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Tejas Chopra
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fix(beacon): report all-layers savings, not context-compression only (#2796)
## Description

`rates.saved_pct` and `rates.yield_pct` in the beacon payload divide
`tokens_saved` by `original` / `attempted`. Tool-schema deferral never
lands in either denominator — `outcome.py` says so explicitly, and
`tokens.tool_saved` exists precisely because of it — so every beacon
rate silently reports context compression only.

On a tool-heavy fleet that is not a rounding difference. Across the
first 516 sessions in the corpus the beacon reads **2.80%** where the
dashboard headline for the same traffic reads **12.82%**: 157.6M context
tokens vs 803.9M all-layers, with 646.3M of tool-schema deferral missing
from the ratio.

`headroom/proxy/server.py` already resolved this for the dashboard in
#2737 — `savings_percent` is `all_layers_saved / (input +
all_layers_saved)` and `active_savings_percent` puts tool savings on
both sides of the ratio. The beacon was never brought along. This does
that.

Closes #

## Type of Change

- [x] Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to change)
- [ ] Documentation update
- [ ] Performance improvement
- [ ] Code refactoring (no functional changes)

## Changes Made

- `headroom/telemetry/session.py`: add `rates.all_layers_saved_pct` and
`rates.all_layers_yield_pct`, computed the way `server.py` builds
`savings_percent` / `active_savings_percent` — tool savings added to
**both** sides, since deferred schemas were attempted work that
succeeded whole.
- `headroom/telemetry/session.py`: extend the `demo()` self-test to
assert both new rates against the existing tool-heavy fixture.
- `deploy/beacon/query.sh`: add an `all_layers_pct` column to the fleet
summary, so the reader stops showing the understated number too.

**Kept alongside `saved_pct` rather than folded into it.** Every row
already in the corpus means context-only under that name; redefining it
would make old and new rows non-comparable with no field to tell them
apart.

**`SCHEMA_VERSION` deliberately stays at 1.** The change is purely
additive, nothing reads the field, and the query uses `union_by_name =
true`, so old and new rows mix cleanly. Happy to bump it if maintainers
want the marker.

## Testing

- [x] Unit tests pass (`pytest`)
- [x] Linting passes (`ruff check .`)
- [x] Type checking passes (`mypy headroom`)
- [x] New tests added for new functionality
- [x] Manual testing performed

### Test Output

```text
$ python -m headroom.telemetry.session
ok

$ python -m pytest tests/test_savings_tool_search_aggregation.py tests/test_outcome_dual_ruler_funnel.py -q
FAILED tests/test_outcome_dual_ruler_funnel.py::test_ledger_delta_stays_on_the_local_ruler
FAILED tests/test_outcome_dual_ruler_funnel.py::test_ledger_falls_back_to_billed_when_local_omitted
2 failed, 5 passed, 3 warnings in 4.42s

$ ruff check headroom/
All checks passed!

$ mypy --python-version 3.12 headroom/telemetry/session.py
Success: no issues found in 1 source file
```

The two `test_outcome_dual_ruler_funnel.py` failures are **pre-existing
on `main`, not caused by this PR** — verified by `git stash`-ing the
change and re-running:

```text
$ git stash && python -m pytest tests/test_outcome_dual_ruler_funnel.py -q
FAILED tests/test_outcome_dual_ruler_funnel.py::test_ledger_delta_stays_on_the_local_ruler
FAILED tests/test_outcome_dual_ruler_funnel.py::test_ledger_falls_back_to_billed_when_local_omitted
2 failed, 3 passed, 3 warnings in 3.71s
```

## Real Behavior Proof

- **Environment:** macOS 25.4.0 arm64, Python 3.12.6, repo `.venv`,
branch rebased on `upstream/main` @ `d0a86d40`.

- **Exact command / steps:** drive a real `SessionAggregator` with a
tool-heavy outcome (`original=1000`, `attempted=400`,
`tokens_saved=300`, plus `tool_search_deferred_tokens=800` and
`turn_hook_tools_saved_tokens=200`) and print the emitted payload's
`rates` block:

```text
tokens: {"original": 1000, "attempted": 400, "saved": 300, "tool_saved": 1000}
rates:  {
  "saved_pct": 30.0,
  "eligible_pct": 40.0,
  "yield_pct": 75.0,
  "all_layers_saved_pct": 65.0,
  "all_layers_yield_pct": 92.86,
  "cache_read_pct": 50.0,
  "overhead_pct": 5.0
}
```

- **Observed result:** the pre-existing rates are byte-identical (30.0 /
40.0 / 75.0 / 50.0 / 5.0 — no regression), and the two new fields report
the all-layers view: 1300 saved of 2000 sent = **65.0%**, 1300 of 1400
attempted = **92.86%**. Both denominators grow with the numerator,
matching `server.py`.

Cross-checked against the live corpus with DuckDB over the R2 bucket —
restating all 516 sessions both ways reproduces the gap this PR closes:

```text
┌───────────┬────────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
│ ctx_saved │ tool_saved │ all_layers_saved │ beacon_saved_pct │ dashboard_saved_pct │
├───────────┼────────────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│ 157561051 │ 646293457  │ 803854508        │ 2.8              │ 12.82               │
└───────────┴────────────┴──────────────────┴──────────────────┴─────────────────────┘
```

- **Not tested:** no live proxy run was made against a real provider —
the payload above comes from `SessionAggregator` driven directly, which
is the same code path the proxy feeds. The 516 sessions already in R2
are **not backfilled**: they carry `tool_saved`, so the corrected rate
is computable from them today, but their own `rates` block stays
context-only. Only sessions emitted from the next release carry the new
fields.

## Review Readiness

- [x] I have performed a self-review
- [x] This PR is ready for human review

## Checklist

- [x] My code follows the project's style guidelines
- [x] I have performed a self-review of my code
- [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
- [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
- [x] My changes generate no new warnings
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works
- [x] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
- [x] I did **not** edit `CHANGELOG.md`

## Additional Notes

- **Documentation:** N/A — no doc references the beacon `rates` field
names (`grep -rn "saved_pct\|yield_pct" docs/` returns nothing). The
field semantics are documented inline in `session.py`, which this PR
extends.
- **Worth a maintainer opinion:** the dashboard formula adds
`tool_saved` to the *denominator* as well. That is defensible — deferred
schemas were attempted work that succeeded 100% — but it does mean a
tool-heavy session's ratio is partly measuring a layer that is
near-always at full yield. This PR matches the dashboard rather than
inventing a third convention; if the convention should change, it should
change in both places at once.
- **Follow-up:** nothing here changes what the fleet actually saved,
only what the beacon admits to. The 4.6x gap was reporting, not
performance.
2026-08-05 08:33:04 -07:00
Tejas Chopra
9cfb00838a
fix(telemetry): anonymous compression stats — no prompts, no data (#2728)
## In one line

Headroom starts reporting **how well compression is working** — counters
and percentages only. **No prompts. No code. No file paths. Nothing
about what you're building.**

## Why

Right now nobody knows whether compression actually helps real users.
You can see your own numbers in `/stats`, but that's it — there's no way
to tell whether a given workload compresses well, or why it sometimes
doesn't. This closes that loop so we can make compression better for
everyone.

## Exactly what gets sent

One message per session, and every 5 minutes while you're active:

```json
{
  "session":     { "id": "random", "turns": 47, "duration_s": 4210, "seq": 3 },
  "tokens":      { "original": 890000, "attempted": 410000, "saved": 320000,
                   "tool_saved": 48000, "cache_read": 210000 },
  "rates":       { "saved_pct": 35.96, "eligible_pct": 46.07, "yield_pct": 78.05,
                   "cache_read_pct": 23.60, "overhead_pct": 1.96 },
  "compression": { "transforms": {"crush": 47}, "passthrough_turns": 0 },
  "skips":       {},
  "sources":     { "proxy": 47 },
  "providers":   ["anthropic"],
  "models":      ["claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929"],
  "failures":    2
}
```

Plus a random install ID, the Headroom version, and OS/architecture
(`darwin`, `arm64`).

That's the whole thing. A full example lives at
`deploy/beacon/sample-event.json`.

## What is never sent

- Your prompts or the model's responses
- Your code
- File paths, project names, repo names
- Tool names or MCP server names
- Hostname, username, or IP address
- Custom or fine-tuned model names (an id like `ft:gpt-4o:acme-corp:…`
contains a company name, so only models in a public registry are
reported)

**This is structural, not a pinky-swear.** Every value in the payload is
a number, a fixed word, or a random ID — there is no free-text field
anywhere for content to hide in. The receiver
(`deploy/beacon/worker.js`, in this repo so you can read it) drops
anything not on an explicit allowlist before storing.

## Turning it off

Any one of these:

```bash
HEADROOM_BEACON=off      # or
DO_NOT_TRACK=1           # or
# offline mode
```

It's on by default, and Headroom says so at startup:

```
Telemetry:    anonymous compression stats — never prompts, code, or file paths.
              Helps us improve compression | Off: HEADROOM_BEACON=off
```

`HEADROOM_TELEMETRY` is a **separate** switch that still only affects
local stats. If you had turned that on, this change does not start
uploading anything — you answered a different question, and upgrading
should not change the answer.

## Why the percentages, not just "tokens saved"

"We saved 36%" hides the interesting part. In the example above only
**46% of tokens were eligible** for compression at all — the rest is
frozen cache prefix and system prompts we deliberately do not touch. Of
what we *could* touch, we removed **78%**.

Those are two separate problems. Raising eligibility is proxy work;
raising yield is compressor work. A single number cannot tell us which
to fix.

## Coverage

`emit_request_outcome` is a single chokepoint —
`handler.metrics.record_request` is called from exactly one place,
inside the funnel — so all 30 `RequestOutcome` construction sites are
covered: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Bedrock, batch, streaming, and the
long-lived Codex Responses-WS path.

The `headroom_compress` MCP path bypassed that funnel and is now wired
in separately. It has a different shape (no provider, no upstream
latency, and everything handed to the tool is eligible by construction),
so `sources` counts turns by origin — MCP turns always read
`eligible_pct: 100` and must not drag the proxy's real eligibility
ceiling upward.

**Subagents.** All subagent traffic through the proxy merges into one
session, which is correct for savings and retention but means `turns`
conflates fan-out with depth. Fan-out is still derivable —
`compression.latency_ms_total / session.duration_s` gives the
concurrency ratio (~1x serial, ~4x for four parallel agents), so no
extra field is needed. Verified no lost updates under 6-way concurrency
(1,200 turns).

**Known gap:** `--workers N` gives each process its own aggregator, so
one user session becomes up to N. Token totals and fleet rates stay
correct; session counts inflate. This matches the existing documented
limitation that TOIN state, CostTracker, and the prefix tracker are all
per-process.

## Notes for reviewers

- **Cumulative snapshots, not deltas.** Every report restates running
totals under one session ID, so the highest `seq` per `(install,
session)` is the complete session. Dedupe is a window function, and a
lost report costs nothing.
- **Never breaks the proxy.** Every path swallows its own exceptions;
uploads go out on a daemon thread so nothing blocks the request loop.
- **Explicit User-Agent is load-bearing.** urllib's default is blocked
by Cloudflare (error 1010). Combined with fire-and-forget error
handling, that would have failed every upload while looking perfectly
healthy.
- **The exit flush was broken and is fixed.** `atexit` handed the POST
to a daemon thread, and daemon threads are killed before they finish
during interpreter shutdown — so nothing was sent. That silently dropped
*every session shorter than the 5-minute heartbeat*, plus all
short-lived subagent MCP processes. The exit path now posts
synchronously with a 2s timeout.
- Receiver and query tooling are in `deploy/beacon/`.

## Testing

- `python -m headroom.telemetry.session` self-check: dedupe, cumulative
totals, dropped-report recovery, payload contains no model id or
prompt-derived string, allowlist coverage
- 175 telemetry/outcome tests pass; 6 new ones cover the opt-out notice
- Verified end to end against a live deployment: client → receiver →
storage → query

## Still to do before release

The default endpoint currently points at a temporary `workers.dev` URL.
It needs to move to a Headroom-owned hostname before this ships in a
tagged release — noted inline at `DEFAULT_ENDPOINT`.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 05:43:25 -07:00