Baseline diff vs clean upstream/main (182 pre-existing environmental
failures on both sides) showed exactly 6 PR-caused failures, all the same
mechanism: tests construct ContextCompressor under a
get_model_context_length mock and read threshold_percent/threshold_tokens
after the with block, or build via object.__new__ and assign
context_length AFTER the derived budgets (the setter now resets the
lazily-cached budgets).
- test_compression_small_ctx_threshold_floor: resolve inside _make()
- test_cjk_token_estimation: resolve inside mock
- test_per_model_compression_threshold: resolve inside mock (2 tests)
- test_pre_compress_memory_context: assign context_length before
threshold/tail/summary budgets; add summary_target_ratio
Sessions on sub-512K-context models were spending most of their wall-clock
re-summarizing: the 50% trigger left too little post-compaction headroom
(the incompressible floor — system prompt, tool schemas, protected tail,
rolling summary — ate most of the reclaimed space), so compaction re-fired
every 1-2 turns. Three compounding defects fixed:
- Threshold floor: models with context windows below 512K now trigger at
>=75% of the window (raise-only — a higher configured value or per-model
autoraise like Codex gpt-5.5's 85% always wins). Re-derived on
update_model() in both directions.
- No max_tokens on the summary call: the summary budget is prompt guidance
only ("Target ~N tokens"). The wire cap truncated summaries mid-section
on the Anthropic Messages / NVIDIA NIM paths (thinking models burn the
cap on reasoning first), yielding truncated or thinking-only summaries
and compaction loops. Summary token ceiling lowered 12K -> 10K to keep
the guidance within the intended 1K-10K envelope.
- Reasoning traces excluded end-to-end: inline <think>/<reasoning> blocks
are now stripped from assistant content before serialization to the
summarizer, and from the summarizer's own output before the summary is
stored (previously a thinking summarizer model's trace was persisted in
_previous_summary and re-fed into every iterative update, compounding
bloat). Native reasoning fields were already excluded.
Verified E2E with real imports against a temp HERMES_HOME: threshold table
across 64K-1M windows, override interactions (user 0.85 wins, spark 0.70
raised, gpt-5.5 0.85 kept), full compress() round-trip with a thinking
summarizer, and wire-kwargs capture proving no max_tokens is sent.