Extract the duplicated unified-diff hunk state machine from completeCreatedPatchTargets and patchHeaderPaths into a shared line-walker that classifies diff headers, file headers, hunk headers, and hunk-body lines. Update both callers to consume the walker while retaining their existing per-line handling and results.
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In `@internal/agent/loop.go`:
- Around line 1360-1361: Update both retry helpers, runToolForNetworkRetry and
runToolForUnsandboxedRetry, to copy DeferFileObservationCommit into their
RunOptions alongside FileTracker. Preserve the flag’s existing value so retry
results continue through the loop-level CommitFileObservation step.
In `@internal/agent/output_budget_propagation_test.go`:
- Around line 76-130: Update both tests,
TestExecuteToolCallCommitsReadObservationAfterFinalBoundary and
TestExecuteToolCallDoesNotCommitReadObservationBeforeHookBudget, to create a
separate target file plus a symlink, invoke read_file with the symlink path, and
retain the resolved target path for tracker assertions. Ensure the first test
expects the target to be observed and the second confirms it is not committed
before hook output budgeting.
In `@internal/tools/file_safety_test.go`:
- Around line 205-214: Extend the follow-up edit assertion in the test around
registry.RunWithOptions to read new.txt after the successful edit and verify its
content is exactly "updated content". Keep the existing status assertion, and
fail the test if reading the file fails or the replacement did not change the
supplied content.
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In `@internal/tools/registry.go`:
- Around line 139-155: Update runToolForNetworkRetry,
runToolForUnsandboxedRetry, and askUserFallbackResult to preserve
DeferFileObservationCommit and commit file observations only after all final
output transformations complete, matching executeToolCall behavior. Ensure each
direct Registry output propagates the defer state and performs the final
CommitFileObservation when required, preventing premature or missing commits.
Add a race-detector test covering file-tracking tools through these retry and
ask_user paths.
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In `@internal/tools/apply_patch.go`:
- Around line 163-216: Extract the duplicated unified-diff hunk state machine
from completeCreatedPatchTargets and patchHeaderPaths into a shared line-walker
that classifies diff headers, file headers, hunk headers, and hunk-body lines.
Update both callers to consume the walker while retaining their existing
per-line handling and results.
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Approve. My blocker is closed, and so are both of the soundness holes @Vasanthdev2004 found after my last review — I verified all three independently rather than reading the commit messages.
Re-reviewed at 74c06a13, base d37de921. Previously reviewed at 1c1cb942; the delta is 2ddb1340 "test: cover permission normalization wiring" and 74c06a13 "fix: commit file observations after output budgeting".
Withdrawn — my blocker
The permission normalization was reachable only through tests that called the helper directly, so deleting the call site left internal/agent green. 2ddb1340 adds the wiring test. Re-running the same mutation now fails TestExecuteToolCallNormalizesProviderExpandedEmptyAdditionalPermissions. Closed.
Verified — both of Vasanth's findings
Credit where it is due: these were the two real defects in this PR and I did not find either. I had probed the "can the model edit content it never saw" direction on an older head and cleared it; his probes were better aimed.
Rename and copy destinations no longer gain whole-file credit. apply_patch.go:132 now derives wasWhole from completeCreatedPatchTargets — only files whose full contents come from a /dev/null creation hunk — instead of missingPatchTargets, which counted any header path that did not previously exist and therefore swept in rename/copy destinations whose bytes come from an unread source. Reproduced his probe end to end, with a control first to prove the gate was live:
control: write_file on never-read src.txt -> error (gate live)
apply_patch(rename) -> ok
SeenWhole(dst, NEVER read) = false (was true)
write_file on never-read dst -> error
disk = "ORIGINAL SECRET CONTENT" (unchanged)
Byte credit is no longer granted for content the registry strips. The recording moved out of the tool and behind pendingFileObservation, committed by Registry.CommitFileObservation only when result.Status == StatusOK && !result.Truncated && strings.HasPrefix(result.Output, observation.output) — i.e. only when the tool's complete output survived every later layer intact. That is the right shape: a trimming layer breaks the prefix and silently forfeits credit rather than over-claiming it.
Load-bearing, confirmed by mutation. Reducing the guard to observation == nil || tracker == nil fails three tests across two packages:
--- FAIL: TestRegistryTruncationDoesNotCreditUndeliveredByteRanges
--- FAIL: TestRegistryTruncationDoesNotCreditWholeLineRead
--- FAIL: TestExecuteToolCallDoesNotCommitReadObservationBeforeHookBudget
The third is the one I would have asked for: it pins the agent-side hook budget as a layer that must also run before credit is committed, not just the registry's own budget.
Also fixed since my review
- The title is now a conventional commit —
perf: improve harness context efficiency. With ten-plus commits the squash subject comes from the PR title, so this will now produce a changelog entry rather than being silently dropped. go test -coverkeeps its numbers.reduceGoTestPassingPackagesnow excludes lines containingcoverage:or[no test files]. I confirmed all 20 coverage lines survive in a syntheticgo test -cover ./...output and the reduction correctly declines to fire. This also subsumes the narrowert.Logf("ok …")case I raised.
What I verified overall
Across three passes I have now tried to break seven mechanisms in this PR. Six were pinned by tests that failed for the right reason; the seventh (permission wiring) is fixed above.
| Mutation | Result |
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SeenWhole ignores accumulated line ranges |
caught |
SeenWhole ignores byte coverage |
caught (incl. a UTF-8 boundary case) |
apply_patch drops whole-seen propagation |
caught |
| Output reducer disabled | caught |
| Deferred tool catalog emptied | caught (6 tests) |
| Observation committed despite a trimmed output | caught (3 tests) |
| Permission normalization call site deleted | caught, as of 2ddb1340 |
Gauntlet at this head, darwin/arm64, non-/tmp checkout: go build ./..., make fmt-check, go vet ./..., git diff HEAD --check all clean; internal/tools, internal/agent, internal/tui, internal/contextreport all pass. The two internal/cli doctor failures are pre-existing and environmental on my machine — they read the real ~/.config/zero/config.json and fail identically at base.
Non-blocking
- The headline measurements are stale in the one direction that matters.
read_filehas gainedbyte_offsetandbyte_limitsince the benchmark was run, and it is eager (noDeferred()method), so both properties and their descriptions now sit in the fixed context on every request. The "-45.3% initial tool schemas" and "-25.2% initial fixed context" figures were measured at68a60f14. Still very likely a large net win, but since the case for this PR rests on those numbers, re-running them at the final head before merge would make the claim true again rather than approximately true. - Scope: eight changes, no linked issue. All eight are now disclosed in the description, which was my substantive objection, so I am not holding the PR for it. The cost is on record though: across this PR's life, three separate defects — the
SeenWholelockout, the rename credit and the byte over-credit — each needed its own follow-up commit, and every one of them lived in the read-before-edit change. That piece would have been much easier to reason about, bisect and revert on its own. - One edit still clears the seen ranges for the whole file, not just the touched region:
Record→RecordHashdrops the entireseenentry on any hash change, after which only the edited spans are re-recorded. That is the conservative direction and I am not asking for a change, but it is the same wasted-re-read cost that motivated theapply_patchwork, so it is worth knowing it is still there foredit_file.
Not verified
- The prune-on-pressure change and the context-report change, beyond confirming their packages pass.
- The prompt/guidance rewrite, which is behavioural in a way tests cannot settle.
- The recap rework beyond confirming
internal/tuipasses; Vasanth checked its four guarantees by breaking each in turn and I did not repeat that. - The full
go test ./...; I ran the five affected packages. - Any platform other than darwin/arm64.
The testing discipline here ended up genuinely strong — every defect found in review came back with a regression test that fails for the right reason.
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Re-reviewed at 74c06a13. Both blockers are fixed, and the way you fixed them is better than what I suggested — staging a pendingFileObservation and committing it at the boundary that actually decides what the model receives is the right shape, and the HasPrefix(result.Output, observation.output) check is a nice touch because it verifies survival rather than trusting a flag.
Re-ran every probe from my last review:
[rename] SeenWhole(dst)=false write_file=error
[copy] SeenWhole(dst)=false write_file=error
byte-mode CJK: credit="" SeenWhole=false edit on never-delivered marker=error
line-mode 102KB CJK: seen_lines="" SeenWhole=false
And checked you didn't over-correct, which was the real risk here:
- a genuine
/dev/nullcreation patch still gets whole-file credit and the follow-up edit passes —completeCreatedPatchTargetsdraws the line where it should - read → patch → edit still needs no re-read
- the ASCII single-line recovery still works, 7 chunks, write succeeds
- a hunk body containing literal
--- /dev/nulland+++ b/secret.txtlines does not fool the parser — the hunk-count skip holds, credit stays false and the write is refused
The executeToolCall wiring is right too: defer set at 1361, commit at 1413 after RebudgetAfterHook, exactly once, and every early return simply loses credit rather than granting it.
Clearing my requested-changes. Two things I'd like handled, neither blocking.
The recovery path doesn't converge at its own default on multibyte content. byte_limit defaults to 65536 and that's also the maximum, and on CJK text a 65536-byte request delivers ~290 bytes, gets correctly denied credit, and says nothing about why:
byte_limit=65536 truncated=true delivered=287 credit=NONE
byte_limit=16384 truncated=false delivered=16459 credit=0-16383
byte_limit=4096 truncated=false delivered=4169 credit=0-4095
At 16384 a 252KB CJK file covers in 16 calls, so the path works fine — but only if the model happens to pick a smaller limit. At the default it gets a spill-path notice, and an identical retry returns identically, so it has no reason to try anything different and no signal telling it to. The refusal text names byte_offset/byte_limit but not "smaller". Either mention the limit that would fit when the budget denies a byte-mode read, or have the tool shrink the chunk itself — it knows the content is multibyte before it renders.
The new defer flag has no enforcement, and two of its first callers already diverge. CodeRabbit caught this one and it's worth acting on: runToolForNetworkRetry and runToolForUnsandboxedRetry both build a fresh tools.RunOptions that sets FileTracker but not DeferFileObservationCommit, so the registry commits inline — and their results then return into executeToolCall and pass through RebudgetAfterHook before reaching the model. Credit lands before that layer can trim. (askUserFallbackResult sets no tracker, so it's moot there.) I traced this rather than reproducing it — it needs a file-tracking tool to hit a sandbox retry, which is narrow — so treat it as unconfirmed, but the shape is the same one this commit exists to fix. The general problem is that "any caller with an extra output layer must set this flag" is an invariant nothing checks, and it was already missed twice in the same file the day it was introduced. Worth a comment on the field at minimum.
gofmt, go vet and the internal/tools, internal/agent and recap suites are all clean for me.
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In `@internal/agent/loop_test.go`:
- Around line 493-495: Update both retry fixture assertions in the test to
require the complete defer flag sequence [false, true], not merely a true second
entry. Verify that the initial call does not defer file observation commits and
only the retry does, preserving the existing failure diagnostics for each
fixture.
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Re-checked at 7d16bda4. The retry fix is right — both helpers now pass DeferFileObservationCommit: true, and since CommitFileObservation at loop.go:1413 sits outside the if toolFound block, the retry branch reaches it. I mutation-tested your new assertion by stripping the flag from both helpers (leaving executeToolCall's in place) and both tests failed with retry defer flags = []bool{true, false}, so it's load-bearing rather than incidental.
Re-ran the earlier probes on this head and nothing regressed: rename and copy still give SeenWhole=false with the write refused, a 64K CJK chunk still earns no credit and the edit is refused, and the ASCII single-line recovery is still 7 chunks to a successful write.
One thing to fix before you merge — TestApplyPatchCompleteCreationCreditsSuppliedFile fails on Windows:
file_safety_test.go:219: follow-up edit content = "updated content\r\n", want "updated content\n"
It's the test, not the code. git apply runs in the tool's temp workspace, which picks up core.autocrlf=true from Git for Windows' system gitconfig — my repo has core.autocrlf=false locally and it still reproduces, so a local override won't save it. Git for Windows installs that system default, so windows-latest will very likely hit the same thing. ubuntu-latest and macos-latest are already green here, which fits — they never see CRLF.
Cheapest fix is to stop asserting on exact bytes for something git apply is allowed to rewrite: compare with line endings normalized, or pass -c core.autocrlf=false on the git apply invocation the tool makes. Same family as the CRLF traps we've hit before on this repo.
Approving on the substance so my earlier review isn't what's holding this up — everything I asked for across the three rounds is in. @anandh8x once the Windows check is sorted, go ahead and merge.
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Re-checked at 73e07cd3. The line-ending fix is right, and Smoke (windows-latest) is green now — that test passes on my Windows box too, where it was failing before. Good that you normalized rather than loosening the assertion to a substring; it still proves the edit landed.
Confirmed the change is test-only (one line in file_safety_test.go, nothing in production), and re-ran the gate checks on this head:
[rename] SeenWhole=false write=error
[copy] SeenWhole=false write=error
CJK 64K chunk: credit="" edit=error
/dev/null create: patch=ok edit=ok
So both bypasses stay closed and the legitimate creation path still gets its credit. internal/tools and internal/agent suites are clean here. The one internal/tui failure I see locally is TestAltScreenTranscriptScrollKeepsFooterFixed, which also fails on origin/main for me and passes in your CI — my machine, not this PR.
Re-approving; my previous one was dismissed by the push. Everything I raised across the four rounds is in, and the two follow-ups from my earlier review still stand as non-blocking: the multibyte byte_limit default that earns no credit with nothing telling the model to shrink it, and a comment on DeferFileObservationCommit noting that any caller with its own output layer has to set it.
Nice work on this one — the staged-observation design ended up cleaner than the fix I originally suggested.
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Approve. Everything blocking across four review rounds is closed. I verified the two fixes in this delta independently, including reproducing the Windows-only failure on macOS so it is not taken on trust.
Re-reviewed at 73e07cd3, base d37de921 (level with origin/main). Previously approved at 74c06a13; the delta is 7d16bda4 "fix: defer file observations across retries" and 73e07cd3 "test: normalize patch line endings".
Verified in this delta
The retry helpers now defer their observation commit, and the assertion is load-bearing. runToolForNetworkRetry and runToolForUnsandboxedRetry previously built a fresh tools.RunOptions carrying FileTracker but not DeferFileObservationCommit, so credit landed inline — before RebudgetAfterHook could trim what actually reaches the model. Flipping all three occurrences of the flag to false fails three tests:
--- FAIL: TestRunRetriesShellUnsandboxedAfterSandboxNamespaceLimitedOutput
--- FAIL: TestRunRetriesNetworkDeniedShellWithNetworkGrant
--- FAIL: TestExecuteToolCallDoesNotCommitReadObservationBeforeHookBudget
The Windows CRLF failure is genuinely fixed, and I confirmed it without Windows. @Vasanthdev2004 reported TestApplyPatchCompleteCreationCreditsSuppliedFile failing on windows-latest because Git for Windows ships core.autocrlf=true in its system config, which the tool's temp workspace inherits. I reproduced that condition on darwin by pointing HOME at a scratch dir with core.autocrlf=true set globally, then reverted the assertion to its pre-fix exact-byte form:
=== pre-fix assertion, autocrlf=true
--- FAIL: TestApplyPatchCompleteCreationCreditsSuppliedFile
file_safety_test.go:219: follow-up edit content = "updated content\r\n", want "updated content\n"
=== fixed assertion, autocrlf=true
ok github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/tools
That is his reported failure byte for byte, so the simulation is faithful and the normalization is what closes it. Worth recording the technique: this class of Windows-only test failure is reproducible anywhere by overriding the global gitconfig, which is cheaper than waiting on CI.
Gauntlet at this head, darwin/arm64, non-/tmp checkout: go build ./..., make fmt-check, go vet ./..., git diff HEAD --check all clean; internal/tools, internal/agent, internal/tui, internal/contextreport all pass. Level with origin/main.
Everything blocking, across four rounds
| Finding | Raised by | Closed at |
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write_file locked out on files > 128 KiB |
me | a1a9503b |
| Recap change undocumented in the description | me | description rewrite |
| Permission normalization wiring untested | me | 2ddb1340 |
| Rename/copy destination granted whole-file credit | Vasanth | 74c06a13 |
| Byte credit for registry-stripped content | Vasanth | 74c06a13 |
| Retry helpers committed credit before rebudget | Vasanth / CodeRabbit | 7d16bda4 |
| Windows CRLF test failure | Vasanth | 73e07cd3 |
Eight mutations across four rounds; every mechanism is now pinned by a test that fails for the right reason.
Non-blocking — both carried from Vasanth's review, both still open
- A denied byte-mode read still gives the model no reason to try a smaller chunk.
byte_limitdefaults to 65536, which is also its maximum, and on CJK content a 65536-byte request delivers ~290 bytes, is correctly denied credit, and returns a message namingbyte_offset/byte_limitbut never "smaller" (read_file.go:211,:213;file_tracker.go:380). An identical retry returns identically, so nothing pushes the model toward the 16384 that would converge. Either name a fitting limit in the denial or have the tool shrink the chunk itself — it knows the content is multibyte before it renders. - The defer-flag invariant is documented but not enforced.
RunOptions.DeferFileObservationCommitcarries a two-line comment (registry.go:34-36) and nothing more. "Any caller with an extra output layer must set this flag" was already missed twice inloop.goon the day it was introduced, which is the repo's recurring "two things that must agree, with nothing asserting they do" shape. The established remedy here is a drift test — an AST walk overinternal/agentasserting that everytools.RunOptionsliteral settingFileTrackeralso setsDeferFileObservationCommitwould make a third miss impossible rather than merely unlikely.
Not verified
- The prune-on-pressure and context-report changes, beyond confirming their packages pass.
- The prompt/guidance rewrite, which is behavioural in a way tests cannot settle.
- The recap rework beyond
internal/tuipassing; Vasanth broke each of its four guarantees in turn and I did not repeat that. - Actual Windows CI. My reproduction simulates the
core.autocrlfcondition, which is the mechanism he identified, but it is not a realwindows-latestrun. - The full
go test ./...; I ran the four affected packages.
One process note for the record, not a reason to hold this: the read-before-edit change accounted for six of the seven blocking findings above, each needing its own follow-up commit. Landing it as its own PR would have made every one of them cheaper to find, bisect and revert. Worth doing that way next time rather than unpicking this one now.
ONE REAL CONFLICT, in the TUI model's fields. main replaced the /retitle backfill with a local /rename (Gitlawb#826), so its side deletes retitleQueue and the four counters beside it and adds renamePrompt; this branch's side carries the orchestrate plan surface main has never seen. Both, not either: keeping our copy of the retitle fields would have resurrected state whose only callers main removed, leaving it compiling and unreachable. THE POSTURE-OFF GOLDEN MOVED, and it was checked rather than assumed. Gitlawb#838 reworded four tool descriptions (glob, grep, list_directory, read_file), which changes the definition bytes the fingerprint freezes. A moved golden is exactly what a posture leak from this branch would look like, so the two were told apart by measurement: a posture-off run's first request body, compared byte for byte against a binary built from this same main, across --auto low/medium/high/member and --use-spec. All five identical. The absolute sizes moved with main's new wording (33549 -> 31851 on --auto low); the difference between the binaries stayed zero, which is the property the guard exists for. Everything else auto-merged.
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Summary
zero contextgo testpackage output while retaining exact raw output as an artifact and surfacing that state in the TUIWhy
Zero previously exposed full schemas for optional tools on every request, retained repeated recoverable context, relied on weaker read-before-edit state, and issued an extra recap request after every successful TUI turn. This increased fixed context and could cause avoidable model retries and tool calls. The changes keep capabilities discoverable while reducing model-visible noise, strengthening edit safety, and moving recap work off the critical path.
Measured impact
Frozen 10-task comparison using the same ChatGPT provider, GPT-5.5 model, balanced execution profile, task wording, and one iteration per task:
Generated benchmark reports remain outside the repository.
Recap measurement scope
The benchmark runs tasks back-to-back and does not wait for the four-minute idle window, so the figures above do not measure the recap redesign. No token, cost, or latency improvement is claimed for that path. Its behavior is verified separately: scheduling performs no provider work, user activity and disabling recaps cancel in-flight generation, stale results are discarded, and the TUI no longer makes an immediate duplicate recap request after a completed turn. A generated idle recap may use up to 4,800 characters of bounded goal, plan, and recent-conversation context, compared with the previous 1,600-character final-answer input.
Verification
make fmt-checkgo vet ./...go test ./...go test -racecoverage for file tracking, output reduction, tool partitioning, pruning, permission normalization, and recap cancellationgo run ./cmd/zero-release buildgo run ./cmd/zero-release smokemake lint-staticmake vulncheckgit diff HEAD --checkSummary by CodeRabbit
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