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Tejas Chopra
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feat(compress): reach the lossless provider seam on the general path and default /v1/compress to marker-free output (#2691)
## Description

Two related changes to the compression seams, plus the review fixes for
both. Supersedes #2661 and #2662, which are closed in favour of this
branch — the fixes are inseparable from the code they fix, so reviewing
them together is cheaper than landing two PRs and patching them
afterwards.

**1. A registered lossless provider now competes on the general path.**
The `headroom.transforms.lossless_provider` seam was only ever consulted
from `_lossless_compact_excluded`, gated on `DEFAULT_EXCLUDE_TOOLS`
(`config.py:216` — `Read/Grep/Glob/Write/Edit/WebSearch/WebFetch`).
Gateway traffic carries the caller's own tool names — LiteLLM's
`headroom` guardrail (https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/proxy/headroom) posts
requests containing tools like `search_docs` / `run_ci` / `fetch_rows` —
so a registered provider was structurally unreachable for every
gateway/sidecar deployment. The seam existed; nothing could get to it.

**2. `POST /v1/compress` is marker-free by default.** A CCR marker is
only useful to a caller that also injects the `headroom_retrieve` tool
AND can reach `/v1/retrieve`. Neither holds here: tool injection lives
in the provider request handlers (`handlers/anthropic.py:1894`), never
in `handle_compress`; and every `/v1/retrieve*` route is
`Depends(_require_loopback)` (`server.py:4422, 4470, 4749, 4781`) with
no remote opt-in — `HEADROOM_COMPRESS_ALLOW_REMOTE` drops the loopback
dependency on `/v1/compress` only. So a gateway forwards a `Retrieve
more: hash=…` pointer the model cannot follow, and the proxy pays a CCR
store write nobody reads. `config.mode="ccr"` opts back in.

Closes #

## Type of Change

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

## Changes Made

### Seam — `content_router.py`, `lossless_provider.py`

- `_lossless_first` (STAGE 0, every block on every path) consults
`get_lossless_provider()` and keeps whichever output is smaller.
**Strict no-op when no provider is registered**, which is the default;
and because it is best-of rather than authoritative, a provider can
never do worse than the built-in folds.
- Malformed provider output can no longer escape. Every shape check runs
inside the `try`: result must be `None`, or a 2-element tuple/list of
two `str`. Anything else is ignored at debug level. (Previously the
unpack sat outside the `try`, so a 3-tuple raised `ValueError` up
through `TransformPipeline.apply`, which re-raises.)
- Empty / whitespace-only candidates are rejected rather than silently
replacing block content.
- **Providers are never offered diff content.** Diff folding is
subtractive with no inverse check and a reflowed hunk breaks `git apply`
— the same reason the built-in `diff` fold is restricted at
`content_router.py:2481`.
- The third-party `kind` label is sanitised against `^[a-z0-9_]{1,32}$`
before reaching `transforms_applied` and the per-strategy metric dicts,
so a caller-controlled string cannot explode Prometheus label
cardinality. `fullmatch`, not `match`: `$` also matches before a
trailing newline, which would put a newline in a label.
- `set_lossless_provider(provider, *, verifier=None)` — in lossless-only
mode, where STAGE 0's output is final and there is no marker to recover
from, a registered verifier must confirm the fold or the candidate is
dropped. No verifier registered = today's behaviour. `provider=None`
clears both.
- The provider is invoked once per block, not twice
(`_has_lossless_fold` probes `_lossless_first` and discards the result,
then STAGE 0 recomputes). Bounded memo, wholesale clear on overflow, no
lock — a race costs one redundant fold. The memo keys on the provider
registration generation, so registering or clearing a provider after a
block was already folded takes effect.
- The seam docstring now records that the provider runs on the general
path and inside the parallel compression pool, so it must be thread-safe
as well as deterministic.

### Route — `handlers/openai.py`, `server.py`

- `_derived_compress_pipeline(key, **overrides)` replaces the
copy-pasted pipeline-derivation block; `_no_ccr_pipeline` (the new
default) and `_lossy_inline_pipeline` both use it.
- The default pipeline is **built at startup** and included in
`_eager_preload_transforms`, so a fresh pod does not pay ContentRouter
construction and compressor load on its first request, inside the
compression-executor budget.
- An unrecognised `config.mode` returns 400 naming the valid values
instead of silently falling back to the default.
- Claude-family model names resolve their context limit from the
Anthropic provider. Real divergence:
`bedrock/anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet` is 200000 there and 128000 on the
OpenAI provider. The tokenizer still comes from the OpenAI pipeline's
provider — a separate, larger change, noted in a comment.
- Documents why the derived router deliberately does **not** share the
base router's compression cache: keys do not encode CCR-marker mode, so
sharing would leak marker-laden entries into the marker-free path.

### Behavior change

A `/v1/compress` caller that relied on default markers now gets none.
The only in-tree caller that can resolve them is the TypeScript SDK
(`sdk/typescript/src/client.ts:398 retrieve`, `:422 handleToolCall`); it
needs `config: {"mode": "ccr"}` to keep today's behaviour, and landing
that SDK default in the same release would leave only gateway callers —
for whom markers were never resolvable — seeing a difference.

No `HEADROOM_COMPRESS_DEFAULT_MODE` compat env deliberately: a flag
nobody sets becomes permanent debt, and the wire-level `mode` already
covers the one caller that needs it.

## 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 pytest tests/test_lossless_first_dispatch.py tests/test_lossless_excluded_compaction.py \
    tests/test_lossless_mode.py tests/test_lossless_then_lossy.py tests/test_lossless_diff_fold_guard.py \
    tests/test_bash_search_lossless_fold.py tests/test_proxy_compress_endpoint.py \
    tests/test_ccr_row_drop_store_bridge.py tests/test_gateway_sidecar_ports.py tests/test_compress_api.py \
    tests/test_platform_stabilization_functional.py tests/test_proxy_eager_preload_bind.py \
    tests/test_proxy_warmup.py tests/test_router_registry_smartcrusher.py -q
189 passed in 32.04s

$ ruff check <all 9 changed files>
All checks passed!

$ ruff format --check <all 9 changed files>
9 files already formatted

$ mypy headroom/transforms/content_router.py headroom/transforms/lossless_provider.py \
      headroom/proxy/handlers/openai.py headroom/proxy/server.py
Success: no issues found in 4 source files
```

New tests cover, one concern each: every malformed provider shape; empty
and whitespace-only results; diff content never reaching a provider
(call-recording); `kind` sanitisation including the trailing-newline
case; the verifier accepting / rejecting / raising; clearing a provider
clearing its verifier; single provider invocation per block; memo
invalidation on re-registration; unknown and valid `mode` values; the
default pipeline existing before any request; and Claude vs OpenAI
context-limit resolution with `token_budget` precedence preserved.

## Real Behavior Proof

- **Environment:** macOS arm64, Python 3.12.6, proxy built from
`_proxy_config_from_env()` with the default `coding` savings profile;
Kompress both disabled and offloaded to a remote `kompress-v2-base`
endpoint; `HEADROOM_COMPRESSION_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=300`.
- **Steps:** `POST /v1/compress` over `TestClient` with OpenAI-shaped
payloads under non-excluded tool names (`run_ci`, `list_files`,
`code_search`, `fetch_rows`) — a CI log with ANSI escapes and repeated
lines, a 160-path listing, a 150-line grep dump, a 150-row JSON array;
plus a second payload with a RAG user blob, a 200-row JSON tool result
and a 300-line log. Ran with and without a provider registered via
`set_lossless_provider`.
- **Observed — seam reachability:**

  | Kompress | no provider registered | provider registered |
  |---|---|---|
  | off | 19,284 → 10,265 tokens (46.8%) | 19,284 → **7,879 (59.1%)** |
| on (remote) | 19,284 → 9,366 tokens (51.4%) | 19,284 → **7,146
(62.9%)** |

Before this change the right-hand column was identical to the left — the
registered provider was never called on this payload.

- **Observed — marker-free default costs nothing:**

  | Config | tokens | saved |
  |---|---|---|
  | markers on (previous default) | 37,791 → 24,415 | 35.4% |
| markers off (new default) | 37,791 → 24,415 | **35.4% — identical** |
  | `mode="lossy_inline"` | 37,791 → 25,129 | 33.5% |
  | `--lossless` | 37,791 → 35,100 | 7.1% |

- **Observed — memo staleness, before the fix:** registering a provider
that folds a grep block to 5 bytes left the block at its 1496-byte
built-in fold, and clearing a provider kept serving the provider's
output. Both correct after keying on the registration generation.
- **Observed — context limit:** `bedrock/anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet`
resolves 200000 via the Anthropic provider, 128000 via the OpenAI
provider.
- **Not tested:** `tests/test_transforms_content_router.py` was not run
— it does not complete on this machine, wedging on its 5th test while
that test passes in 5.7s alone. Verified pre-existing before this work:
with the diff stashed, the clean tree stalled at the identical test, and
it stalled the same way under `HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1 HEADROOM_OFFLINE=1`. The
machine was also out of disk at the time, which may be the real cause
rather than the suspected native-detector deadlock (#575) — worth a
separate issue either way. CI should be the arbiter here.

## 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

Two pre-existing test files needed adjusting, both direct consequences
rather than scope creep:

-
`test_platform_stabilization_functional.py::test_v1_compress_success_reports_actual_metrics`
patches `openai_pipeline.apply`, which the default mode no longer routes
through. **This test was already failing on the marker-free-default
commit** before any of the fixes — my original test selection missed it.
It now patches the pipeline the route actually uses.
- `test_proxy_eager_preload_bind.py` substitutes fake pipelines to
control exactly what the preload walks; the eager build injected the
real derived router's statuses into an exact-equality assertion. Its
shared helper now clears the derived cache, preserving each test's
intent without weakening an assertion.

Docs unchecked — follow-ups worth doing in the same release: document
`config.mode` values in `docs/content/docs/litellm.mdx` and
`wiki/proxy.md`; the TS SDK `mode:"ccr"` default; and an operational
note that `COMPRESSION_TIMEOUT_SECONDS` defaults to 30
(`helpers.py:687`) while a remote ML endpoint makes one sequential call
per unit — on a large payload it trips the executor timeout and the
handler fails open, returning `compression_skipped: true` with
`tokens_before: 0`, which reads as "nothing to save" rather than "we
gave up". Those zeroed counters are misleading and worth a separate fix.
2026-07-31 12:31:38 -07:00
Tejas Chopra
60af15f96f
feat(content-router): lossless-first dispatch, cross-turn dedup, and A7 lossy-after-fold (#1818)
## Description

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Closes #

## Type of Change

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

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- [ ] Type checking passes (`mypy headroom`)
- [ ] New tests added for new functionality
- [ ] Manual testing performed

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- [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
- [ ] My changes generate no new warnings
- [ ] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 08:32:06 -07:00