Verbatim context compaction for Claude Code, scored by a local Laya model.

Verbatim context compaction for Claude Code, scored by a local Laya model. No API key, nothing leaves the machine.
Claude Code's built-in compaction asks an LLM to summarise old turns, which is lossy — a file path, an exact error, a constraint can vanish. This keeps user and assistant text byte-for-byte and only drops or truncates tool calls that a decision model says are no longer needed.
fast-jev-compaction does the hard part, but sends conversation state to a hosted endpoint. Tool results are omitted, but tool inputs (bash commands, file paths, grep patterns) and message text go verbatim — which is a poor fit for work under NDA.
fast-jev-compaction-laya solved that with a local Laya server, but targets opencode, not Claude Code.
This is the missing combination: upstream's Claude Code plugin and scoring logic, pointed at that local server.
One config value. Upstream's hook drops baseUrl on the floor when building the request; here it is threaded through from userConfig, and the API key becomes optional when baseUrl is set. Everything else — the two-noul calibrated scoring, keepThreshold, the state fitting — is upstream's, imported from the published package rather than vendored.
The local server is Jev-wire-compatible by design: POST /ask with {state, questions} returning {"answers": {...}} where each noul answer carries P(true), which is exactly what parseJevResponse expects.
pip install laya-mlx # Apple Silicon; ~650 MB checkpoint on first run
python server.py # http://127.0.0.1:8787 — keep it running
Run it as a launchd service instead of a terminal you have to remember:
./launchd/install.sh # renders the plist, bootstraps the agent
It starts at login, respawns if it dies, and logs to ~/.laya/logs/. Remove with launchctl bootout gui/$UID/com.laya.decisions.
Then install the plugin and leave baseUrl at its default (http://127.0.0.1:8787/ask). Set apiKey only if you deliberately want the hosted endpoint instead.
Measured against a realistic 100-tool-call transcript (200 noul questions) on an Apple M5, convaiinnovations/laya multilingual. The transport is fine; the decisions are not.
Laya does not discriminate on this task. Half the tool calls were junk (LS /tmp), half were relevant (Read src/auth*.ts) for a stated goal of fixing auth tests. It scored them the same, and the junk marginally higher:
| calls | mean keepResult | sd |
|---|---|---|
junk LS /tmp (n=50) | 0.9282 | 0.0128 |
relevant Read src/auth*.ts (n=47) | 0.9157 | 0.0074 |
Separation -0.0125, inside the noise. Every one of 200 decisions landed in 0.93-0.97. At keepThreshold 0.6 or 0.8 nothing is dropped and reduction is 0%; at 0.95 it drops 56 calls and reports 55% reduction, but that is slicing through a 4-point band of noise, so it discards context at random. That is worse than no compaction: silent, arbitrary loss.
Shrinking the state does not help — it saturates instead. With a 40-message state every answer comes back noul: 1.0, confidence: 1.0.
Context window mismatch, which is real but not the cure. The model's window is 8192 tokens (max_position_embeddings, and the tokenizer agrees) while the plugin defaults to maxStateTokens: 25000 — 3x over, so the state is truncated. Fitting under the window is impossible for a long transcript anyway: the library's own fitting bottoms out at ~5775 tokens, leaving ~2400 for questions, and splitting to fit produces concurrent requests that the server serialises behind one lock.
Latency. ~8.3 s per compaction of 200 questions, warm. Earlier notes in this repo claimed 15 ms; that was 3 questions against a 2-message state and did not predict anything. The BrokenPipeErrors in ~/.laya/logs/laya.err.log are Claude Code abandoning the dispatch and hanging up mid-response.
Conclusion. The idea is sound and the plumbing works — a local decision model scoring a Jev-shaped request, no data leaving the machine. This particular model cannot make the judgement. Reviving this needs a decision model that discriminates on relevance at transcript scale, not a threshold.
hooks/laya-compaction.ts 325 lines1import type {
2 On,
3 PluginOptions,
4 Register,
5 SessionMessage,
6 ToolResultSummary,
7 ToolUseSummary,
8 TurnCompleteInput,
9} from 'claude-code';
10
11import { compact, reductionRatio, resolveOptions } from '../src/compact.js';
12import { buildJevRequest, DEFAULT_MODEL, parseJevResponse } from '../src/request.js';
13import type {
14 CompactOptions,
15 CompactResult,
16 JevAsker,
17 Message,
18 ToolResult,
19 ToolUse,
20} from '../src/types.js';
21
22const HOOK_DEFAULTS = {
23 compactAtPercent: 60,
24 minReductionRatio: 0.25,
25 model: DEFAULT_MODEL,
26};
27
28export type HookFetchInit = {
29 method?: string;
30 headers?: Record<string, string>;
31 body?: string;
32};
33
34export type HookFetchResponse = {
35 status: number;
36 ok: boolean;
37 text: string;
38};
39
40/** The shape of `$.http.fetch`, so the hook can be driven without an engine. */
41export type HookFetch = (url: string, init?: HookFetchInit) => Promise<HookFetchResponse>;
42
43export type HookConfig = CompactOptions & {
44 apiKey?: string;
45 baseUrl?: string;
46 compactAtPercent: number;
47 minReductionRatio: number;
48 model: string;
49};
50
51function optionNumber(options: PluginOptions, key: string, fallback: number): number {
52 const value = options[key];
53 return typeof value === 'number' && Number.isFinite(value) ? value : fallback;
54}
55
56function optionString(options: PluginOptions, key: string): string | undefined {
57 const value = options[key];
58 return typeof value === 'string' && value.length > 0 ? value : undefined;
59}
60
61/** Reads the plugin's `userConfig` values; anything missing takes the defaults. */
62export function resolveHookConfig(options: PluginOptions): HookConfig {
63 const numbers: Partial<Omit<CompactOptions, 'goal'>> = {};
64 for (const key of [
65 'keepThreshold',
66 'preserveRecentMessages',
67 'maxStateTokens',
68 'maxRequestTokens',
69 'truncateHeadChars',
70 ] as const) {
71 const value = options[key];
72 if (typeof value === 'number' && Number.isFinite(value)) numbers[key] = value;
73 }
74 const config: HookConfig = {
75 ...numbers,
76 compactAtPercent: optionNumber(options, 'compactAtPercent', HOOK_DEFAULTS.compactAtPercent),
77 minReductionRatio: optionNumber(
78 options,
79 'minReductionRatio',
80 HOOK_DEFAULTS.minReductionRatio,
81 ),
82 model: optionString(options, 'model') ?? HOOK_DEFAULTS.model,
83 };
84 const apiKey = optionString(options, 'apiKey');
85 if (apiKey) config.apiKey = apiKey;
86 const baseUrl = optionString(options, 'baseUrl');
87 if (baseUrl) config.baseUrl = baseUrl;
88 const goal = optionString(options, 'goal');
89 if (goal) config.goal = goal;
90 return config;
91}
92
93/** A `JevAsker` over the engine's `$.http.fetch`. */
94export function jevAsker(
95 fetchFn: HookFetch,
96 apiKey: string,
97 model: string,
98 baseUrl?: string,
99): JevAsker {
100 return {
101 async ask(state, questions) {
102 const request = buildJevRequest({ apiKey, model, baseUrl }, state, questions);
103 const response = await fetchFn(request.url, {
104 method: request.method,
105 headers: request.headers,
106 body: request.body,
107 });
108 return parseJevResponse(response.status, response.ok, response.text);
109 },
110 };
111}
112
113function toolUseSummary(tool: ToolUse): ToolUseSummary {
114 const summary: ToolUseSummary = {
115 tool_use_id: tool.tool_use_id,
116 tool: tool.tool,
117 input: tool.input,
118 };
119 if (tool.text !== undefined) summary.text = tool.text;
120 if (tool.isError) summary.isError = true;
121 return summary;
122}
123
124function toolResultSummary(result: ToolResult): ToolResultSummary {
125 return {
126 tool_use_id: result.tool_use_id,
127 text: result.text,
128 isError: result.isError ?? false,
129 };
130}
131
132/**
133 * Maps the library's output back onto session messages. Whatever came back
134 * unchanged (a message, a tool use, a tool result) is the engine's own object,
135 * handle included; anything rebuilt is a fresh message without a handle, so the
136 * engine takes the edited content instead of its original.
137 */
138export function toSessionMessages(
139 input: readonly SessionMessage[],
140 output: readonly Message[],
141): SessionMessage[] {
142 const messages = new Map<Message, SessionMessage>();
143 const uses = new Map<ToolUse, ToolUseSummary>();
144 const results = new Map<ToolResult, ToolResultSummary>();
145 for (const message of input) {
146 messages.set(message, message);
147 for (const tool of message.toolUses) uses.set(tool, tool);
148 for (const result of message.toolResults ?? []) results.set(result, result);
149 }
150 return output.map((message) => {
151 const own = messages.get(message);
152 if (own) return own;
153 const rebuilt: SessionMessage = {
154 role: message.role,
155 text: message.text,
156 toolUses: message.toolUses.map((tool) => uses.get(tool) ?? toolUseSummary(tool)),
157 };
158 if (message.toolResults && message.toolResults.length > 0) {
159 rebuilt.toolResults = message.toolResults.map(
160 (result) => results.get(result) ?? toolResultSummary(result),
161 );
162 }
163 return rebuilt;
164 });
165}
166
167export type SessionCompaction = {
168 result: CompactResult;
169 messages: SessionMessage[];
170};
171
172/** Runs the library over a session transcript; throws when the key is missing or Jev fails. */
173export async function compactSession(
174 messages: readonly SessionMessage[],
175 config: HookConfig,
176 fetchFn: HookFetch,
177): Promise<SessionCompaction> {
178 // A local Laya server ignores the Authorization header, but JevClient and
179 // buildJevRequest still want a non-empty key, so a placeholder stands in.
180 // Only the hosted endpoint genuinely needs one.
181 if (!config.apiKey && !config.baseUrl) {
182 throw new Error('no baseUrl and no TYPESAFE_API_KEY: set one of them');
183 }
184 if (!config.apiKey) config.apiKey = 'local';
185 const result = await compact(messages, jevAsker(fetchFn, config.apiKey, config.model, config.baseUrl), config);
186 return { result, messages: toSessionMessages(messages, result.messages) };
187}
188
189function percent(ratio: number): string {
190 return `${Math.round(ratio * 100)}%`;
191}
192
193export function summarize(result: CompactResult): string {
194 const { stats } = result;
195 const parts = [
196 stats.kept > 0 ? `${stats.kept} kept` : '',
197 stats.resultsDropped > 0 ? `${stats.resultsDropped} results truncated` : '',
198 stats.callsDropped > 0 ? `${stats.callsDropped} call_dropped` : '',
199 stats.pinned > 0 ? `${stats.pinned} pinned` : '',
200 ].filter(Boolean);
201 return `${percent(reductionRatio(result))} reduction; ${
202 parts.join(', ') || 'no tool calls'
203 }; state ~${stats.stateTokens} tokens (${stats.stateStage}) in ${stats.requests} request(s)`;
204}
205
206const UI_LOG_MAX_CHARS = 4096;
207
208export function decisionLog(result: CompactResult): string {
209 return result.decisions
210 .filter((d) => d.reason !== 'pinned')
211 .map(
212 (d) =>
213 `${d.id}:${d.tool}:${d.action}/call=${d.keepCall.toFixed(2)}/result=${d.keepResult.toFixed(2)}`,
214 )
215 .join(' ');
216}
217
218export function decisionLogLines(
219 result: CompactResult,
220 maxChars: number = UI_LOG_MAX_CHARS,
221): string[] {
222 const entries = decisionLog(result).split(' ').filter(Boolean);
223 if (entries.length === 0) return ['decisions: (none)'];
224 const chunks: string[] = [];
225 let current = '';
226 for (const entry of entries) {
227 const next = current ? `${current} ${entry}` : entry;
228 if (current && next.length > maxChars - 24) {
229 chunks.push(current);
230 current = entry;
231 } else current = next;
232 }
233 chunks.push(current);
234 return chunks.map((chunk, index) =>
235 chunks.length === 1
236 ? `decisions: ${chunk}`
237 : `decisions (${index + 1}/${chunks.length}): ${chunk}`,
238 );
239}
240
241async function getApiKey(
242 $: {
243 env: { get: (name: string) => Promise<string | undefined> };
244 settings: { read: () => Promise<Readonly<Record<string, unknown>>> };
245 },
246 config: HookConfig,
247): Promise<string | undefined> {
248 if (config.apiKey) return config.apiKey;
249 const fromEnv = await $.env.get('TYPESAFE_API_KEY');
250 if (fromEnv) return fromEnv;
251 const settings = await $.settings.read();
252 const env = settings['env'];
253 if (env && typeof env === 'object') {
254 const value = (env as Record<string, unknown>)['TYPESAFE_API_KEY'];
255 if (typeof value === 'string' && value) return value;
256 }
257 return undefined;
258}
259
260function notify(
261 $: {
262 ui: {
263 log: (text: string) => void;
264 toast: (text: string, options?: { timeoutMs?: number }) => void;
265 };
266 },
267 text: string,
268): void {
269 $.ui.log(text);
270 $.ui.toast(text, { timeoutMs: 15_000 });
271}
272
273export const register: Register = (on: On, options: PluginOptions) => {
274 const configured = resolveHookConfig(options);
275 let compacting = false;
276
277 on('session.compact', async ($, event, next) => {
278 try {
279 const config = { ...configured, apiKey: await getApiKey($, configured) };
280 const { result, messages } = await compactSession(event.messages, config, async (url, init) => {
281 const response = await $.http.fetch(url, init);
282 return { status: response.status, ok: response.ok, text: response.text };
283 });
284 for (const line of decisionLogLines(result)) $.ui.log(line);
285 if (reductionRatio(result) < config.minReductionRatio) {
286 notify(
287 $,
288 `fallback to built-in summary (below ${percent(config.minReductionRatio)} minimum: ${summarize(result)})`,
289 );
290 return next(event);
291 }
292 notify(
293 $,
294 `kept ${messages.length}/${event.messages.length} messages, no summary (${summarize(result)})`,
295 );
296 return { messages };
297 } catch (error) {
298 notify(
299 $,
300 `fallback to built-in summary (${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)})`,
301 );
302 return next(event);
303 }
304 });
305
306 on('turn.complete', async ($, event: TurnCompleteInput, next) => {
307 if (compacting) return next(event);
308 try {
309 const { context } = await $.session.usage();
310 if ((context.percent ?? 0) < configured.compactAtPercent) return next(event);
311 compacting = true;
312 await $.session.compact();
313 } catch (error) {
314 $.ui.log(
315 `auto-compact skipped (${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)})`,
316 );
317 } finally {
318 compacting = false;
319 }
320 return next(event);
321 });
322};
323
324export { resolveOptions };
325src/compact.ts 310 lines1import { noulAnswer } from './request.js';
2import { collectToolCalls, estimateTokens, fitState } from './state.js';
3import type {
4 CallAnswer,
5 CallDecision,
6 CompactOptions,
7 CompactResult,
8 CompactionState,
9 JevAsker,
10 JevQuestions,
11 Message,
12 ResolvedCompactOptions,
13 ToolCall,
14 ToolUse,
15} from './types.js';
16
17export const DEFAULT_OPTIONS: ResolvedCompactOptions = {
18 goal: '',
19 keepThreshold: 0.5,
20 preserveRecentMessages: 6,
21 maxStateTokens: 25_000,
22 maxRequestTokens: 30_000,
23 truncateHeadChars: 300,
24};
25
26/** Tokens the request envelope (`model`, key names) adds around state and questions. */
27const REQUEST_OVERHEAD_TOKENS = 20;
28
29function finite(value: number | undefined, fallback: number): number {
30 return typeof value === 'number' && Number.isFinite(value) ? value : fallback;
31}
32
33export function resolveOptions(options: CompactOptions = {}): ResolvedCompactOptions {
34 return {
35 goal: options.goal ?? DEFAULT_OPTIONS.goal,
36 keepThreshold: finite(options.keepThreshold, DEFAULT_OPTIONS.keepThreshold),
37 preserveRecentMessages: Math.max(
38 0,
39 Math.floor(
40 finite(options.preserveRecentMessages, DEFAULT_OPTIONS.preserveRecentMessages),
41 ),
42 ),
43 maxStateTokens: Math.max(1, finite(options.maxStateTokens, DEFAULT_OPTIONS.maxStateTokens)),
44 maxRequestTokens: Math.max(
45 1,
46 finite(options.maxRequestTokens, DEFAULT_OPTIONS.maxRequestTokens),
47 ),
48 truncateHeadChars: Math.max(
49 0,
50 Math.floor(finite(options.truncateHeadChars, DEFAULT_OPTIONS.truncateHeadChars)),
51 ),
52 };
53}
54
55/** The two `noul` questions asked about one call: keep the call, keep its result. */
56export function questionsFor(call: ToolCall): JevQuestions {
57 return {
58 [`call_${call.id}`]: {
59 type: 'noul',
60 instructions: `Tool call ${call.id} (${call.tool}) should stay in the history: knowing this call was made, with its input, still matters for what the assistant does next`,
61 },
62 [`result_${call.id}`]: {
63 type: 'noul',
64 instructions: `The full output of tool call ${call.id} (${call.tool}, ${call.resultChars} chars) should stay in the history verbatim: the assistant still needs its contents and re-running the tool would not do`,
65 },
66 };
67}
68
69/**
70 * Splits the candidate calls into batches whose questions, together with the
71 * (always complete) state, fit one request.
72 */
73export function batchCalls(
74 calls: readonly ToolCall[],
75 stateTokens: number,
76 options: Pick<ResolvedCompactOptions, 'maxRequestTokens'>,
77): ToolCall[][] {
78 const budget = options.maxRequestTokens - stateTokens - REQUEST_OVERHEAD_TOKENS;
79 const batches: ToolCall[][] = [];
80 let current: ToolCall[] = [];
81 let currentTokens = 0;
82 for (const call of calls) {
83 const tokens = estimateTokens(JSON.stringify(questionsFor(call)));
84 if (current.length > 0 && currentTokens + tokens > budget) {
85 batches.push(current);
86 current = [];
87 currentTokens = 0;
88 }
89 if (current.length === 0 && tokens > budget) {
90 throw new Error(
91 `state leaves no room for questions (~${stateTokens} of ${options.maxRequestTokens} tokens)`,
92 );
93 }
94 current.push(call);
95 currentTokens += tokens;
96 }
97 if (current.length > 0) batches.push(current);
98 return batches;
99}
100
101export function decideCall(
102 call: Pick<ToolCall, 'id' | 'tool' | 'pinned'>,
103 answer: CallAnswer,
104 options: Pick<ResolvedCompactOptions, 'keepThreshold'>,
105): CallDecision {
106 const base = { id: call.id, tool: call.tool, ...answer };
107 if (call.pinned) return { ...base, action: 'keep', reason: 'pinned' };
108 if (answer.keepResult >= options.keepThreshold) {
109 return { ...base, action: 'keep', reason: 'kept' };
110 }
111 if (answer.keepCall >= options.keepThreshold) {
112 return { ...base, action: 'drop_result', reason: 'result_dropped' };
113 }
114 return { ...base, action: 'drop_call', reason: 'call_dropped' };
115}
116
117async function askBatch(
118 asker: JevAsker,
119 state: CompactionState,
120 batch: readonly ToolCall[],
121): Promise<Map<string, CallAnswer>> {
122 const questions: JevQuestions = Object.assign({}, ...batch.map(questionsFor));
123 const { answers } = await asker.ask(state, questions);
124 return new Map(
125 batch.map((call) => [
126 call.id,
127 {
128 keepCall: noulAnswer(answers, `call_${call.id}`),
129 keepResult: noulAnswer(answers, `result_${call.id}`),
130 },
131 ]),
132 );
133}
134
135function truncatedResultText(text: string, isError: boolean, headChars: number): string {
136 if (text.length <= headChars + 120) return text;
137 const head = headChars > 0 ? `${text.slice(0, headChars)}\n` : '';
138 return `${head}[fast-jev-compaction truncated ${text.length - headChars} chars of this tool result${
139 isError ? ' (error)' : ''
140 }; re-run the tool if needed]`;
141}
142
143/**
144 * Rebuilds the conversation from the decisions. A dropped call disappears
145 * together with its result; a dropped result keeps a bounded head and note.
146 * Messages that lose all their content are removed; untouched messages are
147 * returned as the same objects they came in as.
148 */
149export function applyDecisions(
150 messages: readonly Message[],
151 decisions: readonly CallDecision[],
152 calls: readonly ToolCall[],
153 headChars: number,
154): Message[] {
155 const byId = new Map(calls.map((call) => [call.id, call]));
156 const actions = new Map<string, CallDecision['action']>();
157 for (const decision of decisions) {
158 const call = byId.get(decision.id);
159 if (call && decision.action !== 'keep') actions.set(call.tool_use_id, decision.action);
160 }
161 const kept: Message[] = [];
162 for (const message of messages) {
163 const touched =
164 message.toolUses.some((tool) => actions.has(tool.tool_use_id)) ||
165 (message.toolResults ?? []).some((result) => actions.has(result.tool_use_id));
166 if (!touched) {
167 kept.push(message);
168 continue;
169 }
170 const toolUses = message.toolUses
171 .filter((tool) => actions.get(tool.tool_use_id) !== 'drop_call')
172 .map((tool) => {
173 if (actions.get(tool.tool_use_id) !== 'drop_result') return tool;
174 const text = truncatedResultText(
175 tool.text ?? '',
176 tool.isError ?? false,
177 headChars,
178 );
179 if ((tool.text ?? '') === text) return tool;
180 const copy: ToolUse = {
181 tool_use_id: tool.tool_use_id,
182 tool: tool.tool,
183 input: tool.input,
184 text,
185 };
186 if (tool.isError) copy.isError = true;
187 return copy;
188 });
189 const toolResults = (message.toolResults ?? [])
190 .filter((result) => actions.get(result.tool_use_id) !== 'drop_call')
191 .map((result) => {
192 if (actions.get(result.tool_use_id) !== 'drop_result') return result;
193 const text = truncatedResultText(result.text, result.isError ?? false, headChars);
194 return text === result.text
195 ? result
196 : {
197 tool_use_id: result.tool_use_id,
198 text,
199 isError: result.isError,
200 };
201 });
202 if (
203 !message.toolUses.some(
204 (tool) => actions.get(tool.tool_use_id) === 'drop_call',
205 ) &&
206 !(message.toolResults ?? []).some(
207 (result) => actions.get(result.tool_use_id) === 'drop_call',
208 ) &&
209 toolUses.every((tool, index) => tool === message.toolUses[index]) &&
210 toolResults.every(
211 (result, index) => result === message.toolResults?.[index],
212 )
213 ) {
214 kept.push(message);
215 continue;
216 }
217 if (message.text.trim().length === 0 && toolUses.length === 0 && toolResults.length === 0) {
218 continue;
219 }
220 const rebuilt: Message = { role: message.role, text: message.text, toolUses };
221 if (toolResults.length > 0) rebuilt.toolResults = toolResults;
222 kept.push(rebuilt);
223 }
224 return kept;
225}
226
227/** Characters of text, tool input and tool output a message holds. */
228export function messageChars(message: Message): number {
229 let total = message.text.length;
230 for (const tool of message.toolUses) {
231 try {
232 total += JSON.stringify(tool.input).length;
233 } catch {
234 total += 20;
235 }
236 }
237 for (const result of message.toolResults ?? []) total += result.text.length;
238 return total;
239}
240
241export function reductionRatio(result: Pick<CompactResult, 'stats'>): number {
242 const { charsBefore, charsAfter } = result.stats;
243 return charsBefore === 0 ? 0 : (charsBefore - charsAfter) / charsBefore;
244}
245
246function count(decisions: readonly CallDecision[], reason: CallDecision['reason']): number {
247 return decisions.filter((decision) => decision.reason === reason).length;
248}
249
250/**
251 * Compacts a transcript by asking Jev, for every tool call outside the pinned
252 * first and newest messages, whether the call and whether its result must
253 * stay. The whole history (results omitted, fitted into `maxStateTokens`) is
254 * sent as state with every batch of questions. Throws when Jev fails or the
255 * history cannot be fitted; the caller decides whether to fall back.
256 */
257export async function compact(
258 messages: readonly Message[],
259 asker: JevAsker,
260 options: CompactOptions = {},
261): Promise<CompactResult> {
262 const started = Date.now();
263 const resolved = resolveOptions(options);
264 const calls = collectToolCalls(messages, resolved.preserveRecentMessages);
265 const candidates = calls.filter((call) => !call.pinned);
266 const charsBefore = messages.reduce((sum, message) => sum + messageChars(message), 0);
267
268 let fitted: { tokens: number; stage: string } = { tokens: 0, stage: '' };
269 let batches: ToolCall[][] = [];
270 const answers = new Map<string, CallAnswer>();
271 if (candidates.length > 0) {
272 const state = fitState(messages, calls, resolved);
273 fitted = state;
274 batches = batchCalls(candidates, state.tokens, resolved);
275 const answered = await Promise.all(
276 batches.map((batch) => askBatch(asker, state.state, batch)),
277 );
278 for (const map of answered) for (const [id, answer] of map) answers.set(id, answer);
279 }
280
281 const decisions = calls.map((call) =>
282 decideCall(call, answers.get(call.id) ?? { keepCall: 1, keepResult: 1 }, resolved),
283 );
284 const kept = applyDecisions(
285 messages,
286 decisions,
287 calls,
288 resolved.truncateHeadChars,
289 );
290 return {
291 messages: kept,
292 decisions,
293 stats: {
294 messagesBefore: messages.length,
295 messagesAfter: kept.length,
296 charsBefore,
297 charsAfter: kept.reduce((sum, message) => sum + messageChars(message), 0),
298 calls: calls.length,
299 kept: count(decisions, 'kept'),
300 resultsDropped: count(decisions, 'result_dropped'),
301 callsDropped: count(decisions, 'call_dropped'),
302 pinned: count(decisions, 'pinned'),
303 stateTokens: fitted.tokens,
304 stateStage: fitted.stage,
305 requests: batches.length,
306 ms: Date.now() - started,
307 },
308 };
309}
310src/request.ts 81 lines1import type { JevAnswer, JevQuestions, JevResponse, JevState } from './types.js';
2
3export const SYSTEM_ONE_URL = 'https://api.typesafe.ai/v1/systemone';
4export const DEFAULT_MODEL = 'jev-latest';
5
6export interface JevRequest {
7 url: string;
8 method: 'POST';
9 headers: Record<string, string>;
10 body: string;
11}
12
13/** The HTTP request for one Jev call, for any fetch-like transport. */
14export function buildJevRequest(
15 params: {
16 apiKey: string;
17 model?: string;
18 baseUrl?: string;
19 },
20 state: JevState,
21 questions: JevQuestions,
22): JevRequest {
23 return {
24 url: params.baseUrl ?? SYSTEM_ONE_URL,
25 method: 'POST',
26 headers: {
27 authorization: `Bearer ${params.apiKey}`,
28 'content-type': 'application/json',
29 },
30 body: JSON.stringify({
31 model: params.model ?? DEFAULT_MODEL,
32 state,
33 questions,
34 }),
35 };
36}
37
38/** Validates a Jev response body; throws on anything but an `answers` object. */
39export function parseJevResponse(
40 status: number,
41 ok: boolean,
42 text: string,
43): JevResponse {
44 if (!ok) {
45 throw new Error(`Jev request failed (${status}): ${text.slice(0, 200)}`);
46 }
47 let parsed: unknown;
48 try {
49 parsed = JSON.parse(text);
50 } catch {
51 throw new Error('Jev returned malformed JSON');
52 }
53 if (
54 parsed === null ||
55 typeof parsed !== 'object' ||
56 !('answers' in parsed) ||
57 parsed.answers === null ||
58 typeof parsed.answers !== 'object'
59 ) {
60 throw new Error('Jev response is missing answers');
61 }
62 return parsed as JevResponse;
63}
64
65/** The `noul` probability of one answer; throws when it is not there. */
66export function noulAnswer(
67 answers: Record<string, JevAnswer>,
68 name: string,
69): number {
70 const answer = answers[name];
71 if (
72 !answer ||
73 !('noul' in answer) ||
74 typeof answer.noul !== 'number' ||
75 !Number.isFinite(answer.noul)
76 ) {
77 throw new Error(`Invalid Jev answer for ${name}`);
78 }
79 return answer.noul;
80}
81src/types.ts 203 lines1export type Role = 'user' | 'assistant';
2
3/**
4 * A tool_use block of an assistant message. `text` and `isError` mirror the
5 * outcome once the transcript holds it (Claude Code attaches them).
6 */
7export interface ToolUse {
8 tool_use_id: string;
9 tool: string;
10 input: Record<string, unknown>;
11 text?: string;
12 isError?: boolean;
13}
14
15/** A tool_result block of a user message. */
16export interface ToolResult {
17 tool_use_id: string;
18 text: string;
19 isError?: boolean;
20}
21
22/**
23 * One transcript message. The shape is a subset of Claude Code's
24 * `SessionMessage`, so a session transcript can be passed in as is.
25 */
26export interface Message {
27 role: Role;
28 text: string;
29 toolUses: ToolUse[];
30 toolResults?: ToolResult[];
31}
32
33/** A tool call paired with its result by `tool_use_id`. */
34export interface ToolCall {
35 /** Short id used in the Jev state and question names (`t1`, `t2`, ...). */
36 id: string;
37 tool_use_id: string;
38 tool: string;
39 input: Record<string, unknown>;
40 /** Index of the message holding the tool_use block. */
41 callIndex: number;
42 /** Index of the message holding the tool_result block. */
43 resultIndex: number;
44 resultChars: number;
45 isError: boolean;
46 /** In the first or the newest preserved messages; never a candidate. */
47 pinned: boolean;
48}
49
50export interface CallAnswer {
51 /** Jev's probability that the call itself still matters. */
52 keepCall: number;
53 /** Jev's probability that the full result still needs to stay verbatim. */
54 keepResult: number;
55}
56
57export type CallAction = 'keep' | 'drop_result' | 'drop_call';
58
59export interface CallDecision extends CallAnswer {
60 id: string;
61 tool: string;
62 action: CallAction;
63 reason: 'pinned' | 'kept' | 'result_dropped' | 'call_dropped';
64}
65
66export interface HistoryToolCall {
67 id: string;
68 tool: string;
69 input: string;
70 result: string;
71}
72
73export interface HistoryEntry {
74 i: number;
75 role: Role;
76 text: string;
77 /** Structured per call, or one compact line per call once the state has to shrink. */
78 tool_calls?: HistoryToolCall[] | string[];
79}
80
81/** The state sent with every Jev request: the whole history, results omitted. */
82export interface CompactionState {
83 context: string;
84 goal: string;
85 history: HistoryEntry[];
86}
87
88export interface FittedState {
89 state: CompactionState;
90 tokens: number;
91 /** Which fitting stage produced the state, for diagnostics. */
92 stage: string;
93}
94
95export interface CompactOptions {
96 /** Ongoing task description; defaults to the last few user prompts. */
97 goal?: string;
98 /** Minimum keep probability for a call or result to stay. Default 0.5. */
99 keepThreshold?: number;
100 /** Newest messages never touched (the first message is always kept). Default 6. */
101 preserveRecentMessages?: number;
102 /** Estimated token ceiling for the state. Default 25000. */
103 maxStateTokens?: number;
104 /** Estimated token ceiling for state plus one batch of questions. Default 30000. */
105 maxRequestTokens?: number;
106 /** Characters of a dropped tool result to retain. Default 300. */
107 truncateHeadChars?: number;
108}
109
110export interface ResolvedCompactOptions {
111 goal: string;
112 keepThreshold: number;
113 preserveRecentMessages: number;
114 maxStateTokens: number;
115 maxRequestTokens: number;
116 truncateHeadChars: number;
117}
118
119export interface CompactResult {
120 /** The compacted transcript; untouched messages are the input objects. */
121 messages: Message[];
122 decisions: CallDecision[];
123 stats: {
124 messagesBefore: number;
125 messagesAfter: number;
126 charsBefore: number;
127 charsAfter: number;
128 calls: number;
129 kept: number;
130 resultsDropped: number;
131 callsDropped: number;
132 pinned: number;
133 stateTokens: number;
134 /** Which fitting stage the state needed, '' when no request was made. */
135 stateStage: string;
136 requests: number;
137 ms: number;
138 };
139}
140
141/** The `state` of a Jev request: a string or any JSON-serialisable object. */
142export type JevState = string | object;
143
144export interface NoulQuestion {
145 type: 'noul';
146 instructions: string;
147 criteria?: {
148 true?: string;
149 false?: string;
150 };
151}
152
153export interface ChoiceQuestion {
154 type: 'choice';
155 instructions: string;
156 criteria: Record<string, string | null>;
157}
158
159export interface ScoreQuestion {
160 type: 'score';
161 instructions: string;
162 criteria: string[];
163}
164
165export type JevQuestion = NoulQuestion | ChoiceQuestion | ScoreQuestion;
166export type JevQuestions = Record<string, JevQuestion>;
167
168export interface NoulAnswer {
169 type?: 'noul';
170 noul: number;
171}
172
173export interface ChoiceAnswer {
174 type?: 'choice';
175 choice: string;
176 confidence: number;
177 probabilities: Record<string, number>;
178}
179
180export interface ScoreAnswer {
181 type?: 'score';
182 score: number;
183 confidence: number;
184 probabilities: Record<string, number>;
185}
186
187export type JevAnswer = NoulAnswer | ChoiceAnswer | ScoreAnswer;
188
189export interface JevResponse {
190 model?: string;
191 answers: Record<string, JevAnswer>;
192 usage?: {
193 input_tokens?: number;
194 output_tokens?: number;
195 };
196 [key: string]: unknown;
197}
198
199/** Anything that can answer Jev questions: `JevClient`, or a host-provided adapter. */
200export interface JevAsker {
201 ask(state: JevState, questions: JevQuestions): Promise<JevResponse>;
202}
203src/state.ts 305 lines1import type {
2 CompactionState,
3 FittedState,
4 HistoryEntry,
5 Message,
6 ResolvedCompactOptions,
7 ToolCall,
8 ToolResult,
9} from './types.js';
10
11export const STATE_CONTEXT =
12 'A coding assistant conversation is being compacted to free context. `history` is the whole conversation so far, oldest first; tool outputs are replaced by a short `result` note and long texts may be abridged. Each question asks whether one tool call, or the full output of that call, still needs to stay in the history verbatim. Whatever is not kept is deleted permanently, but the assistant can always re-run a tool or re-read a file.';
13
14/** Successive caps on the serialised tool input included per call. */
15const INPUT_CHARS = [1000, 200, 60] as const;
16const TEXT_HEAD = 400;
17const TEXT_TAIL = 150;
18
19const TOKEN_PIECES = /[A-Za-z]+|\d+|[^\sA-Za-z\d]/g;
20
21/**
22 * Estimates tokens without a tokenizer: a word costs one token per six
23 * letters, a digit half a token, any other symbol nine tenths. Calibrated
24 * against the usage Jev reports for real transcripts, where it lands 2–18%
25 * above the true count; a plain characters-per-token ratio undercounts the
26 * JSON-heavy states by up to 40%.
27 */
28export function estimateTokens(text: string): number {
29 let tokens = 0;
30 for (const [piece] of text.matchAll(TOKEN_PIECES)) {
31 const first = piece.charCodeAt(0);
32 if (first >= 48 && first <= 57) tokens += piece.length / 2;
33 else if ((first >= 65 && first <= 90) || (first >= 97 && first <= 122)) {
34 tokens += 1 + Math.floor((piece.length - 1) / 6);
35 } else tokens += 0.9;
36 }
37 return Math.ceil(tokens);
38}
39
40export function truncate(text: string, limit: number): string {
41 return text.length <= limit ? text : `${text.slice(0, Math.max(0, limit - 1))}…`;
42}
43
44function abridge(text: string, head: number, tail: number): string {
45 if (text.length <= head + tail + 40) return text;
46 const omitted = text.length - head - tail;
47 return `${text.slice(0, head)}\n[… ${omitted} chars omitted …]\n${text.slice(-tail)}`;
48}
49
50export function isPinned(
51 index: number,
52 total: number,
53 preserveRecentMessages: number,
54): boolean {
55 return index === 0 || index >= total - preserveRecentMessages;
56}
57
58/**
59 * Pairs every tool_use with its tool_result by `tool_use_id`. Calls without a
60 * result are not candidates (there is nothing to drop yet).
61 */
62export function collectToolCalls(
63 messages: readonly Message[],
64 preserveRecentMessages: number,
65): ToolCall[] {
66 const results = new Map<string, { index: number; result: ToolResult }>();
67 messages.forEach((message, index) => {
68 for (const result of message.toolResults ?? []) {
69 results.set(result.tool_use_id, { index, result });
70 }
71 });
72 const calls: ToolCall[] = [];
73 messages.forEach((message, callIndex) => {
74 for (const tool of message.toolUses) {
75 const found = results.get(tool.tool_use_id);
76 if (!found) continue;
77 calls.push({
78 id: `t${calls.length + 1}`,
79 tool_use_id: tool.tool_use_id,
80 tool: tool.tool,
81 input: tool.input,
82 callIndex,
83 resultIndex: found.index,
84 resultChars: found.result.text.length,
85 isError: found.result.isError ?? false,
86 pinned:
87 isPinned(callIndex, messages.length, preserveRecentMessages) ||
88 isPinned(found.index, messages.length, preserveRecentMessages),
89 });
90 }
91 });
92 return calls;
93}
94
95function inputText(input: Record<string, unknown>, limit: number): string {
96 let json = '';
97 try {
98 json = JSON.stringify(input);
99 } catch {
100 json = '[unserializable input]';
101 }
102 return truncate(json, limit);
103}
104
105function resultNote(call: ToolCall): string {
106 return `${call.isError ? 'error' : 'ok'}, ${call.resultChars} chars (omitted)`;
107}
108
109/** One call as a single line, for when the structured form is too costly. */
110function compactCall(call: ToolCall): string {
111 const input = Object.entries(call.input)
112 .map(([key, value]) => {
113 const text = typeof value === 'string' ? value : inputText({ [key]: value }, 200);
114 return `${key}=${text.replace(/\s+/g, ' ')}`;
115 })
116 .join(' ');
117 return `${call.id} ${call.tool} ${truncate(input, INPUT_CHARS[2])} → ${
118 call.isError ? 'error' : 'ok'
119 } ${call.resultChars}ch`;
120}
121
122/**
123 * Folds runs of adjacent call-only entries into one entry each, so the
124 * per-entry envelope is paid once per run; the call lines keep their ids.
125 */
126function mergeCallRuns(history: readonly HistoryEntry[], pinned: (e: HistoryEntry) => boolean): HistoryEntry[] {
127 const merged: HistoryEntry[] = [];
128 for (const entry of history) {
129 const previous = merged[merged.length - 1];
130 const foldable = (e: HistoryEntry): boolean =>
131 !pinned(e) && e.text.length === 0 && typeof e.tool_calls?.[0] === 'string';
132 if (previous && foldable(previous) && foldable(entry) && previous.role === entry.role) {
133 previous.tool_calls = [...(previous.tool_calls as string[]), ...(entry.tool_calls as string[])];
134 continue;
135 }
136 merged.push({ ...entry });
137 }
138 return merged;
139}
140
141function callsByMessage(calls: readonly ToolCall[]): Map<number, ToolCall[]> {
142 const byMessage = new Map<number, ToolCall[]>();
143 for (const call of calls) {
144 const list = byMessage.get(call.callIndex) ?? [];
145 list.push(call);
146 byMessage.set(call.callIndex, list);
147 }
148 return byMessage;
149}
150
151function historyEntries(
152 messages: readonly Message[],
153 calls: readonly ToolCall[],
154 inputChars: number,
155): HistoryEntry[] {
156 const byMessage = callsByMessage(calls);
157 const entries: HistoryEntry[] = [];
158 messages.forEach((message, i) => {
159 const toolCalls = (byMessage.get(i) ?? []).map((call) => ({
160 id: call.id,
161 tool: call.tool,
162 input: inputText(call.input, inputChars),
163 result: resultNote(call),
164 }));
165 if (message.text.trim().length === 0 && toolCalls.length === 0) return;
166 const entry: HistoryEntry = { i, role: message.role, text: message.text };
167 if (toolCalls.length > 0) entry.tool_calls = toolCalls;
168 entries.push(entry);
169 });
170 return entries;
171}
172
173/** The last three user prompts, as the default `goal`. */
174export function goalFromMessages(messages: readonly Message[]): string {
175 return messages
176 .filter(
177 (message) =>
178 message.role === 'user' &&
179 message.text.trim().length > 0 &&
180 (message.toolResults ?? []).length === 0,
181 )
182 .slice(-3)
183 .map((message) => truncate(message.text, 500))
184 .join('\n');
185}
186
187/**
188 * Builds the Jev state from the whole conversation and shrinks it in stages
189 * until it fits `maxStateTokens`: tool inputs are truncated, then long texts
190 * are abridged oldest-first (pinned messages last), then old messages collapse
191 * to a one-line note, then old tool calls shrink to one line each, then old
192 * messages that carry no call are left out, then runs of old call-only
193 * messages are folded into one entry. Throws when even that is too big.
194 */
195export function fitState(
196 messages: readonly Message[],
197 calls: readonly ToolCall[],
198 options: Pick<ResolvedCompactOptions, 'maxStateTokens' | 'preserveRecentMessages' | 'goal'>,
199): FittedState {
200 const goal = options.goal || goalFromMessages(messages);
201 const stateOf = (history: HistoryEntry[]): CompactionState => ({
202 context: STATE_CONTEXT,
203 goal,
204 history,
205 });
206 const entryTokens = (entry: HistoryEntry): number => estimateTokens(JSON.stringify(entry)) + 1;
207 const baseTokens = estimateTokens(JSON.stringify(stateOf([])));
208 const fitted = (history: HistoryEntry[], tokens: number, stage: string): FittedState => ({
209 state: stateOf(history),
210 tokens,
211 stage,
212 });
213
214 let history: HistoryEntry[] = [];
215 let perEntry: number[] = [];
216 let tokens = 0;
217 const rebuild = (inputChars: number): void => {
218 history = historyEntries(messages, calls, inputChars);
219 perEntry = history.map(entryTokens);
220 tokens = baseTokens + perEntry.reduce((sum, n) => sum + n, 0);
221 };
222 const fits = (): boolean => tokens <= options.maxStateTokens;
223 const shrink = (index: number, change: (entry: HistoryEntry) => void): void => {
224 const entry = history[index];
225 if (!entry) return;
226 change(entry);
227 const now = entryTokens(entry);
228 tokens += now - (perEntry[index] ?? 0);
229 perEntry[index] = now;
230 };
231
232 rebuild(INPUT_CHARS[0]);
233 if (fits()) return fitted(history, tokens, 'full');
234
235 for (const limit of INPUT_CHARS.slice(1)) {
236 rebuild(limit);
237 if (fits()) return fitted(history, tokens, `inputs<=${limit}`);
238 }
239
240 const pinned = (entry: HistoryEntry): boolean =>
241 isPinned(entry.i, messages.length, options.preserveRecentMessages);
242 const indices = history.map((_, index) => index);
243 const order = [
244 ...indices.filter((index) => !pinned(history[index]!)),
245 ...indices.filter((index) => pinned(history[index]!)),
246 ];
247
248 for (const index of order) {
249 const entry = history[index]!;
250 if (entry.text.length <= TEXT_HEAD + TEXT_TAIL + 40) continue;
251 shrink(index, (e) => {
252 e.text = abridge(e.text, TEXT_HEAD, TEXT_TAIL);
253 });
254 if (fits()) return fitted(history, tokens, 'texts abridged');
255 }
256
257 for (const index of order) {
258 const entry = history[index]!;
259 if (pinned(entry) || entry.text.length === 0) continue;
260 const original = messages[entry.i]?.text.length ?? entry.text.length;
261 shrink(index, (e) => {
262 e.text = `[… ${original} chars omitted …]`;
263 });
264 if (fits()) return fitted(history, tokens, 'old messages collapsed');
265 }
266
267 const byMessage = callsByMessage(calls);
268 for (const index of order) {
269 const entry = history[index]!;
270 const own = byMessage.get(entry.i);
271 if (pinned(entry) || !own) continue;
272 shrink(index, (e) => {
273 e.tool_calls = own.map(compactCall);
274 });
275 if (fits()) return fitted(history, tokens, 'old calls compacted');
276 }
277
278 const left = new Set<number>();
279 for (const index of order) {
280 const entry = history[index]!;
281 if (pinned(entry) || entry.tool_calls) continue;
282 left.add(index);
283 tokens -= perEntry[index] ?? 0;
284 if (fits()) {
285 return fitted(
286 history.filter((_, i) => !left.has(i)),
287 tokens,
288 'old messages left out',
289 );
290 }
291 }
292
293 history = mergeCallRuns(
294 history.filter((_, i) => !left.has(i)),
295 pinned,
296 );
297 perEntry = history.map(entryTokens);
298 tokens = baseTokens + perEntry.reduce((sum, n) => sum + n, 0);
299 if (fits()) return fitted(history, tokens, 'old calls merged');
300
301 throw new Error(
302 `history too large for Jev (~${tokens} tokens after truncation, limit ${options.maxStateTokens})`,
303 );
304}
305