headroom/scripts
Tejas Chopra e0ce4b1d48
fix: remove rtk and lean-ctx CLI context tools (#2677)
## Description

Removes both third-party CLI context tools — **rtk** and **lean-ctx** —
and with them the context-tool selector itself. Headroom no longer
downloads, installs or configures either one, and there is no
replacement.

The previous pass (#2344) gated only three entry points inside
`headroom/cli/wrap.py`. That left the feature reachable in practice:

| Gap | Effect |
|---|---|
| `scripts/install.sh:1544`, `install.ps1:1681` | Ran `rtk init --global
--auto-patch` from bash/PowerShell, **bypassing the Python gate
entirely** — `curl \| sh` still wrote a Claude Code `PreToolUse` hook
regardless of `HEADROOM_RTK` |
| `wrap.py` `_setup_context_tool_for_agent` | **`wrap openhands` was
broken by default**: `rtk_required=True` met a gate returning `None` →
`SystemExit(1)`. Invisible because all 8 openhands tests patched
`_ensure_rtk_binary` to a fake path |
| `proxy/helpers.py`, `subscription/tracker.py` | Proxy shelled out to
`rtk gain` from `/stats`, the dashboard and `headroom perf`; the tracker
polled it per contribution (`_RTK_WIRING_DEFAULT = "enabled"`) |
| No cleanup path | Nothing removed artifacts an earlier default had
installed, so a machine that once ran the old default kept rtk in the
loop forever (#1669, #1955) |

Also worth noting: the rtk binary download had **no SHA or signature
verification** — only `rtk --version` as a smoke test.

## Type of Change

- [x] Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
- [ ] 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
- [x] Code refactoring (no functional changes)

## Changes Made

**Removed** — `headroom/rtk/` and `headroom/lean_ctx/` packages,
`headroom/cli/wrap_rtk_metrics.py`, `_selected_context_tool` /
`_setup_context_tool_for_agent` / `_VALID_CONTEXT_TOOLS`, the `--rtk` /
`--no-rtk` / `--no-project-rtk` / `--keep-rtk` flags across all 18 wrap
subcommands, `HEADROOM_RTK*`, the proxy-side `rtk gain` polling, the
dashboard CLI-filtering panel (rows + all 8 `cliFiltering*` Alpine
getters), `paths.rtk_path()` / `lean_ctx_path()`, the SDK path helpers,
`benchmarks/rtk_loop_learn_eval.py`, and the `headroom/rtk/**` CI path
filters.

**Fails loudly, not silently** — `--context-tool` / `--no-context-tool`
/ `HEADROOM_CONTEXT_TOOL` are kept solely to error out. They live in
shell profiles, aliases and CI jobs, and accepting them as a no-op would
read as Headroom having quietly stopped working. The installers reject
them too, which matters more than it looks: their arg parsers forward
the first unknown flag **and everything after it** to the wrapped tool,
so a leftover `--no-rtk` would have silently swallowed a following
`--port` and then been ignored downstream.

**New `headroom/context_tool_cleanup.py`** — deleting the code cannot
help a machine that already ran the old default, since the hooks,
binaries and injected guidance are durable on disk.
`purge_context_tool_artifacts()` runs once per `wrap`/`unwrap` and
removes the registered hook entries, the generated hook scripts, the
Headroom-managed `~/.local/bin` symlinks, the vendored
`~/.headroom/bin/{rtk,lean-ctx}` binaries, the `lean-ctx` MCP server
entry and the marker-fenced instruction blocks. Deliberately
conservative: idempotent, **skips** a malformed config rather than
overwriting it, and only unlinks a symlink resolving inside Headroom's
own bin dir so a user's own build is untouched. It reports on
**stderr**, because `wrap/unwrap openclaw --prepare-only` emit
machine-readable JSON on stdout as their entire contract. Skipped for
`wrap selfheal` (runs from a SessionStart hook; must not race Claude
Code's writer for `~/.claude.json`) and for `--help`, which must stay
read-only.

**Client-config hardening** (discovered while investigating a "corrupted
Serena settings file" report) — `wrap.py` reset a settings file to `{}`
when an existing file would not parse, then wrote that back. One
hand-edited typo or a transient `EACCES`/`EINTR` on a valid file
destroyed the user's `permissions`, `env` and `hooks`, on **every
`headroom wrap claude`**. It now refuses to write. Separately,
`fsutil.write_text` is now atomic (temp file + `fsync` + `os.replace`),
fixing all 14 non-atomic client-config writes at once; it follows
symlinks rather than replacing them (dotfile managers) and preserves an
existing file's mode.

**Deliberately kept** — `rtk` stays in the wrapper-peel list in
`transforms/content_router.py`. It sits beside `sudo`/`env`/`timeout` as
shell-command grammar, so `rtk cat f` is still classified as a file read
for anyone running their own rtk install, which the purge intentionally
leaves alone.

## 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
$ ruff check headroom/ tests/ e2e/ --exclude headroom/dashboard/templates
All checks passed!

$ ruff format --check headroom/ tests/ e2e/ --exclude headroom/dashboard/templates
1255 files already formatted

$ mypy headroom/
Success: no issues found in 508 source files

$ pytest tests/test_context_tool_cleanup.py -q
11 passed

$ pytest tests/test_fsutil.py -q
12 passed

$ pytest tests/test_cli/test_wrap_codex.py -q            # 89 tests
89 passed in 431.68s
$ pytest tests/test_cli/test_wrap_opencode.py -q
39 passed in 257.46s
$ pytest tests/test_cli/test_wrap_helpers.py -q
45 passed
$ pytest tests/test_paths.py -q
75 passed
$ pytest tests/test_cli/test_unwrap_claude.py -q
14 passed
$ pytest tests/test_proxy_savings_history.py -q
39 passed
$ pytest tests/test_cli/test_wrap_copilot.py -q
27 passed
$ pytest tests/test_cli/test_wrap_zcode.py -q
20 passed
$ pytest tests/test_subscription_tracker.py -q
9 passed
$ pytest tests/test_proxy_dashboard_stats_cache.py -q
5 passed, 1 skipped
```

Repo-wide grep for 14 removed symbols (`headroom.rtk`,
`headroom.lean_ctx`, `_ensure_rtk_binary`, `_selected_context_tool`,
`_get_context_tool_stats`, `rtk_path`, `lean_ctx_path`,
`wrap_rtk_metrics`, `HEADROOM_RTK`, `cli_tokens_avoided`,
`tokens_saved_rtk`, …) across `*.py`, `*.ts`, `*.sh`, `*.ps1`, `*.yml`,
`*.html`: **zero hits**.

Notable test changes: `test_wrap_openhands.py` no longer patches
`_ensure_rtk_binary` and asserts `wrap openhands --prepare-only` exits 0
unpatched — the regression that was previously masked.
`test_wrap_continue.py` and `test_wrap_hintfile_agents.py` were removed
(every test drove RTK instruction injection). A new
`test_subscription_tracker.py::test_load_state_written_before_cli_context_tools_were_removed`
proves a pre-removal `subscription_state.json` still loads.

## Real Behavior Proof

- **Environment:** macOS 15.4 (darwin 25.4.0), Python 3.12.6, Headroom @
this branch, real `~/.headroom` and `~/.claude` on the dev machine.
- **Exact command / steps and observed result:**

```text
# 1. Retired flag fails loudly instead of silently no-op'ing
$ headroom wrap codex --prepare-only --context-tool rtk
Error: CLI context tools (rtk, lean-ctx) have been removed from Headroom: they
rewrote shell commands through a third-party binary Headroom no longer manages.
Drop --context-tool / --no-context-tool and unset HEADROOM_CONTEXT_TOOL;
`headroom wrap` uninstalls what they left behind on first run.

$ HEADROOM_CONTEXT_TOOL=lean-ctx headroom wrap codex --prepare-only
Error: CLI context tools (rtk, lean-ctx) have been removed from Headroom: ...

# 2. install.sh rejects the retired flags (extracted parse_wrap_args harness)
['--no-rtk', '--port', '9999']   rc=1  ERROR: CLI context tools ... Drop --no-rtk
['--context-tool=rtk']           rc=1  ERROR: CLI context tools ... Drop --context-tool
$ bash -n scripts/install.sh   # syntax OK

# 3. Purge ran against the real machine, which had all the orphaned artifacts
$ python -c "from headroom.context_tool_cleanup import purge_context_tool_artifacts; ..."
  removed ~/.headroom/bin/lean-ctx        (51 MB)
  removed ~/.headroom/bin/rtk             (7.7 MB)
  removed ~/.local/bin/rtk                (symlink into ~/.headroom/bin)
  removed ~/.claude/hooks/rtk-rewrite.sh
  removed 8 lean-ctx-* hook scripts
# ~/.claude.json afterwards: 90 top-level keys, 19 projects, mcpServers unchanged
# → ~59 MB reclaimed, no unrelated key touched

# 4. stdout stays machine-readable while the purge reports (planted a fake artifact)
$ headroom wrap openclaw --prepare-only --gateway-provider-id codex >out 2>err
$ cat out
{"enabled":true,"config":{"proxyPort":8787,...}}     # parses as JSON
$ cat err
Retired CLI context tool cleanup: removed /Users/tcms/.headroom/bin/rtk

# 5. --help is inert (planted artifact survives), a real run purges
$ headroom wrap codex --help   → artifact survived: CORRECT
$ headroom wrap openclaw --prepare-only → purged: CORRECT

# 6. MCP purge dry-run against a copy of the real 82 KB ~/.claude.json
top-level keys 90 -> 90;  projects 19 -> 19;  LOST keys: none
all content outside mcpServers byte-identical: True
```

Dashboard rendered via the Playwright test after the panel removal:
"Token Savings" shows only `Proxy 0 (0.0%)` / `Of total wire: 36.86%`,
and "Token Usage" reads Before Compression → Proxy Removed → After
Compression with no "Filtered (this session)" row. Nothing below the
removed panel broke.

- **Not tested:** Windows and Linux (macOS only) — `install.ps1` is
verified by brace-balance and inspection, not executed, since no `pwsh`
is available locally. The wrap e2e suite (`e2e/wrap/run.py`) was updated
but not run; it needs the Docker e2e image. `serena project index`
interaction is exercised in the stacked base PR.

## 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
- [x] 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` — it is generated by
release-please from my Conventional Commit PR title (a CI guard enforces
this)

## Additional Notes

**Stacked on #2676** (`tejas/serena-config-bootstrap`) — please merge
that first; this PR's base should then be retargeted to `main`, or it
will read as containing that fix too.

**Breaking-change migration for users:**
- Drop `--rtk`, `--no-rtk`, `--no-project-rtk`, `--keep-rtk`,
`--context-tool`, `--no-context-tool` from any alias, script or CI job,
and unset `HEADROOM_RTK*` / `HEADROOM_CONTEXT_TOOL`. They now error
rather than being ignored, so the failure is immediate and
self-explaining.
- Previously-installed artifacts are purged automatically on the next
`wrap`/`unwrap`; no manual cleanup needed.
- `headroom perf --json` no longer carries a `cli_filtering` key, and
`/stats` no longer returns a `context_tool` section.

**Docs:** `docs/rtk-architecture.md` deleted; RTK/lean-ctx removed from
`README.md`,
`docs/content/docs/{configuration,opencode,grok-build,docker-install,filesystem-contract}.mdx`,
`docs/observability.md` and the matching `wiki/` pages.
`REALIGNMENT/09-phase-G-rtk-observability.md` is marked SUPERSEDED
rather than deleted, to keep the planning record.

**Follow-ups not in scope:** `_emit_wrap_interrupted` was deleted as
dead code — its only caller was the `except KeyboardInterrupt` guarding
the binary download, so with no download there is nothing slow left to
interrupt.
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ci ci: harden PR governance and model cache checks (#1401) 2026-06-26 21:34:34 -07:00
fixtures feat(scripts): add Codex proxy reconnect-storm repro harness 2026-04-20 22:02:02 +07:00
tests fix(release): sync generated version metadata on the release branch (#2659) 2026-07-29 15:12:04 -07:00
audit_wheel_glibc_symbols.py fix(crusher): shim __libc_single_threaded for glibc < 2.32 + extend audit 2026-05-05 13:59:21 -07:00
bootstrap-windows-dev.ps1 chore(release): harden local artifact smokes (#1824) 2026-07-14 16:07:34 -04:00
build_npm_release_assets.mjs chore(release): harden local artifact smokes (#1824) 2026-07-14 16:07:34 -04:00
build_python_release_smoke.py chore(release): harden local artifact smokes (#1824) 2026-07-14 16:07:34 -04:00
build_rust_extension.sh refactor: single-wheel maturin build backend (fixes #355) 2026-05-03 13:16:41 -07:00
changelog-gen.py chore: renormalize line endings to LF 2026-04-24 15:33:30 +02:00
eval_output_shaper.py feat: output-token reduction — verbosity shaper, per-user learning, counterfactual savings (#965) 2026-06-16 21:06:43 -07:00
export_kompress_v2_onnx.py feat: switch Kompress default to kompress-v2-base with weight-only int8 ONNX (#799) 2026-06-09 23:28:40 -07:00
install-git-hooks.sh Fix CI lint failure by formatting PR governance scripts (#933) 2026-06-12 17:11:39 -05:00
install.ps1 fix: remove rtk and lean-ctx CLI context tools (#2677) 2026-07-30 22:59:41 -07:00
install.sh fix: remove rtk and lean-ctx CLI context tools (#2677) 2026-07-30 22:59:41 -07:00
pr-governance.py ci: harden PR governance and model cache checks (#1401) 2026-06-26 21:34:34 -07:00
README.md chore(release): harden local artifact smokes (#1824) 2026-07-14 16:07:34 -04:00
record_code_compressor_fixtures.py feat(rust): port CodeCompressor AST compressor to Rust (parity-only) (#1154) 2026-07-27 09:21:57 -07:00
record_fixtures.py feat(rust): scaffold workspace + parity harness (phase-0) 2026-04-24 13:39:48 -07:00
record_kompress_fixtures.py feat(rust): port Kompress ML prose compressor to Rust (parity-only) (#1153) 2026-07-27 08:17:53 -07:00
refresh_model_limits.sh fix(rust): wire ICM compressor into Rust proxy on /v1/messages 2026-05-01 16:44:44 -07:00
release_smoke_all.py chore(release): harden local artifact smokes (#1824) 2026-07-14 16:07:34 -04:00
replay_codex_ws_load.py fix(tests): ship scripts/replay_codex_ws_load.py so CI can import it 2026-05-14 13:44:41 -07:00
repro_codex_replay.py fix: replace asyncio.timeout with 3.10-compat shim in repro harness 2026-04-20 13:41:02 -05:00
smoke_issue_327.py fix(proxy): remove content-keyed TTL walker that conflated content with positional cache (#327) 2026-05-01 12:04:28 -07:00
sync-plugin-versions.py fix(proxy): lazy-import server to avoid fastapi crash (#442) 2026-06-10 12:44:23 -05:00
validate-workflows.sh ci: scope PR workflow runs by changed paths (#1067) 2026-06-16 19:11:45 -07:00
verify-ruff-version.py fix(ci): align Ruff tooling versions (#2406) 2026-07-18 20:55:20 -07:00
verify-versions.py fix: make proxy upgrades version-aware 2026-05-09 15:58:27 -07:00
verify_npm_release_assets.mjs chore(release): harden local artifact smokes (#1824) 2026-07-14 16:07:34 -04:00
version-sync.py fix(release): sync generated version metadata on the release branch (#2659) 2026-07-29 15:12:04 -07:00

scripts/

Utility scripts bundled with the Headroom repo. Most are one-off operator tools; a few are runnable as part of development workflows.

Reproducing the reconnect storm

repro_codex_replay.py reproduces the multi-agent Codex reconnect/retry storm against a local Headroom proxy (default http://127.0.0.1:8787). Use it to:

  • Regression-check that /livez stays responsive under a cold-start storm.
  • Empirically tune the Unit 4 pre-upstream semaphore default (HEADROOM_ANTHROPIC_PRE_UPSTREAM_CONCURRENCY).
  • Exercise the Codex WS lifecycle + Anthropic HTTP path simultaneously without needing to replay captured production traffic.

Run

# Default: 8 WS + 4 HTTP clients, 30s storm, p99 /livez must stay <= 500ms.
python scripts/repro_codex_replay.py

# Tighter budget, shorter run:
python scripts/repro_codex_replay.py \
    --url http://127.0.0.1:8787 \
    --ws-clients 16 \
    --anthropic-clients 8 \
    --duration 60 \
    --livez-threshold-ms 100

# Dump the full summary as JSON for downstream tooling:
python scripts/repro_codex_replay.py --json

Exit code:

  • 0 — warmup succeeded (or was skipped), storm ran for the requested duration, and /livez p99 stayed under --livez-threshold-ms.
  • 1 — soft assertion failed, proxy unreachable, or unhandled exception. Proxy-unreachable is detected and reported within ~5 seconds.

Fixtures

The script loads two hand-crafted, fully synthetic JSON fixtures:

  • scripts/fixtures/anthropic_replay_body.json — shape of a large agent reconnect replay /v1/messages?beta=true POST body.
  • scripts/fixtures/codex_response_create_frame.json — first Codex WS frame with the {"type": "response.create", "response": {...}} envelope.

Override via --ws-frame-fixture / --anthropic-body-fixture if you have captured traffic to replay instead.

Interpretation

  • /livez p99 under threshold means the event loop is not starved during the storm. If it rises with the semaphore unbounded (HEADROOM_ANTHROPIC_PRE_UPSTREAM_CONCURRENCY=10000) and drops back under the default, Unit 4's backpressure is working.
  • Codex WS: opened should equal --ws-clients. response.completed typically stays low when upstream auth isn't configured locally — the goal is handshake + relay wiring, not real upstream traffic.
  • Anthropic HTTP: ok_2xx + non_2xx + timed_out + errors should roughly equal attempted. Sustained non-zero timed_out during the storm is the failure signal the plan targets.

A smoke test at tests/test_scripts/test_repro_codex_replay_smoke.py exercises the script against a mock FastAPI server on every PR.

Install scripts

  • install.sh — POSIX installer.
  • install.ps1 — Windows PowerShell installer.

These are generated by the release pipeline; edit with care.

Windows development bootstrap

bootstrap-windows-dev.ps1 prepares a Windows development checkout. It resolves or creates a repo-local Python virtual environment, checks for Rust, installs Python build/test tooling, installs npm dependencies for the TypeScript SDK and OpenClaw plugin, and runs a small smoke set.

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File scripts/bootstrap-windows-dev.ps1

Use -CheckOnly to print detected tool versions without installing packages. Use -SkipSmoke, -SkipDocs, -SkipNode, or -SkipRust when intentionally debugging one part of the environment.

npm release asset smoke

build_npm_release_assets.mjs locally reproduces the release workflow's npm asset build. It builds the TypeScript SDK tarball, installs that tarball into OpenClaw, rewrites OpenClaw's release dependency to the same version, regenerates dist/package.json, packs OpenClaw, and then runs verify_npm_release_assets.mjs.

node scripts/build_npm_release_assets.mjs <version>

By default, output goes into a timestamped release-assets-local/<version>-* directory. Pass an explicit empty directory when you want a predictable path:

node scripts/build_npm_release_assets.mjs <version> release-assets-local/smoke

Expected tarballs:

  • headroom-ai-<version>.tgz
  • headroom-openclaw-<version>.tgz

The script restores package metadata after it finishes so the source tree keeps the registry-installable development dependency range.

Python release artifact smoke

build_python_release_smoke.py locally reproduces the Python artifact smoke: it builds a wheel with maturin, builds an sdist, verifies the sdist License-File metadata against tarball contents, installs the wheel into a fresh python -m venv environment, and imports the native headroom._core extension from that installed wheel.

python scripts/build_python_release_smoke.py

By default, the wheel uses the faster Cargo ci profile and output goes into a timestamped release-assets-local/python-<version>-* directory. Use --release when you want the slower shipped-wheel profile:

python scripts/build_python_release_smoke.py --release --out release-assets-local/python-release-smoke

Expected artifacts:

  • headroom_ai-<version>-*.whl
  • headroom_ai-<version>.tar.gz

Full local release smoke

release_smoke_all.py is the one-command local release gate. It first runs scripts/verify-versions.py, then runs the npm release asset smoke and the Python wheel/sdist smoke into sibling output directories.

python scripts/release_smoke_all.py

By default, output goes into release-assets-local/all-<version>-*/npm and release-assets-local/all-<version>-*/python. Pass an explicit empty output directory for a predictable evidence path:

python scripts/release_smoke_all.py --out release-assets-local/full-release-smoke

Use --python-release when the Python smoke should build with maturin's slower release profile. Use --skip-npm or --skip-python only when intentionally debugging one side of the artifact pipeline.