The PR8 marker injection appends a sentinel object
{"_ccr_dropped": "<<ccr:HASH N_rows_offloaded>>"} to the kept-items
array on the lossy path so the LLM sees the retrieval pointer in the
prompt. Tests that iterate compressed arrays via subscript access
(e["level"], r["status"], i["labels"], m["text"]) hit KeyError on
the sentinel because it doesn't share the record schema.
Same root cause as the test_quality_retention fixes in PR8 -- these
integration tests were left out of that pass.
Ship a public helper headroom.transforms.smart_crusher.strip_ccr_sentinels
so tests can use it cleanly: `for e in strip_ccr_sentinels(entries):`
and production callers iterating compressed output get a single
canonical filter instead of inlining the _ccr_dropped check.
The 7 previously-failing tests in PR #292 CI now pass:
- langchain test_100_percent_errors_preserved_logs
- langchain test_errors_preserved_with_many_errors
- langchain test_search_results_with_query_term
- mcp test_all_log_errors_preserved
- mcp test_slack_significant_compression_with_content
- mcp test_database_error_status_preserved
- mcp test_github_bugs_partial_preservation
753 tests across the integration + transforms + retention suites pass
locally. Plugin manifests auto-bumped 0.13.3 -> 0.13.4 by the
sync-plugin-versions hook (unrelated to this fix).
