fix(sessions): carry an interrupted turn's work into the resume prompt - #1016
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Greptile SummaryThis PR carries unsummarized tool activity from an interrupted session turn into the next resume prompt while continuing to omit tool work already covered by an assistant response.
Confidence Score: 4/5The long-session interruption path should be fixed before merging because a full conversation budget still drops all unsummarized tool work. The new tail allowance is calculated from space remaining after retaining up to 80 conversation events, so sessions that fill that budget receive no interrupted-turn context and continue exhibiting the reported resume failure. Files Needing Attention: internal/sessions/exec_session.go
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| internal/sessions/exec_session.go | Adds interrupted tool-tail selection and ordering, but a full conversation budget suppresses the tail entirely. |
| internal/sessions/exec_prompt_tool_context_test.go | Adds focused tests for interrupted tool work, event ordering, bounded selection, and tool-free sessions, but does not combine a full conversation budget with an interrupted tail. |
| internal/sessions/store_test.go | Updates the prompt-selection contract and adds answered-work coverage; its full-budget fixture does not assert preservation of the trailing tool event. |
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flowchart TD
A[Recorded session events] --> B[Find last assistant message]
B --> C[Select conversation events]
B --> D[Select later tool calls and results]
C --> E[Cap conversation at 80]
E --> F[Compute remaining tail budget]
D --> F
F --> G[Merge and sort by sequence]
G --> H[Render resume prompt]
E -->|80 conversation events| I[Tail budget becomes zero]
I --> H
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Provider
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Provider->>SessionEvents: Record interrupted tool events
ResumedProvider->>SessionEvents: Request prior session context
SessionEvents->>PromptContext: Provide post-assistant events
PromptContext->>PromptContext: Redact and bound tool context
PromptContext->>ResumedProvider: Return ordered sanitized context
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When a session retains 80 conversation events and is then interrupted after recording tool work, maxPromptContextEvents-len(conversation) leaves a zero-event tail budget, causing the resume prompt to omit all unsummarized work and reproduce the original blind-resume behavior.
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In `@internal/sessions/exec_session.go`:
- Line 241: Update the event handling at
internal/sessions/exec_session.go:241-241 to add only safe tool-result metadata,
such as tool identity or paths, to tail instead of retaining raw result bodies.
Update the assertions at internal/sessions/store_test.go:618-620 to verify that
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Good catch, and taken. The tail was carrying whole tool-result events, so up to 500 bytes of raw tool output rode into a later turn's prompt. Nothing redacts on the way in, and the renderer truncates rather than filters, so a length limit was the only thing between a file read and a later prompt. It also bought almost nothing. The tail exists so a resumed turn knows what the interrupted one did, and the CALL already says that: the tool name and its arguments, which is the path for a read. Results are now trimmed to name and status before they reach the prompt. Keeping the status rather than dropping the result entirely, because a bare call reads as work that succeeded, so a failed read would come back as a file the next turn believes it already has. A test pins it directly: a result carrying an AWS-key-shaped string must not appear in the prompt, while both paths and both outcomes still do. Worth recording that the first version of that test was weak. It searched the whole prompt for "error", which the provider error message in the same fixture also contains, so blanking the status out left it green. It is scoped to the |
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In `@internal/sessions/exec_prompt_tool_context_test.go`:
- Around line 182-187: Update the result assertions in the test to match each
tool_result with its corresponding path: verify deploy/prod.env has status ok
and deploy/missing.env has status error. Replace the aggregate joined-content
check while preserving the existing requirement that exactly two result lines
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- Around line 163-165: Strengthen the assertion in the resume-prompt test around
the tool output check so it verifies raw tool content cannot appear in truncated
or partially redacted form. Inspect each tool_result line and require only the
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The #913 fix for interrupted read turns looks sound: post-lastSpoken tool calls carry the path identity the resume prompt needs, result bodies are stripped, answered work stays filtered, and conversation is not evicted by tool noise. I have one follow-up on a narrower privacy edge this PR opens, plus a product note on the 80-event budget.
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[P3] Trim interrupted-tail tool call arguments for mutating tools, without breaking
read_filepath carry
internal/sessions/exec_session.go:239-242,internal/sessions/exec_session.go:275-308,internal/sessions/exec_session.go:333-346What happens. Tail selection copies
EventToolCallpayloads verbatim into the resume prompt.toolResultOutcomestrips resultoutput/contentdown to{name, status}, but calls still pass throughsummarizePayload, which flattens every string field in the payload (including theargumentsJSON) up to 500 bytes. That is the right shape for #913 —read_fileidentity lives in call arguments (path, optionaloffset/limit), and your comment attoolResultOutcomedocuments that choice.Where it bites. This PR newly admits tool calls into resume context (they were never included at merge-base). For read-only tools that is the fix. For mutating tools whose arguments embed payloads, an interrupted turn can still put sensitive material into the provider-facing prompt even though the matching result body is gone. Concrete example verified on head: an interrupted
write_filecall with{"path":"…","content":"AWS_SECRET=…"}renders the secret from arguments whilewrittenfrom the result does not appear.Root cause. Sanitization is asymmetric and result-only.
toolResultOutcomesolves leakage forEventToolResult, but there is no symmetric, tool-aware projector forEventToolCall. A blanket “strip all call arguments” would undo #913; a blanket “keep all call arguments” leaves the mutating-tool edge above.Suggested fix (outcome, not prescription). Add a
toolCallIdentityhelper alongsidetoolResultOutcomethat keeps resume-safe identity per tool, mirroring how you already reason about calls vs results in thetoolResultOutcomecomment block:read_file/read_minified_file/grep/list_directory/glob: keep path-like fields; these are the #913 contract.write_file/edit_file: keep path (and aliases likefile_path); dropcontentand other body fields.apply_patch: keep target file identity if present in structured args; drop patch hunks / freeform patch text.bash/exec_command: keep a minimal non-secret descriptor if one exists; do not replay full command strings with env values or credentials.
Wire it at the same site you call
toolResultOutcomefor results (promptContextEvents, tool-call branch). Add a test in the style ofTestResumePromptCarriesToolOutcomeWithoutOutputthat pins whole tool-call lines for a mutating tool (e.g.write_filewith secretcontentin args must not reach the prompt, whilepathstill does).What not to change. Do not remove tail tool calls entirely, do not apply result-style
{name, status}trimming to calls, and do not shrink the read_file path carry that fixes #913.
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- 80-event budget vs interrupted tail. When the conversation slice already holds 80 events,
tailBudget := min(24, 80-len(conversation))is zero and interrupted tool work is omitted. I do not count this as a PR regression — merge-base never carried tool events at all, andTestFormatExecPromptTruncatesConversationMessagesAfterFilteringNoiseencodes the drop. It may nonetheless leave #913 partially open for very long sessions (Greptile’s point). If the current tradeoff inside the #460 cap is acceptable, a one-line comment on thetailBudgetline explaining that tail slots only exist when conversation uses fewer than 80 events would make the limit obvious to the next reader. If not acceptable, the product fix is to reserve a minimum tail budget (likely by trimming conversation further), not to expand scope in this PR without an explicit decision.
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Fixed at 170a05b, green on all three platforms, and the budget question answered below. Calls now get the same treatment as results. You had the shape exactly:
It is an allow-list keyed by argument name rather than a deny-list keyed by tool, for two reasons. A body field this file has never seen is dropped rather than replayed, so a new tool with a new payload field shows up as a missing path in a resume prompt, which is visible, instead of a new leak, which is not. And a tool this file has never heard of, an MCP tool with a The test is in the style of Falsified three ways, each failing on the secrets: calls admitted verbatim again, the allow-list disabled, and unreadable arguments left in place. The last one turned out stronger than I designed it, since The 80-event budget: accepted and documented, not changed. A session whose conversation already fills the cap carries no interrupted tool work, which is what every session did before tool events were admitted, and what the #460 cap is there to hold. The failure mode is a re-read in a very long session, which is the pre-PR behaviour for all sessions rather than a regression from this one. Reserving a minimum tail by trimming conversation further is a product change with its own tradeoff, and I would rather make that one deliberately in its own change than fold it into this one. There is now a comment on the |
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The map-order rendering I mentioned in the earlier thread is now #1020. It predates this PR, so it stays separate. |
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I found one privacy follow-up in the tool-call identity projection.
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mainatf30f550e. GitHub reports no conflicts, there is no overlapping session-file or release-metadata drift, and current-head checks are green. This does not establish a rebase blocker.
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[P3] Redact credentials inside retained URL values
internal/sessions/exec_session.go:330-332An interrupted
web_fetchwith{"url":"https://api.example/data?access_token=secret-value"}puts that credential unchanged into the next resume or fork prompt.urlpasses the allowlist, its value is copied verbatim, and the renderer only flattens and truncates it. This is a valid first-party input:web_fetchaccepts query credentials and redacts its own returned URL, but the recorded call arguments bypass that protection. At both merge-base and currentmain, this call is excluded from ordinary conversation context; admitting it here creates the later-turn replay.Please scrub credentials inside retained values while preserving the useful non-secret URL identity. Add a regression for a credential-bearing URL whose host/path survives but whose token does not.
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Fixed in 2844bad, and rebased onto You are right that the allow-list only decides which keys survive, not whether their values are safe, and Retained string values now go through The regression asserts both directions, because a scrub that eats the identity would be its own bug:
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263-266: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueRemove the unreachable guard.
The root module declares Go 1.26.6, so the
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- Around line 342-345: Update toolCallIdentity to rebuild the payload using only
the allowed id, name, and transformed arguments fields, rather than preserving
arbitrary sibling keys; ensure this allow-list reconstruction also occurs when
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I have two follow-ups in the tool-call projection: one privacy defect and one lower-risk gap in retained work identity. Both concern the boundary this PR adds between recorded tool events and the next provider-facing prompt.
I also owe you consolidated feedback. These related projection edges should have been examined together in the earlier review. I am spelling out the root causes, bounded fixes, and regression expectations below so the next change can address the contract as a whole instead of another individual fixture.
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[P2] Prevent nested argument values from bypassing the projection
internal/sessions/exec_session.go:321-324
Failure path. toolCallIdentity decodes arguments into map[string]any, admits an argument by its outer key, and passes the value to redactedIdentityValue. That helper scrubs strings but returns every other type unchanged. JSON objects and arrays therefore receive the same treatment as numeric offsets and limits.
For example, this argument object retains both nested fields:
{"query":{"api_key":"secret-value","content":"private body"}}An array has the same problem:
{"url":["https://api.example/data?access_token=secret-value"]}The nested values are marshaled back into the arguments string and rendered in the next resume/fork prompt. The allowed outer key does not prevent a nested credential or body field from passing through it.
Reachability and evidence. MCP schemas support object and array properties (internal/mcp/schema.go:93-120), and registryTool.Run forwards argument maps (internal/mcp/registry.go:316-317). These examples illustrate supported argument shapes; they do not depend on a particular installed MCP server.
There is also a first-party failure path: the agent emits OnToolCall before execution/argument rejection, and the session recorder stores the original arguments. A malformed read_file call with path set to an object can therefore be recorded even though the tool rejects it. A persisted-event reproduction with a nested api_key and content, followed by reopening the store and preparing both resume and fork, carries those values into both prompts. A later provider error leaves that call in the selected tail.
Impact and attribution. This creates a subsequent-prompt exposure. At merge-base f30f550e and the captured target at that same commit, calls alongside ordinary conversation events are excluded from this prompt. Head 692aacc8 newly admits them. The issue is the new replay of recorded private data; it is not a claim that this PR introduced raw argument storage or that a real credential breach has been observed.
Root cause and requested outcome. The projection validates field names but does not constrain the shapes of the values it retains. “Non-string” includes containers with arbitrary content, not just safe numeric windows.
Please make the retained-value policy explicit and prevent objects/arrays from forwarding arbitrary payloads beneath an allowed key. Dropping unsupported composite values is a sufficient, bounded approach; there is no requirement to build a recursive projection framework. If you choose to retain a structured identity, its contents need an explicit safe projection. Applying credential regexes to a whole serialized object alone would still preserve private body text that has no credential-shaped pattern.
Keep ordinary scalar identities and numeric read windows working, keep call identity when arguments are rejected, and leave persisted events and tool execution semantics unchanged.
Regression expectations. Cover an object containing both a credential and ordinary private body text, plus an array containing a credential-bearing URL. Assert that neither private body text nor credential fragments reach the prompt, while permitted scalar paths, URLs, and numeric windows survive. Include a persisted/reloaded resume or fork case so the test proves the projection is applied after restoring recorded events, including rejected tool calls.
[P3] Preserve supported search identities and read windows
internal/sessions/exec_session.go:303-307
Failure path. The new allowlist preserves canonical forms but omits equivalent supported forms and advertised byte windows:
| Tool | Accepted input omitted by the projection | Information lost on resume |
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glob |
match |
The search pattern |
grep |
search |
The search expression |
read_file |
start_line, end_line, max_lines |
The requested line window |
read_file |
byte_offset, byte_limit |
The requested byte window |
The search aliases are accepted in internal/tools/glob.go:71 and internal/tools/grep.go:86. The line-window alternatives are handled in internal/tools/read_file.go:73-107; byte windows are declared in its schema and handled at lines 110-123.
For example, a successful glob({"match":"src/**/*.go"}) followed by interruption resumes with the call's name/id and outcome but no pattern. A read_file call with {"path":"large.go","byte_offset":4096,"byte_limit":512} retains only the path. Persisting and reopening those events reproduces both omissions. Since result bodies are excluded, they cannot supply the missing identity or range.
Impact and attribution. The resumed turn cannot tell what the search targeted or which read window was requested. That undermines the work-identity benefit for supported input forms. This is a limited completeness defect in the claimed fix, not a regression from the pre-PR behavior, which carried none of this tool work. P3 reflects that distinction; it is not evidence of lost persisted data or broken tool execution.
Root cause and requested outcome. The projection's vocabulary is maintained separately from the tools' actual argument contracts. Covering a few canonical examples leaves existing aliases and alternate read modes behind.
Please preserve these identities and windows for the relevant tools, using their existing argument semantics as the reference. The mechanism can remain local to this projection. A small normalization or per-tool exception is enough; no registry redesign is requested.
Take care with search: edit_file also accepts it as an alias for old_string (internal/tools/edit_file.go:50). Globally adding search to the allowlist would replay old file contents and undo the privacy protection. Its meaning must be distinguished for the relevant tool. Keep mutating-tool bodies excluded.
Regression expectations. Exercise the omitted search aliases and both alternate line and byte windows. Assert that each call retains its own useful identity/range. Pair the grep.search positive case with an edit_file.search negative case containing ordinary private text, so preserving search identity cannot silently become preserving edit payloads. Keep the existing canonical path/window tests as positive controls.
Address the projection contract together
The recurring issue is that this boundary has several independent dimensions: event selection, top-level field selection, argument meaning, argument value shape, and the final rendered prompt. Earlier changes addressed raw results, mutating call bodies, scalar credential-bearing values, and unexpected top-level fields. Those protections can all work while nested values or supported alternate argument forms remain uncovered.
That history does not establish a need for a larger redesign. It does suggest finishing this small boundary with one explicit policy and a compact set of tests across its dimensions:
- Identify the safe identity fields and supported variants for the existing read/search tools in scope, using their parsers and schemas rather than only the current fixtures.
- For each retained field, decide which value shapes are meaningful. An allowed key must not implicitly authorize arbitrary nested data.
- Where the same argument name has different meanings, preserve the safe tool-specific meaning and continue excluding body content.
- Test both directions: useful identity survives, and private payload does not. Include ordinary private text as well as recognizable credentials; successful redaction of one token does not prove body exclusion.
- Check the rendered prompt after persistence/reload, and ensure projection does not modify the stored events. Existing event ordering, result outcomes, and conversation-retention tests should continue passing.
These are completion criteria for the two findings above, not additional findings or a request to expand this PR. Please keep the fixes within the existing selection and identity-projection behavior. They do not require full tool-output/history retention, broader tool execution changes, a general MCP-schema interpreter, or changes to the prompt budget.
The practical target is that supported read/search calls retain their useful identities and requested windows, while no retained key becomes a route for arbitrary private payloads. Addressing those two properties together should reduce another round of example-by-example repairs. It cannot guarantee that no future defect will ever be found, and the earlier fragmented feedback is also a review failure I need to own.
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A turn that read six files and then died on a provider error left this behind for the next turn: - #1 message: add retries to the http client - #6 error: provider error: upstream timeout Nothing named the files, so the next turn re-read them from scratch (#913). The work was never lost from the session: tool calls and results are recorded as they happen, and the error path carries them out with everything else. promptContextEvents then dropped both types on the way into the prompt, so the record existed and nothing read it. Filtering them was deliberate (#460) and is right for work an answer already describes: forty read_file results add length and no information next to the assistant message explaining them. It is wrong only for work with no answer after it, and that is exactly what an interruption leaves. A turn that ends normally was survivable for that reason, which is why this went unnoticed: the answer was doing the remembering. So the events after the last assistant message come along and the rest stays filtered. The tail gets its own allowance rather than sharing the conversation budget, so a tool-heavy interrupted turn still cannot push an earlier message out of the context. That is the property #460 added the filter for and it is asserted directly. This changes a tested contract. TestFormatExecPromptKeepsConversationMessagesWhenNoisyEventsFollow asserted that tool results are omitted, and its fixture is an interrupted turn: 43 results after an assistant answer with nothing speaking for them. That is the #913 shape, so no rule satisfies both and the contract had to move. The test keeps the guarantee it was written for, that conversation survives a noisy turn, and a counterpart now pins the other half: work an answer already covers is still filtered. Not fixed here, and worth saying plainly: this carries what was DONE, not what was READ. Zero has no conversation-history parameter at all, agent.Run seeds from the system prompt and the user prompt every time, so file contents cannot survive a turn boundary today. The next turn learns it already read a path and can decide, rather than starting blind.
The tail was carrying whole tool-result events, so up to 500 bytes of raw tool output rode into a later turn prompt. Nothing redacts on the way in, and the prompt renderer truncates rather than filters, so the only thing standing between a file read and a later prompt was a length limit. It bought almost nothing. The tail exists so a resumed turn knows what the interrupted one did, and the CALL already says that: the tool name and its arguments, which is the path for a read. The result body is the one part of the pair that can carry file contents. The status is kept rather than dropping the result entirely. A bare call reads as work that succeeded, so a failed read would come back as a file the next turn believes it already has. Raised by CodeRabbit on the PR, and right.
The status check searched the whole prompt for "error", which the provider error message in the same fixture also contains. Blanking the status out left the test passing, so it was asserting the presence of an unrelated line. Scoped to the tool_result lines, it fails on that mutation naming the outcome it lost.
…e string Two assertions here were weaker than what they claimed. Searching the prompt for the fixture's whole secret only rejects that exact string, so a change that carried a truncated or partly redacted prefix of the output into the prompt would have passed. And asking whether "ok" and "error" each appear somewhere among the result lines passes just as well with the two statuses swapped, or both hung off the wrong call. Both tool calls and both results are now pinned outright, which says what the trim actually promises: nothing but the tool name and the outcome survives a result, and the line order pairs each outcome with its own call. Compared as a set of fields per line rather than as a string, because the renderer walks the payload map and Go randomizes that order, so the same events come out in a different field order on every run. Reported by CodeRabbit on this PR.
…sume context toolResultOutcome strips a result down to name and status, and calls were left verbatim, so an interrupted write_file put its content into the next turn's prompt while the matching result body did not. Same secret, one door left open. Admitting calls is the #913 fix and has to stay: a resumed turn knowing which file was read is the whole point. What had to change is the symmetry. toolCallIdentity is the call-side half of toolResultOutcome. It decodes the arguments, keeps the fields that say what a call was about, and drops the ones that carry what it was about to write, run or search for. Paths, directories, urls, names, patterns and a read window survive; write_file's content, edit_file's old and new strings, apply_patch's hunks and a shell command line do not. An allow-list rather than a deny-list, so an argument this file has never seen is dropped rather than replayed. A new tool with a new body field then shows up as a missing path in a resume prompt, which is visible, instead of a new leak, which is not. Keyed by argument name rather than tool name, so an MCP tool whose argument is a url keeps it without being enumerated. Arguments that do not decode as an object are removed outright: text that could not be read is text that cannot be checked. The tail budget gets a comment rather than a change. Tail slots exist only when the conversation uses fewer than the 80-event cap, so a session already at the cap carries no interrupted tool work, which is what every session did before tool events were admitted and what the #460 cap is there to hold. Reserving a minimum tail by trimming conversation further is a product decision, and it is not this one. Reported by jatmn.
An allow-listed key is not a safe value. web_fetch accepts a credential in the query string and redacts the URL it reports back, so an interrupted fetch had its token dropped from the result and kept verbatim in the call, and this projection then carried it into the next resume or fork prompt. Retained string values now go through the same redaction web_fetch uses on its own returned URL: host, path and ordinary query survive, the token does not, and non-string values are untouched.
…hing one toolResultOutcome builds its output from the fields it keeps, so a field it has never heard of cannot reach a prompt through it. The call side edited arguments in place and returned every sibling key, and returned the payload untouched when there were no arguments at all, so a producer recording one more top-level field would put it into the next turn. Both halves now name what survives and drop the rest.
…nd scope the ambiguous aliases
Two halves of the same gap: the projection decided which KEYS survive and
said nothing about the values under them or about which tool gave them
meaning.
Values. Strings were scrubbed and everything else passed through, which
reads as "a number is nothing to scrub" and is true of a number and not of
an object. MCP schemas allow object and array properties, so
{"query":{"api_key":"...","content":"private body"}} arrived under a
permitted key and carried a whole payload into the next prompt. Redacting a
serialized object would not have helped, since ordinary private text has no
credential shape to match. The retained shapes are named now: a scrubbed
string, and the scalars a read window is made of. A container is dropped and
the call keeps its name and id, so a resumed turn still knows which tool ran.
Meaning. grep accepts "search" for its pattern and edit_file accepts the
same word for the text being replaced, so admitting it globally would have
replayed file contents. It is scoped to grep, and the rule is kept as a
test: an argument name any mutating tool accepts for body content belongs in
the per-tool table or nowhere. The unambiguous supported forms are added to
the shared table: glob's match, and read_file's start_line, end_line,
max_lines, byte_offset and byte_limit.
Driven through the store on both resume and fork, including a call the tool
would have rejected, since the agent records OnToolCall before execution. The
persisted events are asserted unchanged: this is a view for the prompt, not
an edit to the record.
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Both taken, at 789bd38, rebased onto current You are right that these are one gap rather than two findings: the projection decided which KEYS survive and said nothing about the values under them or about which tool gave them meaning. Taking them together is what made the second one findable. Value shapes. Scrubbing strings and returning everything else read as "a number is nothing to scrub", which is true of a number and not of an object. Argument meaning. Verified against the parsers rather than the review, since the trap only matters if it is real:
On the coverage. You asked for a persisted and reloaded case and you were right to: every test I had handed Falsifications: letting containers through fails the nested test on both the body text and the token; putting On the consolidated framing, no complaint from me. Each round found a real thing, and the reason there were rounds is that I kept fixing the example in front of me instead of asking what the boundary was for. The per-tool rule and the shape rule are both written down in the code now, which is the part that should stop the next one. |
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- Around line 333-337: Update the assertions in the test around the kept window
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…alone strings.Contains(out, "40") finds it inside "4096", so the start_line assertion passed whether or not start_line survived the projection, which is the opposite of what it claimed. The rendered arguments carry the pairs, so the assertions name them.
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Fixes #913.
What was happening
A turn that read two files and then died on a provider error handed the next turn this and nothing else:
Neither file is named, so the next turn re-reads from scratch.
The work was never lost from the session. Tool calls and results are recorded as they happen, and the error path carries them out with everything else.
promptContextEventsthen dropped both types on the way into the prompt, so the record existed and nothing read it.I had guessed a different mechanism when I first looked at this in August, on the PR-facing side (
result.Messagesnot reaching the model). That was wrong:Messagesis a field ofResult, notOptions, andagent.Runseeds from the system prompt and the user prompt every time. Cross-turn context in Zero is a rendered list of session events, not a message list, so the filter is the whole story.The change
Only the events after the last assistant message are carried; everything the assistant already spoke for stays filtered.
Filtering tool events was deliberate (#460) and is right for work an answer describes: forty
read_fileresults add length and no information next to the message explaining them. It is wrong only for work with no answer after it, which is exactly what an interruption leaves behind. That is also why this went unnoticed for so long, since a turn that ends normally has its answer doing the remembering.The tail gets its own allowance rather than sharing the conversation budget, so a tool-heavy interrupted turn still cannot push an earlier message out of the context. That is the property #460 added the filter for, and there is now a test asserting it directly rather than relying on tool events being absent.
This changes a tested contract
TestFormatExecPromptKeepsConversationMessagesWhenNoisyEventsFollowasserted that tool results are omitted. Its fixture is an interrupted turn: 43 results after an assistant answer with nothing speaking for them. That is the #913 shape, so no rule satisfies both and the contract had to move.The test keeps the guarantee it was written for, that conversation survives a noisy turn, and
TestFormatExecPromptOmitsToolWorkAnAnswerAlreadyCoversnow pins the other half. Flagging it rather than quietly rewriting a canary.What this does not fix
It carries what was DONE, not what was READ. Zero has no conversation-history parameter, so file contents cannot survive a turn boundary today. The next turn learns it already read a path and can decide, instead of starting blind. Closing the rest means giving
agent.Optionsreal prior-message support, which is a much larger change and belongs in its own issue if we want it.Verified
Four mutations, each killing only its own test: never collecting the tail brings the symptom straight back and neither file is named; removing the tail allowance carries 43 tool events and overruns the 80-event budget; ignoring the last-assistant boundary repeats summarized work verbatim; merging without the re-sort renders the history out of order.
My first three attempts at those mutations failed to compile on unused variables and proved nothing, which is its own reminder to read the failing line rather than the word FAIL.
internal/sessionsgreen.internal/cliandinternal/tuieach have one failure that reproduces identically onorigin/mainand is unrelated.Summary by CodeRabbit