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hermes-agent/agent/context_compressor_summary.py
teknium1 07c92d675a fix(compression): repeated summary stall escalates to the deterministic fallback summary
A first stalled summary stream keeps today's behaviour: the transcript is left
alone, the stall-class cooldown (floored at the idle window) is armed and the
LLM route retries after it lapses. When the route stalls AGAIN while a
stall-class failure is still on the ladder, the stall retry ladder now ends
with a deterministic rung: the worker is re-run with the summary LLM skipped
(DETERMINISTIC_SUMMARY_ROUTE pin, consumed in _summarize_window) and
compress() commits its static fallback summary through the ordinary
lease/fence/watermark pipeline — the same degrade a failed summary call gets
(abort_on_summary_failure still aborts).

WHY: after "made no progress … continuing without compression" the context
stays oversized, so the next turn after the cooldown re-enters the same silent
stream and burns another full idle window; the reporter saw this every ~2 min
for hours (#112420). A route that has proven unhealthy twice must degrade once
instead of looping. The prune-on-stall hunk from #112504 was declined because
it committed outside the lease/fence; this rung reuses the same-turn fallback
worker (bypass_cooldown) and the commit path the fallback_chain retry already
uses, so no new commit surface is introduced.

Also: a pinned fallback_chain route whose summary call FAILS still commits the
static fallback summary (default abort_on_summary_failure=false); the host log
said "recovered on fallback_chain[0]" for that. It now logs "committed a
deterministic fallback summary on …" at WARNING (#112387 review caveat), keyed
on the post-commit fallback_compression_streak bump.

Docs: developer-guide failure-cooldown section + agent/AGENTS.md.
2026-09-17 08:59:50 -07:00

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"""Summary-hook dispatch and cancellation rollback for context compression."""
from __future__ import annotations
import inspect
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Dict, List, Optional
from agent.auxiliary_client import AuxiliaryExplicitCancellation
if TYPE_CHECKING:
from agent.context_compressor import _HandoffScan
def _accepts_keyword_argument(callable_obj: Any, name: str) -> bool:
"""Return whether an inspectable callable accepts ``name`` as a keyword."""
try:
parameters = inspect.signature(callable_obj).parameters
except (TypeError, ValueError):
return False
if any(parameter.kind is inspect.Parameter.VAR_KEYWORD for parameter in parameters.values()):
return True
parameter = parameters.get(name)
return parameter is not None and parameter.kind in (
inspect.Parameter.POSITIONAL_OR_KEYWORD,
inspect.Parameter.KEYWORD_ONLY,
)
class SummaryDispatchMixin:
def _summarize_window(
self, messages: List[Dict[str, Any]], turns_to_summarize: List[Dict[str, Any]], scan: "_HandoffScan",
focus_topic: Optional[str], memory_context: str, bypass_cooldown: bool,
) -> Optional[str]:
"""Run the summary LLM; a cancellation rolls back the handoff scan's self-heal mutation first.
A deterministic pin (repeated stall, #112420) skips the LLM: ``None`` lets Phase 3 insert the static
fallback summary, or abort under ``abort_on_summary_failure`` exactly like a failed summary call."""
from agent.context_compressor import take_deterministic_summary_pin
if take_deterministic_summary_pin():
# Surfaces through the fallback summary's reason line and the host's one-shot user warning.
self._last_summary_error = (
"summary model stalled again after a stall backoff; deterministic fallback summary inserted"
)
telemetry = getattr(self, "_active_compression_telemetry", None)
if isinstance(telemetry, dict):
telemetry["failure_class"] = "stall_deterministic_fallback"
return None
# Focus-topic derivation scans user turns; only pay when a summary is generated.
summary_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = {
"focus_topic": focus_topic or self._derive_auto_focus_topic(messages),
"memory_context": memory_context,
}
if _accepts_keyword_argument(self._generate_summary, "bypass_cooldown"):
summary_kwargs["bypass_cooldown"] = bypass_cooldown
try:
return self._generate_summary(turns_to_summarize, **summary_kwargs)
except AuxiliaryExplicitCancellation:
# Cancellation is a true no-op: restore the scan's mutation before the exception escapes.
self._previous_summary = scan.previous_summary_before
self._summary_has_user_turn = scan.has_user_turn_before
raise