headroom/docs
Andrei Boldyrev f6398a6476
fix(proxy): port session-sticky beta headers to the Rust proxy (#2381)
## Description

The Python proxy protects prompt caches with `SessionBetaTracker`
(PR-A6, `headroom/proxy/helpers.py`): interactive clients (Claude Code,
Codex CLI) may drop an `anthropic-beta` / `openai-beta` token between
turn N and turn N+1 of the same conversation, and since beta headers are
part of the bytes that determine the upstream prefix-cache key, the drop
rotates the key and the provider re-writes the whole prefix at the
customer's cost. The tracker unions the client's tokens with everything
previously seen for that `(provider, session)` and forwards the union —
a documented operator contract (`docs/configuration.mdx`, "Session Beta
Header Tracking").

The Rust proxy has no equivalent, and Phase H (#2258) deletes the
tracker together with `helpers.py` and its test file
(`tests/test_anthropic_beta_session_sticky.py`). None of the Phase A–G
plans port it (Phase F consumes beta headers for auth-mode
classification only), so the protection would silently not survive the
migration — and the Phase-H gate "Cache-hit-rate parity with direct
upstream confirmed" can't catch the loss, because re-injection makes
proxied traffic *beat* direct upstream on cache hits; when the mechanism
disappears, proxied traffic degrades *to* direct-upstream levels, which
that comparison reads as parity.

This PR ports the tracker semantics into the Rust proxy so the
protection lives in the codebase Phase H keeps.

Closes #2380

## Type of Change

- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
- [x] 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)

(New Rust functionality, but a parity port of already-shipped,
already-documented Python behavior — the PR title uses `fix:` per
`REALIGNMENT/INDEX.md`: "Commit prefix: `fix:` for Rust-migration phase
commits".)

## Changes Made

- **`cache_stabilization/beta_sticky.rs`** — the tracker: bounded LRU
(1000 sessions, same sizing rationale and `# Panics` contract as the
drift detector's capacity) keyed by `(provider, session)`, storing the
per-session ordered token list. Union preserves first-seen order; dedup
is case-insensitive with first-seen casing winning; lookups touch
recency; overflow evicts the oldest — mirroring the Python tracker. The
header-plumbing lives in the module too (`apply_sticky_betas`), so the
merge is unit-testable without booting a proxy.
- **`proxy.rs` wiring** — on the intercepted POST routes
(`/v1/messages`, `/v1/chat/completions`, `/v1/responses`), right after
the drift-detector observation, reusing the drift detector's
`derive_session_key` output so both cache-stability subsystems agree on
conversation identity.
- **`config.rs`** — `--beta-header-sticky` /
`HEADROOM_PROXY_BETA_HEADER_STICKY` (`enabled` default; `disabled`
forwards the client value verbatim and keeps no state), mirroring the
`StripInternalHeaders` flag pattern and the existing `HEADROOM_*` →
`HEADROOM_PROXY_*` Python→Rust env pairing. Since the merge runs inside
the compression interceptor, startup logs a warning when the flag is
`enabled` while `--compression` is off, and both the CLI doc and the
docs row state the dependency.
- **`tests/integration_beta_header_sticky.rs`** — 9 end-to-end tests
against a wiremock upstream asserting the headers/bytes the upstream
actually receives; 21 unit tests port the behavioral contract from
`tests/test_anthropic_beta_session_sticky.py` and cover the header-map
plumbing.
- **`docs/content/docs/configuration.mdx`** — one row for
`HEADROOM_PROXY_BETA_HEADER_STICKY` next to the existing Python/Rust
flag pairs.

## Testing

- [x] Unit tests pass (`cargo test -p headroom-proxy`; Python side via
`make ci-precheck-python` — `pytest` subset, 174 passed)
- [x] Linting passes (`cargo clippy --all-targets` — 0 warnings; `cargo
fmt --check` clean; Rust-only change, so `ruff`/`mypy` are covered by
the untouched-Python `ci-precheck-python` build)
- [ ] Type checking passes (`mypy headroom`) — N/A, no Python files
touched
- [x] New tests added for new functionality
- [x] Manual testing performed (RED/GREEN before-and-after runs below)

### Test Output

```text
$ cargo test -p headroom-proxy --lib beta_sticky
test result: ok. 21 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 248 filtered out; finished in 0.03s

$ cargo test -p headroom-proxy --test integration_beta_header_sticky
test result: ok. 9 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.07s

$ cargo test -p headroom-proxy            # full crate: 37 suites, all ok
$ cargo clippy -p headroom-proxy --all-targets   # 0 warnings
$ make ci-precheck-rust ci-precheck-python ci-precheck-commitlint   # green
```

## Real Behavior Proof

- Environment: macOS arm64 (Darwin 24.6), `rustc 1.95.0`, real Rust
proxy booted on an ephemeral port in front of a wiremock upstream
(`tests/common::start_proxy_with`, `compression = true`).
- Exact command / steps: two-turn conversation through the proxy — turn
1 `POST /v1/messages` with `anthropic-beta:
context-management-2025-06-27,interleaved-thinking-2025-05-14`; turn 2,
same conversation, client drops the second token. The wiremock responder
captures the headers the upstream actually receives (`cargo test -p
headroom-proxy --test integration_beta_header_sticky`).
- Observed result: **before** the port (test written first, run against
the unmodified proxy) the upstream sees the shrunken token set and the
prefix-cache key rotates —

  ```text
assertion `left == right` failed: turn 2 must re-inject the dropped
token so the upstream
  prefix-cache key stays byte-stable
    left: Some("context-management-2025-06-27")
right:
Some("context-management-2025-06-27,interleaved-thinking-2025-05-14")
  ```

**After** the port the same scenario passes: the upstream receives the
full union on turn 2, the internal `x-headroom-session-id` never crosses
the upstream boundary, and the forwarded body is SHA-256-identical to
what the client sent (asserted by
`body_bytes_stay_byte_equal_while_header_is_rewritten`).
- Not tested: live traffic against a real provider upstream (wiremock
only); the WebSocket path and Bedrock/Vertex routes (out of scope — see
Additional Notes).

## 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)

## Screenshots (if applicable)

N/A (proxy behavior; see Real Behavior Proof).

## Additional Notes

Design decisions, and where I'd like reviewer judgment:

1. **Applies to all auth modes, like the Python handler.** The Phase-E
module doctrine gates *body*-mutating normalizers on PAYG; this
mechanism mutates headers only, and the Python source of truth applies
it unconditionally — an auth-mode gate here would create a behavioral
delta exactly where the PR's purpose is behavior preservation. It's also
stealth-consistent by construction: the union only ever contains tokens
this client itself sent (Headroom-added tokens are never recorded),
`auth_mode.rs`'s own docs name "beta-header drift voids them" as the
OAuth cache hazard (stickiness is the anti-drift), and F2's
`CompressionPolicy` has no beta field — no gate is structurally
expected. I've extended the `cache_stabilization/mod.rs` taxonomy with a
third category ("re-echo client-sent state") to keep the module doctrine
honest. Flagging explicitly since invariant #10 ("no beta drift") is
subscription-critical: if you read it as "forward beta verbatim on
Subscription", say so and I'll add the gate.
2. **One deliberate divergence from Python: sessions are keyed per
conversation, not per `(model, system)` bucket.** The Python tracker
keys on the store session id — explicit header, else a hash of model +
leading system prompt — so a Claude Code session and every one of its
subagents share one token union and cross-inherit tokens; two *different
users* behind an org proxy with the same (model, system) do too. This
port keys on the drift detector's conversation-aware key (#2301), so
each conversation keeps its own union (pinned by
`separate_conversations_do_not_leak_tokens`). That's the same conflation
defect #2085/#2193/#2301 chased out of the other session-sticky
subsystems, and it makes "the union only contains tokens this client
sent" actually true — under the Python fallback key it isn't (cross-user
union). Cost: Python's accidental cross-conversation repair is gone, and
an OAuth access-token refresh mid-conversation re-keys the session (one
turn forwards verbatim, then re-learns — fails safe).
3. **Repeated header lines are joined per RFC 9110 list semantics before
recording.** A client sending two `anthropic-beta` lines gets both
recorded; a later rewrite collapses to one line carrying the full set.
(Reading only the first line — or Python's actual behavior, which keeps
only the *last* line via its `dict(headers)` collapse — can shrink the
upstream token set mid-conversation when a rewrite fires.)
4. **Scope: the three intercepted HTTP routes.** With the compression
interceptor off the proxy is a strict byte-pipe (Phase-A invariant) — no
header mutation, hence the startup warning. WebSocket keeps its behavior
(Python's WS site keys on a per-connection UUID, so cross-turn
accumulation is a near-no-op there; the Rust WS tunnel doesn't touch
beta headers). Bedrock/Vertex are skipped by the same match that skips
the drift detector (betas travel in the body as `anthropic_beta` on
Bedrock).
5. **Log discipline**: `event=beta_header_merge` carries token *counts*
only (beta tokens can carry experiment IDs; same privacy contract as
Python's `log_beta_header_merge`, plus the drift detector's hashed
session-key prefix instead of Python's raw session id). One deviation
from Python's unconditional info: the no-op case logs at debug, matching
the drift detector's silent-on-stable precedent — an info-level
`beta_header_merge` always marks an actual cache-affecting rewrite.
6. **Capacity is a const (1000), not a flag** — following the
drift-detector precedent rather than Python's
`HEADROOM_BETA_TRACKER_MAX_SESSIONS` env var. Happy to make it
configurable if you'd rather keep that operator knob.
7. **Fail-open everywhere**: non-ASCII client values are forwarded
verbatim with nothing recorded; a poisoned tracker lock forwards the
client value verbatim; an unencodable union (unreachable — every token
came from a parsed header value) logs and forwards verbatim. The
protection never delays or drops a request.
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components docs: sync Vercel docs with current code and add in-depth proxy config (#2475) 2026-07-21 16:26:56 -07:00
content/docs fix(proxy): port session-sticky beta headers to the Rust proxy (#2381) 2026-08-12 00:04:18 -05:00
lib docs: sync Vercel docs with current code and add in-depth proxy config (#2475) 2026-07-21 16:26:56 -07:00
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screenshots Merge pull request #147 from JerrettDavis/feat/anthropic-usage-insights 2026-04-12 10:54:22 -07:00
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observability.md fix: remove rtk and lean-ctx CLI context tools (#2677) 2026-07-30 22:59:41 -07:00
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platform-feature-matrix.json fix: harden persistent install startup (#1851) 2026-07-10 00:40:34 -04:00
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