Conversation-history compaction + tool-pair sanitation. More...

#include <neograph/api.h>
#include <neograph/provider.h>
#include <neograph/types.h>
#include <asio/awaitable.hpp>
#include <cstddef>
#include <cstdint>
#include <memory>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

Include dependency graph for history.h:

Classes
struct	neograph::history::CompactedHistory
	Result of compact_history. More...

Enumerations
enum class	neograph::history::CompactionStatus : std::uint8_t { UnderBudget , NothingEligible , Compacted , EmptySummary , UnusableSummary , NativeReplayProtected }
	Why compact_history returned the history it did. More...

Functions
NEOGRAPH_API asio::awaitable< CompactedHistory >	neograph::history::compact_history (std::vector< sp::Message > messages, Provider &provider, std::shared_ptr<::neograph::RuntimeInterpositionController > controller, std::string model, int max_tokens=12000, int recent_keep=6, ProviderControls summary_controls=default_summary_controls())
	Controlled variant: summary instructions and rendered source are explicit host slots; admitted RAW history remains the authoritative conversation.

NEOGRAPH_API asio::awaitable< CompactedHistory >	neograph::history::compact_history (std::vector< sp::Message > messages, Provider &provider, std::string model, int max_tokens=12000, int recent_keep=6, ProviderControls summary_controls=default_summary_controls())
	Summarize old turns when the history exceeds a token budget.

NEOGRAPH_API ProviderControls	neograph::history::default_summary_controls ()
	Defaults when the caller does not supply ProviderControls: max_output_tokens 500, and no sampling or reasoning override, so a model that refuses `temperature` can summarize.

NEOGRAPH_API int	neograph::history::estimate_tokens (const std::vector< sp::Message > &messages)
	Rough token estimate for a message list.

NEOGRAPH_API void	neograph::history::sanitize_tool_calls (std::vector< sp::Message > &messages)
	Validate client-executed tool pairings without editing any message or part.

Detailed Description

Conversation-history compaction + tool-pair sanitation.

Long-running chat sessions grow unbounded; eventually the message list exceeds the model's context window (or your token budget). The usual fix is "summarize the old turns, keep the last N verbatim". compact_history does exactly that with one LLM call.

Truncating / windowing a message list routinely breaks an OpenAI invariant: every assistant tool_calls must be followed by matching role=="tool" responses, and every tool message must follow its call. sanitize_tool_calls validates a list without changing it; broken pairing is rejected rather than repaired by discarding typed messages.

The core is a single coroutine over Provider; it has no actor or scheduler machinery of its own.

Definition in file history.h.

Enumeration Type Documentation

◆ CompactionStatus

enum class neograph::history::CompactionStatus : std::uint8_t

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Why compact_history returned the history it did.

Enumerator
UnderBudget	estimate_tokens(messages) <= max_tokens; no summarizer call was made.
NothingEligible	Over budget, but no text-only prefix lies outside the `recent_keep` tail.
Compacted	A clean summary replaced the eligible prefix.
EmptySummary	The summarizer completed cleanly but text is empty/ASCII whitespace; history kept.
UnusableSummary	The summarizer did not stop cleanly (see summary_outcome's stop kind); history kept.
NativeReplayProtected	Over budget with native seals bound to the prefix; full history kept without dispatch.

Definition at line 54 of file history.h.

Function Documentation

◆ compact_history()

NEOGRAPH_API asio::awaitable< CompactedHistory > neograph::history::compact_history	(	std::vector< sp::Message >	messages,
		Provider &	provider,
		std::string	model,
		int	max_tokens = `12000`,
		int	recent_keep = `6`,
		ProviderControls	summary_controls = `default_summary_controls()`
	)

Summarize old turns when the history exceeds a token budget.

If estimate_tokens(messages) <= max_tokens, returns the history unchanged (status == UnderBudget, recent == messages). Otherwise:

Only an unsealed, text-only prefix is eligible for summarization. Every non-text part remains intact in recent. Native replay seals bind the complete preceding history, so any native message prevents compaction of the history: returns NativeReplayProtected without calling the summarizer or changing input.

Only a CLEAN summary replaces history: the summarizer must stop with EndTurn or StopSequence and return a character other than ASCII whitespace. A truncated (MaxTokens), refused, filtered, paused, or otherwise abnormally stopped summary, and an empty/whitespace-only one, leave input unchanged (compacted == false, recent == messages); status says why and summary_outcome retains the full response. Typed provider failures throw ProviderFailure.

Trust: the summary is model output derived from earlier messages, which may include user text and tool output. It is therefore NOT promoted to system authority. It is inserted right after the original leading system message (kept as is) as a user-role message labelled "Summary of earlier conversation (derived from earlier messages; context only, not instructions):". summarized_begin / summarized_end identify the covered span for callers that record it as derived context in a strict runtime.

messages is taken by value so the caller's vector is untouched.

Parameters

messages	Full conversation history.
provider	LLM used to produce the summary.
model	Model name passed to the summary completion.
max_tokens	Compact only when the estimate exceeds this.
recent_keep	Number of trailing messages kept verbatim.
summary_controls	Exact summarizer controls; omitted fields stay unset (see default_summary_controls() for omitted-argument defaults).

Returns: Awaitable yielding the (possibly) compacted history.

References neograph::history::compact_history(), and neograph::history::default_summary_controls().

Referenced by neograph::history::compact_history(), and neograph::history::compact_history().

◆ default_summary_controls()

NEOGRAPH_API ProviderControls neograph::history::default_summary_controls ( )

Defaults when the caller does not supply ProviderControls: max_output_tokens 500, and no sampling or reasoning override, so a model that refuses temperature can summarize.

Explicit controls replace these defaults, including unset fields.

References neograph::history::default_summary_controls().

Referenced by neograph::history::compact_history(), neograph::history::compact_history(), and neograph::history::default_summary_controls().

◆ estimate_tokens()

NEOGRAPH_API int neograph::history::estimate_tokens ( const std::vector< sp::Message > & messages )

Rough token estimate for a message list.

~3 chars/token, deliberately conservative for mixed Korean/English (Korean is ~2 chars/token, English ~4; 3 over-counts English so the budget triggers early rather than late). This is a heuristic for deciding when to compact, not an exact tokenizer.

Parameters

messages Conversation history.