Describe child agent directories and limits

[onechat] / compactor.go

package main

import (
        "context"
        "errors"
        "fmt"
        "slices"
        "strings"
        "unicode/utf8"
)

// compactorTries is the most calls for one node.
const compactorTries = 5

// compactorRuler shows the model the size limit of a line. Models cannot count
// bytes, and a sample line as the ruler gets its content copied.
var compactorRuler = strings.Repeat("-", nodeBytes)

// newCompactor returns the compactor of an agent, which sends its calls through
// client with model. instructions gives the system prompt of the agent at each
// build. tools are the tools of that agent, so a build sends the same prompt
// and tools as its turns.
func newCompactor(client *ModelClient, instructions func() (string, error), model ModelConfig, tools []ModelTool) *Compactor {
        return &Compactor{
                client:       client,
                model:        model,
                instructions: instructions,
                tools:        tools,
        }
}

// Compactor builds the nodes of one agent with a model. A compaction is a call
// like a turn, with the same system prompt and tools, so it reads them from the
// prompt cache of the turns. The tools are never called. After them comes one
// user message with the compaction view up to the node, its closing tag, a
// newline, and the task.
//
// When the line is over nodeBytes, the next try sends the same message, plus
// one more user message with a note with the size of the newest line and its
// cut at the limit. A try never sends the model's earlier reply or reasoning
// back, so every try begins with the same view and task and has about the same
// size. After at most compactorTries tries, the shortest line is the node. A
// few bytes over the limit is fine, because the view measures the real sizes. A
// call that fails before any line fails the build, and the core tries it again
// at the next message.
type Compactor struct {
        client       *ModelClient
        model        ModelConfig
        instructions func() (string, error)
        tools        []ModelTool
}

// Summarize returns the line of the node of task.
func (c *Compactor) Summarize(ctx context.Context, task Task) (string, error) {
        text, err := compactorTask(task)
        if err != nil {
                return "", err
        }

        instructions, err := c.instructions()
        if err != nil {
                return "", err
        }

        first := []any{modelUserMessage(task.Context + "\n" + text)}

        var lines []string

        note := ""
        for len(lines) < compactorTries {
                input := first
                if note != "" {
                        input = append(slices.Clip(first), modelUserMessage(note))
                }

                var response ModelResponse

                response, err = c.client.Create(ctx, ModelRequest{
                        Model:        c.model.Model,
                        Effort:       c.model.Effort,
                        Instructions: instructions,
                        Tools:        c.tools,
                        Input:        input,
                        Node:         &NodeKey{task.Level, task.Index},
                })
                if err != nil {
                        break
                }

                line := strings.TrimSpace(response.Text)
                if line == "" {
                        err = errors.New("compaction gave no line")
                        break
                }

                lines = append(lines, line)
                if len(line) <= nodeBytes {
                        break
                }

                note = compactorTooLong(line)
        }

        if len(lines) == 0 {
                return "", err
        }

        return compactorShortest(lines), nil
}

// compactorTask returns the task of a build, with its input.
func compactorTask(task Task) (string, error) {
        if task.Level == 0 && len(task.Input) == 1 {
                return fmt.Sprintf(`Compaction: compress message %d into one line of at most %d bytes
(about 70 words), the length of this ruler:
%s
<input>
%s
</input>`, task.Index, nodeBytes, compactorRuler, task.Input[0]), nil
        }

        if task.Level > 0 && len(task.Input) == 2 {
                first := task.Index << task.Level
                half := 1 << (task.Level - 1)

                return fmt.Sprintf(`Compaction: merge lines %d+%d and %d+%d, adjacent, into one line of at most
%d bytes (about 70 words), the length of this ruler:
%s
<chat> may hold their messages, %d to %d, in more detail: take details
of them from there too.
<input>
%s
%s
</input>`, first, half, first+half, half, nodeBytes, compactorRuler, first, nodeEnd(task.Level, task.Index)-1, task.Input[0], task.Input[1]), nil
        }

        return "", fmt.Errorf("node (%d, %d) has %d inputs", task.Level, task.Index, len(task.Input))
}

// compactorTooLong returns the note for a line over nodeBytes: its size and its
// first nodeBytes bytes, which show the model where the limit cuts it.
func compactorTooLong(line string) string {
        return fmt.Sprintf(`Too long: your last line for this <input> was %d bytes,
over the %d-byte limit. Write the whole line again, cutting just
enough of the least valuable items to fit before this cut:
%s| <- LIMIT`, len(line), nodeBytes, compactorCutLine(line))
}

// compactorShortest returns the first of the compactorShortest lines.
func compactorShortest(lines []string) string {
        best := lines[0]
        for _, line := range lines[1:] {
                if len(line) < len(best) {
                        best = line
                }
        }

        return best
}

// compactorCutLine returns the first nodeBytes bytes of line, without a part of
// a character at the end.
func compactorCutLine(line string) string {
        if len(line) <= nodeBytes {
                return line
        }

        cut := line[:nodeBytes]
        for !utf8.ValidString(cut) {
                cut = cut[:len(cut)-1]
        }

        return cut
}