headroom/tests/test_remote_kompress_dropin.py
Tejas Chopra 8884d87378
fix(transforms): stop compression garbling mixed subagent output (#3286)
## The report

A user's model called compressed subagent output "too garbled to use"
and burned CCR retrievals to reconstruct it — **not** because it needed
more context. One retrieval returned nothing but the Claude Code harness
sanitizer banner, reported as `original_item_count: 33,
compressed_item_count: 25`.

Root-cause chain (verified by reproduction): the harness prepends a
bracket-delimited banner (`[harness: ... you.]` — exactly 33
whitespace-delimited words) and neutralizes `<` → `<\`. Headroom's
mixed-content splitter typed the banner as JSON (bracket balance, no
validation) → SmartCrusher couldn't parse it → the fallback chain fed it
to lossy Kompress → Kompress word-dropped the banner 33→25 and stored it
behind a retrieval hash. Meanwhile tabular sections rendered as
quote-wrapped JSON-string blobs with `\n` as two-character escapes, and
`ensure_ascii=True` boundaries turned the output's unicode (`→ └ ✓`)
into `\uXXXX` soup. The model reasonably concluded the output was
garbled.

## Fixes

1. **`split_into_sections` validates JSON before typing a block
`JSON_ARRAY`** — same validation its own mixed-content gate
(`_has_valid_json_block_with_text`) has always used. Tag-protection
placeholders, which self-isolated only by accident of that bug
(`{{HEADROOM_TAG_N}}` bracket-balances), are now isolated explicitly via
a new `isolate=` parameter fed by the router; contiguous prose fragments
re-coalesce so the `\n\n` reassembly stops doubling newlines in
uncompressed prose.
2. **Kompress gets a real floor: `min_input_words = 64`**
(config-tunable, clamped at the historical 10), applied on the
in-process, batch, apply, and remote paths. Below it, lossy
word-dropping is a net loss — the retrieval marker alone is ~20 words —
and short blocks are disproportionately instruction-like.
3. **The mixed path unwraps SmartCrusher's whole-array CSV render** when
it comes back as a bare JSON string, splicing raw readable lines into
the text instead of a quoted escape blob.
4. **`ensure_ascii=False` at model-visible boundaries**: MCP
retrieve/stats responses and the audit-safe splice reserialization
(which now also matches serde_json's non-escaping behavior).
5. **Kompress honesty**: the marker says `N words compressed to M`
(shared `ccr_retrieval_marker` helper, unit-tested), and
`store_kompress_in_ccr` no longer writes word counts into the store's
*item count* fields — token counts already carry the size story.

The upstream trigger (the harness's `<` → `<\` neutralization corrupting
JSON semantics) is not Headroom's to fix, but with #1 and #2 the banner
now passes through byte-intact and nothing lossy touches it.

## Testing

- New `tests/test_garbled_compression_fixes.py` (12 tests) pins every
fix, including an end-to-end router pass over a reconstructed
harness-sanitized fixture asserting the banner survives byte-identical
and no `\uXXXX` appears.
- Existing small-fixture kompress/router tests updated to set
`min_input_words=10` explicitly (they test other mechanics; fixtures sit
under the new production floor by design).
- Affected sweep (`-k "compress or ccr or crusher or router or mixed or
kompress or hermes"`, ~2.9k tests): green apart from order-dependent
flakes that shift identity between runs (deepseek tokenizer `AutoConfig`
import, hermes/proxy-ccr) — each passes standalone and in direct
combination with the new tests; the full CI shards are the authoritative
check.
- ruff 0.16.3 `check` + `format --check` clean.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 13:22:26 +05:30

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"""RemoteKompressCompressor must really be a drop-in for KompressCompressor.
Its module docstring promises the class "mirrors KompressCompressor's public
surface (``is_ready`` / ``preload`` / ``ensure_background_load`` / ``compress``),
so it is a drop-in at the ContentRouter seam". That promise silently lapsed:
the local ``compress`` gained a ``ccr_original`` keyword and the remote one did
not.
ContentRouter passes ``ccr_original`` whenever custom tags are protected. On any
deployment with ``HEADROOM_KOMPRESS_ENDPOINT`` set — which is exactly the
sandboxed/enterprise install the remote compressor exists for — every such
request raised
TypeError: RemoteKompressCompressor.compress() got an unexpected keyword
argument 'ccr_original'
ContentRouter caught it with a broad ``except Exception`` and logged
``Kompress failed: ...`` at WARNING. The request then forwarded uncompressed
with ``tok_saved=0`` and the proxy reported success, so the deployment lost ALL
ML compression while every dashboard read "working, 0 saved".
From a field log (Copilot Chat on Windows, 0.36.x), on every single request:
WARNING Kompress failed: RemoteKompressCompressor.compress() got an
unexpected keyword argument 'ccr_original'
INFO [router] route_counts={...} compressed=0 frozen=1 msgs=2
INFO PERF ... tok_before=1623 tok_after=1623 tok_saved=0 savings=none
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import inspect
import pytest
from headroom.transforms.kompress_compressor import KompressCompressor
from headroom.transforms.kompress_remote import RemoteKompressCompressor
def _kwargs(fn) -> set[str]:
"""Public keywords only.
``_deadline_started_at`` is underscore-prefixed and only ever passed by
kompress_compressor to itself on its recursive batch path — it never crosses
the ContentRouter seam, so it is genuinely private and not part of the
drop-in contract.
"""
return {
name
for name, p in inspect.signature(fn).parameters.items()
if name != "self"
and not name.startswith("_")
and p.kind in (p.POSITIONAL_OR_KEYWORD, p.KEYWORD_ONLY)
}
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# The contract
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
def test_remote_compress_accepts_every_local_keyword() -> None:
"""The drift guard. This is what would have caught the reported bug."""
local = _kwargs(KompressCompressor.compress)
remote = _kwargs(RemoteKompressCompressor.compress)
missing = local - remote
assert not missing, (
f"RemoteKompressCompressor.compress is missing {sorted(missing)}. "
"ContentRouter calls both through one seam, so a keyword the local "
"compressor accepts and the remote one does not becomes a TypeError "
"that ContentRouter swallows into a warning — silently disabling "
"compression for the whole deployment."
)
@pytest.mark.parametrize("method", ["is_ready", "preload", "ensure_background_load", "compress"])
def test_the_promised_public_surface_exists(method: str) -> None:
assert callable(getattr(RemoteKompressCompressor, method, None))
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# The reported failure, end to end through the real call shape
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
class _FakeResponse:
status_code = 200
def __init__(self, payload: dict) -> None:
self._payload = payload
def raise_for_status(self) -> None:
return None
def json(self) -> dict:
return self._payload
class _FakeClient:
def __init__(self, payload: dict) -> None:
self._payload = payload
self.calls: list[dict] = []
def post(self, url, headers=None, json=None): # noqa: A002, ANN001
self.calls.append(json or {})
return _FakeResponse(self._payload)
def close(self) -> None:
return None
def _compressor(monkeypatch, *, enable_ccr: bool, payload: dict):
monkeypatch.setenv("HEADROOM_KOMPRESS_ENDPOINT", "https://ml.example.invalid")
c = RemoteKompressCompressor("https://ml.example.invalid")
c._client = _FakeClient(payload) # type: ignore[assignment]
c.config.enable_ccr = enable_ccr
# The 60-word fixtures below sit under the production word floor
# (min_input_words=64); drop it to the clamp so the seam under test runs.
c.config.min_input_words = 10
return c
ORIGINAL = "real secret block " * 20
PLACEHOLDER = "{{HEADROOM_TAG_0}} " * 20
def test_passing_ccr_original_no_longer_raises(monkeypatch) -> None:
"""The bug itself: this call is what ContentRouter makes."""
c = _compressor(
monkeypatch,
enable_ccr=False,
payload={"compressed": "short", "compression_ratio": 0.2},
)
result = c.compress(
PLACEHOLDER,
context="",
question=None,
target_ratio=0.5,
allow_download=False,
ccr_original=ORIGINAL,
)
assert result.compressed == "short"
def test_ccr_stores_the_pre_protection_text_not_the_placeholder(monkeypatch) -> None:
"""Fixing only the TypeError would leave retrieval returning a placeholder."""
stored: dict = {}
def _fake_store(original, compressed, original_tokens): # noqa: ANN001
stored["original"] = original
stored["tokens"] = original_tokens
return "cafebabe"
monkeypatch.setattr("headroom.transforms.kompress_remote.store_kompress_in_ccr", _fake_store)
c = _compressor(
monkeypatch,
enable_ccr=True,
payload={"compressed": "short", "compression_ratio": 0.2},
)
result = c.compress(PLACEHOLDER, ccr_original=ORIGINAL)
assert stored["original"] == ORIGINAL
assert "HEADROOM_TAG" not in stored["original"]
# Token count describes what was actually stored, not the placeholder.
assert stored["tokens"] == len(ORIGINAL.split())
assert result.cache_key == "cafebabe"
def test_the_common_path_without_an_override_is_unchanged(monkeypatch) -> None:
stored: dict = {}
def _fake_store(original, compressed, original_tokens): # noqa: ANN001
stored["original"] = original
stored["tokens"] = original_tokens
return "d00d"
monkeypatch.setattr("headroom.transforms.kompress_remote.store_kompress_in_ccr", _fake_store)
c = _compressor(
monkeypatch,
enable_ccr=True,
payload={
"compressed": "short",
"compression_ratio": 0.2,
"original_tokens": 999,
},
)
c.compress(ORIGINAL)
assert stored["original"] == ORIGINAL
# Still the endpoint's own count when no override was supplied.
assert stored["tokens"] == 999