* feat(memory): template externalization — externalized prompts + signal patterns
Externalize two categories of hardcoded content in the DeerMem memory
backend so operators can customise them without touching Python code.
Prompt externalization (plugin 06):
- 4 memory extraction prompts moved from Python string constants to YAML
files under core/prompts/ (consolidation / fact_extraction /
memory_update.chat / staleness_review).
- load_prompt(name) and load_prompt_messages(name, variables) loaders.
- memory_update uses the chat format (system / user message split) for
prompt-caching-friendly system prefixes; other prompts stay text.
- The extraction callback + per-agent prompt directories + Jinja2
dependency are intentionally not included (minimal surface).
- Compatible with the upstream prompt additions from #4143
(expected_valid_days, staleFactsToExtend, KEEP/REMOVE/EXTEND in
staleness review).
Signal-pattern externalization (plugin 07, regex only):
- Correction and reinforcement detection patterns externalised to
core/message_patterns/{correction,reinforcement}.yaml.
- load_patterns(name, patterns_dir) loader with bundled defaults.
- detect_correction / detect_reinforcement accept a keyword-only
patterns= parameter; signatures are backward-compatible.
- patterns_dir config field added to DeerMemConfig.
- Importance scorer (importance.py, build_importance_scorer,
_prepare_update changes) is NOT included — deferred to a later PR.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(memory): fail loudly on invalid yaml in prompt/pattern loaders
Replace silent error handling in load_prompt / load_prompt_messages /
load_patterns so malformed yaml or missing required keys raise ValueError
with the file path rather than a raw YAMLError traceback or silent
empty-string / empty-list return.
Changes:
- load_prompt: YAMLError -> ValueError(path); missing/empty 'template'
key -> ValueError
- load_prompt_messages: YAMLError -> ValueError(path); missing/empty
'messages' key -> ValueError; KeyError from .format (placeholder
mismatch) -> ValueError
- load_patterns: YAMLError -> ValueError (was silent warn+return []).
OSError still degrades (permission, not format). Not-a-list yaml
-> ValueError (was silent warn+return []).
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(memory): wire prompts_dir through updater, fail-loud patterns_dir, bump config_version
Addresses PR feedback on the template-externalization PR:
P1 — Wire prompts_dir into the DeerMem update path:
- Add prompts_dir field to DeerMemConfig (default None = bundled defaults).
- Thread it through DeerMem -> MemoryUpdater.__init__(prompts_dir=).
- _build_staleness_section / _build_consolidation_section accept
prompts_dir= keyword and call load_prompt() instead of relying on
module-level shim constants.
- _prepare_update_prompt passes prompts_dir to load_prompt_messages
and to both section builders.
- Add _PROMPT_CACHE to load_prompt so repeated lookups (once per
memory-update cycle) do not re-read yaml from disk.
P2 — Explicit patterns_dir must find its files:
- When patterns_dir is explicitly set and a YAML file is missing,
load_patterns() raises FileNotFoundError instead of silently caching
an empty list. Bundled defaults (patterns_dir=None) still log a
WARNING and return [] for a missing bundled file (packaging bug).
P3 — Bump config_version and sync Helm:
- config.example.yaml: 26 -> 27
- deploy/helm/deer-flow/values.yaml: 26 -> 27
- deploy/helm/deer-flow/README.md: 26 -> 27
- scripts/check_config_version.sh confirms parity.
Tests: 224 passed (218 memory + 6 config_version).
Lint: ruff check + ruff format --check pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(memory): cache load_prompt_messages, validate format fields, fail-loud load_patterns
Review feedback from willem-bd:
Cache for load_prompt_messages:
Add _CHAT_TEMPLATE_CACHE + _render_messages() helper so the parsed chat
templates are cached per (name, agent, prompts_dir). On cache hit only
.format() rendering runs; the yaml file is read once per key.
Validate format field in both loaders:
load_prompt rejects format='chat' (redirects to load_prompt_messages);
load_prompt_messages rejects format='text' (redirects to load_prompt).
Prevents operators from loading a chat yaml via the text loader (or vice
versa) without a clear error.
Load_patterns fail-loud for explicit directories:
- OSError (permission, etc.) now raises for explicit patterns_dir
instead of silently disabling detection.
- Malformed entries (missing/empty pattern key, wrong type) are skipped
with a WARNING instead of silent skip.
- Unknown flag names are warned instead of silently dropped.
- re.error from compile() raises ValueError with file path and entry
index instead of a bare re.error traceback.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(memory): thread agent_name through section builders, validate explicit prompts at construction, bump config_version to 28
P1 — Thread agent_name through staleness/consolidation section builders:
_build_staleness_section and _build_consolidation_section now accept
agent_name= and pass it to load_prompt(), so per-agent prompt overrides
work for section templates too (not just memory_update). Previously
only prompts_dir was threaded; agent_name was ignored for section
builders.
P1 — Validate explicit prompts at DeerMem construction:
When DeerMemConfig.prompts_dir is explicitly set, DeerMem.__init__ now
pre-loads all four prompt templates (staleness_review, consolidation,
fact_extraction, memory_update with dummy variables) at construction
time. A missing file, malformed YAML, or invalid placeholder raises
immediately at startup instead of being caught by the updater's
generic error handler and silently dropped as a failed update.
P2 — Advance config_version to 28:
Upstream main already consumed the previous 26→27 bump with a
different schema change. Bump config.example.yaml, Helm values.yaml,
and Helm README.md to 28 to version this PR's patterns_dir and
prompts_dir additions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(memory): render text templates at construction, propagate PromptConfigurationError
Keep prompt-configuration failures out of the recoverable update catch:
- Define PromptConfigurationError(ValueError) in prompt.py. Raised by
load_prompt, load_prompt_messages, and _render_messages for bad yaml,
missing keys, and invalid placeholders.
- _do_update_memory_sync_impl, update_memory's executor path, and
_process_queue all re-raise (PromptConfigurationError, FileNotFoundError,
OSError) before the generic except Exception, so a bad explicit prompt
is never silently returned as False.
- DeerMem.__init__ prompt validation now renders text templates with
dummy variables (.format(stale_facts="") etc.) so an unknown
placeholder in staleness_review.yaml, consolidation.yaml, or
fact_extraction.yaml is caught at construction.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(memory): drop re-raise guards, soften validation comment, exclude dormant fact_extraction
- Remove (PromptConfigurationError, FileNotFoundError, OSError) re-raise
guards from _do_update_memory_sync_impl, update_memory executor path,
and _process_queue. The existing except Exception: logger.exception(...)
already logs prompt-config errors at ERROR with full traceback; the
re-raise was killing the entire batch and only surfacing via stderr.
Per-agent override errors now log at ERROR per-item without aborting
co-tenant updates.
- Soften the construction validation comment to clarify it only covers
global templates. Per-agent overrides are validated lazily at first use
and logged at ERROR by the updater's exception handler.
- Drop fact_extraction from construction validation (dormant prompt with
no runtime caller; the shim + yaml remain for backward compat).
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
`_evict_if_needed` and `reset` dropped `_tool_name_history` (the windowed
deque) but left `_tool_name_counter` (the Counter that mirrors it) in place.
After a thread id was LRU-evicted and later reused, its frequency count
resumed from the stale value instead of zero, so the first fresh tool call
was force-stopped ("Tool X called N times") as if the evicted calls had
never rotated out. `reset()` had the same gap.
Drop the counter alongside the deque at all three sites (evict, per-thread
reset, full reset). The window deque and its mirror Counter now stay in sync.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(middleware): recover malformed tool-call ids in dangling repair
DanglingToolCallMiddleware normalizes malformed tool-call names (#4008) and
arguments (#4193) so strict OpenAI-compatible providers do not reject the next
request. The id is the third field of that same recovery contract and was left
alone.
A provider that emits an empty id -- or omits it -- parses into a well-formed
tool_calls entry, so it reaches the middleware through the normal path. The
empty id never enters the pairing set, so the orphan pass drops the call's
already-produced ToolMessage and the placeholder pass skips the call. The
request then goes out carrying an empty id and with the real tool result gone.
Normalize ids up front and re-point each already-paired ToolMessage at its
call's new id, so the existing pairing/orphan/placeholder logic no longer sees
a malformed id. Only the view that is actually read and serialized is
relabelled; a valid id is left byte-for-byte alone, since it is matched
verbatim against ToolMessage.tool_call_id.
* fix(middleware): scope malformed-id result pairing to its own turn
Malformed tool-call ids are all equally empty, so pairing recovered results by
the original id alone was a global FIFO over the whole transcript. An earlier
dangling call then consumed a later turn's result: the real result was served
to the wrong call while the call that actually ran got the interrupted
placeholder. An orphan result whose originating AIMessage was already gone
could likewise be adopted by a later malformed call, resurrecting it instead of
being dropped as the orphan pass intends.
Walk the messages once in document order so only the most recent AIMessage's
unanswered calls are claimable, which keeps a result answering the turn that
issued it, and rule out the wrong parallel sibling within a turn by tool name.
A result whose name matches no open call is left malformed for the existing
orphan pass to drop rather than repurposed as some other call's answer.
* fix(middleware): keep the shadowed raw view out of id recovery
* fix(middleware): only claim a malformed result when the pairing is forced
* docs(middleware): cite ToolNode's ordering guarantee for positional pairing
* Improve tool output preview synopsis
* Add JSON path anchors to tool output synopsis
* Fix JSON synopsis line anchors
* fix(synopsis): tighten detectors and fix CSV first-row join
Address review feedback from @willem-bd on PR #3377.
Detectors:
- _looks_yaml now requires >=3 key-shaped lines and refuses bare
uppercase-tag lines ('INFO: ...', 'ERROR: ...') that look like log
lines and would round-trip into a flat string dict via safe_load.
Previously a 200-line log file was classified as 'YAML object with
3 top-level keys' and lost every line, count, and middle signal.
- _try_yaml refuses payloads that safe_load collapses to a dict of
all strings (the shape tracebacks and log lines collapse into).
- _try_table applies the header-must-look-like-identifiers and
minimum-row-count guards only to TSV, since the same safeguards
would reject legitimate small CSVs. Refuses tab-indented bash
output, ls -l listings, and tree dumps.
Rendering:
- CSV first data row is now rendered as a key=value list joined by
' | ' (e.g. 'name=Ada | description="a fine, brilliant logician"
| score=98'). The previous delimiter.join(rows[1]) silently
re-split cells that contained the delimiter inside a quoted cell,
which made the synopsis report a 3-column table as 5 columns and
misled the model about column count and content.
Text summary:
- _summarize_text now omits the closing excerpt entirely when the
input is shorter than 2 * _TEXT_EXCERPT_CHARS, since the previous
opener/closer slices overlapped and duplicated text for short
inputs (build_tool_output_synopsis is reachable directly from
tests and other callers that pass small inputs).
Tests:
- Update test_table_preview_extracts_columns to assert the new
key=value list format.
* fix(synopsis): drop JSON path line/byte offset hints
The path-location hint was computed by string-searching for the
quoted key in the original content and reporting its byte offset and
line number. This anchors at the first textual occurrence of the
key string, which is wrong when the key also appears as a value
earlier in the document, or when the same key recurs at multiple
depths. With nested paths the anchor drifts further on every step
because the search cursor is advanced past each previous match.
Concrete cases:
content = '{"label": "items", "items": {"id": 1}}'
_json_path_location(content, ['items'])
-> ' (line 1, byte offset 10)' # the value, not the key
content = '{"data": {"info": 1, "data": {"info": 2}}}'
_json_path_location(content, ['data','data','info'])
-> ' (line 1, byte offset 30)' # the inner first 'info', not the second
The synopsis instructed the model to 'Start near the line hints
above when present', so a wrong anchor would send read_file into
the wrong region of the persisted .tool-results file.
Drop the hint entirely. The path itself ('$.data.items') is
already useful navigation; the agent uses read_file with start_line
based on its own judgement of where the relevant slice is.
Tests:
- Update test_json_preview_reports_nested_paths to assert no 'line '
or 'byte offset ' appears in the body before the Access section.
- Rename test_json_line_hints_use_original_content_offsets to
test_json_paths_are_emitted_without_line_hints and invert the
assertions to check the hints are absent.
* fix(synopsis): bound _scalar_examples recursion depth
Mirror the _JSON_STRUCTURE_DEPTH cap used by _json_container_paths
and _json_shape so that deeply nested JSON cannot trigger
RecursionError inside build_tool_output_synopsis.
In ToolOutputBudgetMiddleware.awrap_tool_call the synopsis is built
inside asyncio.to_thread(_patch_result, ...); a RecursionError
would surface as a tool-call failure and the user would lose the
entire output. 300-level nested JSON is well inside what an
attacker-controlled MCP tool, a JSON-RPC-over-JSON-RPC chain, or a
buggy serializer can produce.
* feat(synopsis): restore inline raw head/tail sample
The synopsis-only preview silently dropped the raw head/tail bytes
that preview_head_chars / preview_tail_chars used to inline. For
text/code/log outputs the agent lost first/last KB of the actual
content and had to issue a follow-up read_file round-trip to see
the trailing region (last paragraph of a fetched article, final
error line in a traceback, closing diagnostics of a bash run).
Restore an inline 'Raw sample (head + tail)' section in the preview.
The section is composed by slicing head_chars from the start and
tail_chars from the end of the content (with a '...' separator
between them, and the tail suppressed when it would overlap the
head). For binary-like output, the synopsis's own sample is reused
unchanged.
This makes preview_head_chars / preview_tail_chars operational
again for every kind except binary, which already had a sample
channel.
Tests:
- Rename test_json_preview_extracts_structure_instead_of_head_tail
to test_json_preview_includes_structure_and_raw_sample and assert
the raw sample section is present and the payload is reachable
in the head slice.
* test(synopsis): add regression tests for willem-bd review findings
Add 8 regression tests under TestToolOutputSynopsis, one per
finding in @willem-bd's review of PR #3377:
- test_review_5_log_lines_are_not_misclassified_as_yaml
Pins the YAML detector to refuse 'LEVEL: message' log lines.
- test_review_6_json_paths_are_emitted_without_byte_offset
Pins the removal of byte/line hint from JSON path descriptions.
- test_review_7_scalar_examples_respects_depth_cap
Pins that 500-deep nested JSON does not raise.
- test_review_8_csv_first_row_quoted_cells_round_trip
Pins the new key=value list format for CSV first-row rendering
and asserts that quoted cells with embedded delimiters survive.
- test_review_9_tsv_detector_rejects_tab_indented_bash
Pins that tab-indented bash output is not classified as TSV.
- test_review_10_preview_includes_raw_head_and_tail_sample
Pins the restored inline 'Raw sample (head + tail)' section.
- test_review_11_short_text_does_not_duplicate_excerpts
Pins that closer is suppressed for inputs shorter than
2 * _TEXT_EXCERPT_CHARS.
- test_review_12_preview_head_tail_chars_are_operational
Pins that head_chars / tail_chars are wired into the rendered
preview and not silently dropped.
Also removes the now-stale 'byte offsets are approximate anchors'
sentence from render_tool_output_preview's Access block; the
synopsis no longer emits byte/line hints, so the guidance to
'start near the line hints' was misleading.
* fix(synopsis): resolve lint errors on tool output budget tests
Local 'make lint' on feat/tool-output-synopsis-preview (after fast-forward
to current main) failed with three errors in tests added by PR #3377:
- E501: 307-char bash_out literal in test_review_9_tsv_detector_rejects_tab_indented_bash
- E741: ambiguous single-letter 'l' in test_review_11_short_text_does_not_duplicate_excerpts
- E741: same ambiguous 'l' on the closing assert
Replace the long literal with a join of per-row entries, rename the loop
variable from 'l' to 'ln', and run ruff format on the two touched files
to absorb the formatting drift introduced by the merge with main.
Verification:
- make lint -> All checks passed; 643 files already formatted
- pytest tests/test_tool_output_budget_middleware.py -> 110 passed
* fix: address willem-bd review findings (code/csv misclassification, text duplication, line snapping, dead constant, xml hardening, depth consistency)
- _CODE_HINTS: require stronger signals for use/fn (trailing ; or parenthesised)
- _try_table: apply _TABLE_MIN_DATA_ROWS gate to CSV too (not just TSV)
- config.example.yaml: correct misleading comment about preview_head/tail_chars
- _summarize_text: skip opener/closer excerpts when raw sample will be appended
- _build_raw_sample: snap to line boundaries for clean truncation
- Remove dead constant _TABLE_FIRST_ROW_CHARS
- Prefer defusedxml for XML parsing (billion-laughs protection), fallback to stdlib
- Replace _json_shape magic number 2 with named _JSON_SHAPE_MAX_DEPTH constant
- Update tests to match new CSV gate (>=5 rows) and line-snapped sample counts
* style: ruff format fix for tool_output_synopsis.py and test_tool_output_budget_middleware.py
* fix(tool-output): address 4 review comments - DoS hardening + size cap
1. XML entity-expansion DoS: skip _try_xml when defusedxml is not
available (SafeET is None), falling through to text + raw sample.
(cid=3587721336)
2. YAML alias-bomb DoS: refuse to parse YAML content > 500 KB.
(cid=3587721340)
3. Unbounded content parse: add _MAX_SYNOPSIS_INPUT_BYTES=5MB cap;
oversized output falls back to raw head/tail sample instead of full
parse. (cid=3587721346)
4. Scalar examples surface mid-document values: add docstring note
that the synopsis is a structural summary, not a confidentiality
filter. (cid=3587721353)
* fix(tool-output): ruff format the synopsis string to one line
---------
Co-authored-by: qinchenghan <qinchenghan@huawei.com>
* feat(context): record effective memory identity per run
* fix(context): address memory identity review feedback
---------
Co-authored-by: Willem Jiang <willem.jiang@gmail.com>
Re-ports this feature onto the pluggable-memory backend introduced in #4122
(the original #4143 was force-pushed clean by accident and auto-closed). The
#4122 refactor moved the staleness logic into the self-contained DeerMem
backend (backends/deermem/deermem/core/) and reverted it to the pre-feature
global-threshold version, so the per-fact lifetime work is re-applied here
against the new module layout + DI (MemoryUpdater is now (config, storage,
llm)-injected; config lives on DeerMemConfig, not host MemoryConfig).
**expected_valid_days (creation)**
The LLM assigns a per-fact review window when storing each new fact. The
prompt exposes five tiers (<=14 d transient -> >365 d very stable). The value
is capped at write time by staleness_age_days x staleness_max_lifetime_multiplier
(default 20.0 -> 1800 d ~= 5 years; range 1.0-100.0) so the model cannot set
an initial lifetime so long the fact is never re-evaluated. The default 20.0
makes the "> 365 d very stable" tier achievable out of the box (3.0 silently
clamped it to 270 d).
**staleFactsToExtend (review)**
During staleness review the LLM can emit extension entries for kept facts
whose window seems miscalibrated. new_evd = min(days_since_created +
extend_by_days, staleness_max_extension_days). Extensions use an absolute
ceiling (default 3650 d ~= 10 years; range 90-36500) rather than the creation
multiplier - they are deliberate review decisions that must be able to advance
the window beyond the initial cap, but the absolute bound prevents timedelta
overflow (a model-supplied extend_by_days of 10**9 previously crashed every
later candidate-selection pass with OverflowError) and LLM misfire.
**Invariant correctness**
- Read-time cap removed from _effective_fact_staleness_age; cap is write-time
only so extensions actually advance the review window.
- proposed_remove_ids hoisted out of the removals sub-block and used to exclude
from extension, so a cap-surviving proposed-removal fact is never extended.
- extend_by coerced to int before the > 0 guard (a fractional 0.9 would pass
the float check then int() to 0, silently writing a zero-delta extension).
- days_since uses total_seconds() // 86400 (not .days truncation).
- staleness-section html.escape uses quote=False to match the prompt.py
convention; only <, >, & break element-text structure.
**Tests**
test_memory_staleness_review.py was module-level skipped by #4122 ("full
unit-test migration is a follow-up"). This PR performs that migration: DI
construction via (DeerMemConfig, _FakeStorage), _build_staleness_section back
to the (candidates, config) signature, plus new coverage for per-fact
selection, EXTEND with the absolute cap, the overflow next-cycle regression,
the proposed-removal-not-extendable case, fractional extend_by skipping, and
the creation-time cap. 67 tests, all green.
config.example.yaml ships backend_config.model: as a bare key whose children
are all comments, which YAML parses to None (make config-upgrade then writes
an explicit model: null). DeerMemConfig.model is a non-Optional field with a
default, so from_backend_config(**{"model": None}) raised a ValidationError
and every run failed with "Input should be a valid dictionary or instance of
DeerMemModelConfig". Drop None entries in from_backend_config so YAML null /
empty keys fall back to field defaults, matching the documented "empty =
host default LLM" semantics. Upstream bug (#4122 schema); regression-pinned
in test_deermem_self_contained.py.
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: read run stop_reason from runtime context
* fix: address review feedback for #4188 stop_reason integration
- migration 0005: use safe_add_column for consistency and drift detection
- worker: clear runtime.context stop_reason at start of each _stream_once
turn so a clean continuation doesn't inherit a prior cap reason
- tests: replace circular unit test with real middleware integration
tests that exercise LoopDetectionMiddleware._apply and
TokenBudgetMiddleware._apply through the worker, proving the full
middleware → runtime.context → persist pipeline
* fix(test): resume conftest
* fix: stamp stop_reason in all guard middlewares, fix clearing semantics
* fix(memory): bounded shutdown flush via MemoryManager.shutdown_flush
Re-applies the memory-queue shutdown drain on top of the pluggable
MemoryManager abstraction (#4122): the old top-level MemoryUpdateQueue
singleton is gone, so the drain is now a backend contract instead of
host code reaching into the queue.
- MemoryManager ABC: shutdown_flush(timeout) -> bool. Every backend
implements a bounded graceful-shutdown drain.
- DeerMem: queue.flush_sync (daemon-thread + Event.wait hard timeout
for the uninterruptible sync LLM call; joins an in-flight worker
first so contexts a debounce Timer already pulled out are not lost on
exit; skips inter-item sleep on the drain path; per-item
succeeded/failed count), exposed via shutdown_flush.
- noop: shutdown_flush is a clean no-op success.
- Gateway lifespan: call get_memory_manager().shutdown_flush(timeout)
after channels/scheduler stop, via asyncio.to_thread, try/except
bounded. No host-level pending/processing guard -- the backend
short-circuits on an idle buffer, so the host cannot "forget" the
in-flight case (structurally eliminates the guard race flagged on the
prior revision).
- shutdown_flush_timeout_seconds added to the shared MemoryConfig
(host-owned lifecycle budget, default 30, 1-300) + exposed on
MemoryConfigResponse and the embedded client; config_version 25 -> 26.
Tests: queue flush_sync (7), lifespan drain incl. False-branch caplog
assertion + disabled gate (3), ABC contract noop/deermem (3).
* fix(chart): gateway grace period so memory drain is not SIGKILLed
K8s defaults terminationGracePeriodSeconds to 30s, shorter than the
Gateway's graceful-shutdown work (channel stop ~5s + memory queue drain
default 30s). Without an explicit grace period, K8s SIGKILLs the memory
drain mid-flight and silently re-introduces the loss shutdown_flush is
fixing (flagged on the prior revision).
- gateway pod: terminationGracePeriodSeconds (default 45, configurable).
- gateway container: preStop sleep (default 5, 0 disables) so the
Service/ingress deregisters the pod before SIGTERM begins the drain.
- values.yaml + README: both configurable; README documents that the
grace period must track memory.shutdown_flush_timeout_seconds.
* docs(memory): document shutdown_flush_timeout_seconds + lifespan drain
Add the host-shared field to the memory config list and Config Schema
summary in backend/AGENTS.md, noting the lifespan drain and the K8s
grace-period relationship.
* fix(chart): bump embedded config_version to 26
The chart's embedded `config:` block (values.yaml + README example) still
had config_version: 25 after commit f3ca8e9f raised config.example.yaml to
26, failing the validate-chart config_version drift check. Bump both to 26.
get_skills_prompt_section() without app_config resolved get_app_config()
only to read container_path, then let the enabled-skills load fall back
to the warm cache. On a cold start the cache is empty and the first call
returns an empty skills list while the synchronously-loaded disabled
section is populated, so manually assembled agents (create_deerflow_agent
style integrations) got a prompt with no enabled skills.
Rebind the resolved config so the storage and enabled-skills loads below
use it too; when no config is resolvable the cache-only fallback is
unchanged. Adds a cold-cache regression test.
Fixes#4144
Co-authored-by: fancyboi999 <fancyboi999@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(memory): pluggable + self-contained memory system (MemoryManager plan phases 1 & 2)
Phase 1 — Pluggable (steps 0-10):
- ABC MemoryManager (9 methods) + singleton factory + drop-in backend discovery
- DeerMem default backend with core/ (storage/queue/updater/prompt/message_processing)
- NoopMemoryManager backend (proves pluggability)
- All call sites (middleware/hook/prompt/gateway/client/app) routed through manager
- hasattr capability probing for DeerMem-internal methods (no hard imports)
- MemoryConfig gains manager_class field; shared vs DeerMem-private annotated
Phase 2 — Self-contained DeerMem (steps 11-18):
- backend_config passthrough + DeerMemConfig (all DeerMem-private fields moved off MemoryConfig)
- DI: DeerMem owns storage/queue/updater/llm as instance attributes (no global singletons)
- Storage independence: core/paths.py with own root (~/.deermem or ),
factory auto-injects deer-flow's runtime_home() as absolute base_dir (zero-config)
- LLM independence: core/llm.py via langchain init_chat_model (no create_chat_model)
- Trace independence: optional tracing_callback replaces inject_langfuse_metadata/request_trace_context
- Message processing independence: hide_from_ui default-skip + optional should_keep_hidden_message hook
- Internal imports → relative (only deer_mem.py ABC import is host-relative)
- Carrier (deer_mem.py adapter) / portable (deermem/ config+core) split
- New tests: test_deermem_self_contained + test_memory_manager_pluggable; all memory tests migrated
- Other-agent demo: samples/other_agent_demo/ + automated portability test
- config.example.yaml memory section updated to phase-2 schema
* feat(memory): port consolidation + staleness fix into self-contained DeerMem; phase-2 host hooks
Port upstream #3996 (memory consolidation) and #3993 (staleness KeyError fix)
from origin/MemoryManager into the pluggable, self-contained DeerMem structure
(backends/deermem/deermem/), adapted to the DI MemoryUpdater (config injected,
not get_memory_config globals):
- DeerMemConfig: add consolidation_enabled (opt-in, default false) /
consolidation_min_facts / consolidation_max_groups_per_cycle /
consolidation_max_sources
- prompt.py: factsToConsolidate JSON field + {consolidation_section} placeholder
+ CONSOLIDATION_PROMPT constant
- updater.py: _coerce_source_confidence / _select_consolidation_candidates /
_build_consolidation_section module helpers (matching the existing
_select_stale_candidates style); consolidation normalization in
_normalize_memory_update_data; consolidation apply in _apply_updates (after
max_facts trim, with apply-time guardrails mirroring staleness); staleness
KeyError fix (f["id"] -> f.get("id") is not None) applied to both the
staleness guardrail and the consolidation allowed_source_ids comprehension
- config.example.yaml: consolidation section under memory.backend_config
- tests/test_memory_consolidation.py: 40 DI-adapted tests (running, not skipped)
incl. the staleness KeyError regression
Also includes in-flight phase-2 host-integration work: storage_path semantics
(any absolute/relative value = root dir) and host-default tracing_callback /
should_keep_hidden_message hooks injected into backend_config by the factory.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(memory): add noop backend template and backends guide
- backends/noop/: complete drop-in template (config.py with zero deer-flow
imports, noop_manager.py with a 6-step new-backend walkthrough in its
docstring, commented optional fact-CRUD capabilities).
- backends/README.md: which files to touch when adding/swapping a backend,
the 5-item backend contract, and common pitfalls.
- manager.py: generalize backend examples in comments (drop mem0-specific
references).
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(frontend): guard formatTimeAgo against invalid timestamps
Return a neutral placeholder when the input date is invalid (e.g. an empty lastUpdated from a backend with no memories) instead of throwing 'Invalid time value' from date-fns.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(memory): wire tool-driven memory mode through the MemoryManager ABC
tools.py (memory_search/add/update/delete) now calls get_memory_manager()
instead of the removed host memory module, so tool mode (memory.mode: tool)
works for any backend. DeerMem.search is implemented (case-insensitive
substring match, ranked by confidence) as a stand-in for the planned
semantic retrieval; noop.search returns [] (unchanged). Fact-CRUD tools
use getattr+callable probing -- backends lacking those ops (noop) get a
clear JSON error instead of crashing.
Tests: test_memory_tools rewired to mock the manager (handler tests) +
TestModeGating retained; test_memory_search now covers DeerMem.search;
pluggable stubs test updated (search no longer a stub).
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: resolve lint errors (import sorting, type annotation quotes, E402 in skipped tests)
* docs: restore explanatory comments in config.example.yaml memory section
* fix(security): port html-escape memory facts fix (#4097) to vendored DeerMem prompt.py
* fix(memory): address review + port dropped upstream memory fixes
Review blockers (vendored DeerMem):
- #4044 restore _escape_memory_for_prompt (current_memory blob in
MEMORY_UPDATE_PROMPT) - prevents </current_memory> breakout
- #4028 html.escape staleness-section cat/content in _build_staleness_section
- #4119 add _escape_summary for injection-path summaries (Work/Personal/
Current Focus/Recent/Earlier/Background)
- default-model silent no-op: factory injects host default chat model via a
new host_llm slot (create_chat_model(name=None)); DeerMem prefers host_llm
over build_llm(model). Zero-config extraction works out of the box again
- MemoryConfigResponse: fix stale docstring (backend-agnostic shape; DeerMem
knobs live under backend_config, not top-level - restoring flat would
re-couple the API to DeerMem). Frontend audited: does not read /memory/config
- _host_default_tracing_callback: restore langfuse assistant_id/environment
- search: push category onto the ABC signature; DeerMem filters BEFORE the
top_k slice (was filtered client-side after slicing -> starved results)
- _do_update_memory_sync: split into wrapper+impl; bind trace_id into the
request-trace ContextVar on the Timer/executor worker via a new
trace_context_manager host hook (None trace_id left unbound - no fabrication)
- client.py fact-CRUD now passes user_id (was writing to the global bucket
while get_memory reads per-user)
- _resolve_manager_class: fail-fast (raise ValueError) on an unresolved
explicit manager_class instead of silently falling back to DeerMem (memory is
persistent state - a wrong store is a silent data-integrity footgun)
Upstream memory fixes dropped by the host->vendored rename conflict, re-ported
to backends/deermem/deermem/core/ (+ deer_mem.py):
- #4073 queue busy-timer-spin -> _reprocess_pending flag (core/queue.py)
- #4074 null source.confidence in staleness -> _coerce_source_confidence
(core/updater.py: _build_staleness_section + _apply_updates stale sort)
- #4075 factsToRemove is optional (drop from _REQUIRED_MEMORY_UPDATE_TOP_LEVEL_KEYS)
- #4076 null confidence in search ranking -> _coerce_source_confidence
(deer_mem.py DeerMem.search)
host_llm + trace_context_manager are host-injected via backend_config (factory
in manager.py), keeping backends/deermem/ at exactly one `from deerflow` line
(the ABC contract) - portability test preserved.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: resolve lint errors (F541 f-string without placeholders, E501 line too long)
* fix(memory): restore hide_from_ui clarification preservation, expose mode
Two memory-system fixes (F541/E501 lint was already fixed on this branch):
- filter_messages_for_memory: restore default preservation of well-formed
human_input_response clarification answers (v2 regression). The
self-containment refactor made the bare function skip ALL hide_from_ui when
no hook was passed, but upstream preserves well-formed clarification
responses by default (test_hide_from_ui_human_input_response_is_preserved).
Inline a host-agnostic _is_human_clarification_response mirror of
read_human_input_response as the default keep-decision; the host-injected
should_keep_hidden_message hook still overrides (production path unchanged).
Portable package stays zero `from deerflow`.
- /memory/config: expose `mode` (middleware|tool) in MemoryConfigResponse +
the config/status endpoints + client.get_memory_config. mode is a host-
shared, behavior-determining field missing from the response projection.
Sync tests (mock .mode; e2e assert mode present).
- Align manager_class field docstring with fail-fast behavior.
Tests: filter/self-contained/portability (35) + memory-config (4) pass;
ruff clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(memory): resolve ruff format failures in memory module + tests
`make lint` runs `ruff format --check` in addition to `ruff check`; 8 memory
files had pending format changes -- 7 pre-existing (deer_mem, updater, tools,
test_memory_queue/router/search/tools) + message_processing from the
hide_from_ui fix. Apply `ruff format`: whitespace/wrapping only, no logic
change. 109 memory tests pass; ruff check + format --check both clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(memory): address PR review - legacy field migration, fact_id contract, path/docs
Address willem-bd's review on PR head bc8bf0d4 (risk:high, persistent state):
- config: auto-migrate pre-abstraction top-level memory.* DeerMem fields
(storage_path, max_facts, debounce_seconds, model_name, token_counting,
staleness_*, consolidation_*) into backend_config on load + warn, so an
upgrade does NOT silently revert customized settings (was: silent
extra='ignore' drop). model_name -> backend_config.model.model. Unknown
top-level keys warned.
- factory: resolve a relative backend_config.storage_path against runtime_home()
(base_dir-relative, CWD-independent) to preserve pre-abstraction semantics;
paths.py stays portable (no runtime_home import).
- tools: memory_add uses the fact_id returned directly by create_fact instead of
re-deriving it via content-key matching (coupled the tool to the backend's
content normalization; could misreport a storage cap). create_fact now returns
(memory_data, fact_id); gateway/client/tool updated. Fix terse
{"error":"content"} -> {"error":"empty content"}.
- app.py: update stale token_counting=="char" warm-up comment to point at
manager.warm (DeerMem.warm re-checks char and returns early).
- router: comment explaining reload_memory silent fallback vs fact 501 asymmetry
(read-only degrade vs write fail-loud).
- CHANGELOG: document breaking changes (/memory/config + client.get_memory_config
shape flat->backend_config; custom storage_class path moved + __init__ must
accept config) and the legacy-field auto-migration.
- tests: add regression test pinning the per-user memory path
({storage_path}/users/{safe_user_id}/memory.json == host make_safe_user_id)
across the abstraction; update create_fact mocks for (memory_data, fact_id).
Tests: 273 passed (memory suite); ruff check + format clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(memory): address PR review - storage_path, max_facts, tracing, parsing
Six review findings (willem-bd), each verified against upstream:
- storage_path semantics (file -> root dir): migration drops file-style
(.json) legacy values with a warning; factory raises if storage_path
resolves to an existing file (avoid silent NotADirectoryError write
failure). CHANGELOG + config.example.yaml comment updated.
- create_memory_fact enforces max_facts again (via _trim_facts_to_max) and
returns (memory, None) when the cap evicts the new fact; memory_add tool
reports "not stored", client raises ValueError, POST /memory/facts -> 409.
- max_facts trim uses _coerce_source_confidence (was raw f.get("confidence",
0) -> TypeError on non-float imported/legacy confidence, swallowed as
silent update failure).
- memory-tracing assistant_id restored to "memory_agent" (was "lead-agent"
copy-paste; matches upstream + DeerMem run_name).
- _is_human_clarification_response cross-checked against
read_human_input_response (drift guard test).
- empty-string legacy values skipped silently in migration (narrow fix, not
broad "if not value" which would skip explicit bool False).
8 new regression tests. make lint + 406 memory tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(memory): address internal review - storage fail-fast, build_llm degrade, config warn, noop template
Addresses 4 findings from the PR #4122 internal supplemental review
(parallel to willem-bd's review, no overlap):
- create_storage fail-fast: a misspelled/unimportable storage_class now
raises ValueError instead of silently falling back to FileMemoryStorage.
Memory is persistent state, so a wrong store is a data-integrity footgun;
mirrors the existing manager_class resolution policy. (storage.py)
- noop template create_fact signature: the commented template used
keyword-only `content` and returned a bare dict, while DeerMem's actual
create_fact takes positional `content` and returns tuple[dict, str|None]
(the memory_add tool passes content positionally; gateway/client/tools all
tuple-unpack). A backend copied from the template would 500 on fact-CRUD.
Template fixed; delete_fact/update_fact templates left (callers compatible).
(noop_manager.py)
- build_llm graceful degrade: wrap init_chat_model in try/except, degrade to
None + WARNING on failure (mirroring _host_default_llm) so a misconfigured
explicit model does not crash app startup -- non-LLM memory ops still work
and an update raises at runtime with the error logged. (llm.py)
- from_backend_config unknown-key warning: log a WARNING for unknown
backend_config keys (mirrors the host layer's load_memory_config_from_dict)
so a typo like `storage_pat` does not silently fall back to the default and
write memory to an unintended location. (config.py)
Tests: rewrote 3 create_storage fallback tests to expect ValueError; added 4
tests (build_llm zero-config/degrade, from_backend_config warn/silent).
make lint green; full memory suite passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: lllyfff <122260771+lllyfff@users.noreply.github.com>
format_conversation_for_update embeds raw user turns into the <conversation>
slot of MEMORY_UPDATE_PROMPT. This is the most attacker-influenced input in the
prompt, and it was unescaped: a message containing
"</conversation><current_memory>..." closes the conversation block and forges a
<current_memory> authority section for the extraction LLM, which can be steered
into persisting an arbitrary high-confidence fact — and that fact is later
injected into the lead-agent system prompt's <memory> block, which the prompt
declares trusted.
This is the last unguarded sibling of a rule the repo has established repeatedly.
#4044/#4060 html-escaped the current_memory slot of this exact template; #4097
escaped the <memory> injection renderer. In updater.py the same .format() call
escapes current_memory and leaves conversation raw. The memory updater sees raw
text because InputSanitizationMiddleware only rewrites the ModelRequest and never
mutates state, while MemoryMiddleware queues the raw state messages.
Escape content with html.escape(quote=False), mirroring _escape_summary /
_format_fact_line — after truncation so a trailing "..." cannot split an entity,
on both human and assistant turns. Render-time only: no stored value is mutated,
so the apply path is unaffected. The conversation function already strips
<uploaded_files> here, so tag hygiene in this renderer is established.
Scope is the memory updater. The summarizer's <new_messages> / <existing_summary>
blocks are the same rule unguarded, but their output is quarantined as untrusted
durable context rather than promoted to system authority; that hardening will be
a separate change.
* fix(agents): stop persisting base64 image data in checkpoint state (#4138)
The viewed_images state field stored full base64-encoded image data,
which was duplicated across every subsequent checkpoint (O(n * steps)
growth). A single 1MB image viewed early in a conversation would be
re-stored in every checkpoint for the rest of the session.
Changes:
- ViewedImageData: replace base64 field with lightweight metadata
(mime_type, size, actual_path)
- view_image_tool: store only metadata in state, no base64 encoding
- ViewImageMiddleware: read image files from disk on-demand in
before_model and encode base64 temporarily for the model call
- Update all tests to use the new metadata-only format
This is the first step of #4138. The base64 data is no longer in
persistent state, but the injected HumanMessage (with base64 content)
still appears in the checkpoint for the step where it was injected.
Checkpoint retention policies and large tool result dedup are separate
follow-up items.
* fix(agents): address review feedback on #4140
- view_image_tool: remove stale 'convert to base64' comment, replace with
'validate contents'; drop redundant image_size reassignment and add a
TOCTOU guard that rejects files changed between stat() and read().
- view_image_middleware: extract _read_image_as_data_url helper that
re-checks size against the recorded value AND the absolute cap
(_MAX_IMAGE_BYTES). Document the trust assumption for actual_path
(server-set, not client-settable) in the helper docstring.
- view_image_middleware: abefore_model now runs the blocking read+encode
via asyncio.to_thread to avoid stalling the event loop on up to 20MB
images.
- tests: add coverage for OSError during read, file-changed-since-view
(TOCTOU), and size-exceeds-cap branches.
* fix(subagents): prohibit task tool in general-purpose system prompt (#4159)
The general-purpose subagent correctly lists `task` in disallowed_tools
to prevent recursive nesting. However, the system prompt did not
explicitly tell the LLM that `task` is unavailable. When the subagent
sees the parent agent use `task`, it infers the tool is available and
attempts to call it, triggering a LangGraph tool validation error.
Add an explicit <tool_restrictions> block to the system prompt stating
that `task` is NOT available and the subagent must NEVER attempt to
call it. This prevents the LLM from attempting the call in the first
place, rather than relying on runtime rejection.
Add a regression test verifying the prompt contains the prohibition.
* fix(security): register tool_restrictions in input sanitization denylist
PR #4161 added <tool_restrictions> to general_purpose.py subagent prompt
but did not register it in _BLOCKED_TAG_NAMES. The anti-drift test
test_denylist_covers_framework_authority_blocks caught this: forging
<tool_restrictions> in untrusted input could trick the model into
believing it has (or lacks) tool restrictions it does not.
Add 'tool_restrictions' to _BLOCKED_TAG_NAMES alongside the other
subagent authority blocks (file_editing_workflow / guidelines /
output_format / working_directory).
* fix(middleware): drop orphan ToolMessages with no matching AIMessage tool_call
The rebuild loop only skipped ToolMessages whose tool_call_id matched a
known AIMessage tool_call (to be re-emitted after it). An orphan ToolMessage
whose tool_call_id has no matching AIMessage tool_calls fell through and was
kept, leaving a dangling tool result that strict providers reject. Drop
orphan ToolMessages as well, logging at debug.
* fix(dangling): demote orphan-drop logs, add tool_call_id=None test
- Update module/class docstrings to mention orphan ToolMessage handling
- Accumulate orphan drop_count and emit a single logger.warning
instead of per-message logger.debug calls
- Simplify early-return logic: return None only when no patching
AND no orphans were dropped
- Add test_tool_call_id_none_orphan_is_dropped — a ToolMessage
with tool_call_id=None is always an orphan and must be dropped
Closes#4080
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): use model_construct for None tool_call_id test to bypass pydantic validation
ToolMessage content='ghost' tool_call_id=None fails pydantic validation at
construction. Use model_construct to simulate a corrupt/edge-case payload
without tripping the string-only guard.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(loop-detection): decay per-tool frequency counter with a windowed deque
The Layer 2 per-tool-type frequency guard in _track_and_check used a
monotonic integer counter (freq[name] += 1) that never decayed or reset,
so a long-running thread could trip the frequency warn/hard-stop even when
calls were spread out over the whole run. Replace it with a deque of recent
tool names trimmed to window_size, matching the windowed hash layer, and
count occurrences within the window. Update _evict_if_needed and reset() to
manage the new _tool_name_history storage.
* address review: size Layer-2 freq window to the hard limit, not window_size
The windowed freq_count is bounded by the deque length; reusing Layer-1's
window_size (default 20) capped it below tool_freq_warn (30) / hard (50),
making the Layer-2 guard dead code under the shipped default config. Size
a dedicated _tool_freq_window = max(window_size, tool_freq_hard_limit,
override hard limits) so a tight burst reaches the limit while spread-out
calls still decay. Per @willem-bd review on #4072.
Adds default-config regression tests: freq window >= hard limit, override
coverage, and a tight-burst-with-distinct-args hard-stop under real defaults.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(#4072): docstrings describe windowed semantics; defaultdict+Counter for O(1)
Addresses willem-bds three inline nits:
1. Docstrings for tool_freq_warn/tool_freq_hard_limit now explain the
sliding-window semantics and reference _tool_freq_window sizing.
2. Hot-path deque() allocation avoided: _tool_name_history uses
defaultdict(deque) instead of dict.setdefault(thread_id, deque()).
3. O(window) sum() scan replaced with mirrored collections.Counter
(incremented on append, decremented on popleft) for O(1) freq_count.
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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(security): block forged framework tags in the input guardrail
InputSanitizationMiddleware's _BLOCKED_TAG_NAMES neutralizes forged
framework tags in untrusted input, but missed soul, thinking_style, and
critical_reminders -- which the lead-agent system prompt's System-Context
Confidentiality section names as internal framework data -- and the
underscore spelling system_reminder emitted by the todo/terminal
middlewares (only the hyphen spelling was blocked). A user, or an
attacker-controlled web_fetch/web_search page via the shared
neutralize_untrusted_tags primitive, could forge these blocks. Add them.
* fix(security): cover framework authority blocks as a class, not a subset
The confidentiality section declares every framework structured tag trusted
("and all other structured tags"), so the denylist must cover the authority
blocks as a class. Add the live blocks still passing both sanitization paths
(clarification_system, self_update, response_style, citations, skill_index,
available_skills, disabled_skills, memory_tool_system, durable_context_data,
slash_skill_activation), and pin the set against drift with a test that scans
the framework source and fails when a new block is not blocked.
* fix(security): scan the whole harness for framework blocks, fail closed
The drift guard added in the previous revision scanned a hand-listed set of
source files. That is the same forgot-to-update-a-list root cause the guard was
meant to eliminate, one level up, and it failed exactly that way: tool_search.py
was not in the list, so <mcp_routing_hints> and <available-deferred-tools> —
both rendered into the lead-agent system prompt via the {deferred_tools_section}
/ {mcp_routing_hints_section} placeholders — passed both sanitization paths
unneutralized.
Replace the file list with a repo-wide scan plus an exemption set that states a
reason per tag. The point is the failure direction, not the breadth: a new
framework block anywhere in the harness now turns CI red until it is either
blocked or exempted on the record, where before a block emitted from an unlisted
file was silently unguarded.
The scan reads raw source rather than AST string literals on purpose: an
attributed block built as an f-string splits its '>' into a separate literal
chunk, so an AST-on-literals scan misses it (verified against
<consolidation_candidates>). Raw source has one comment false positive, exempted.
Exempted with reasons: leaf/wrapper elements; the memory-updater and summarizer
prompts, which are built from checkpointed state rather than the ModelRequest
this middleware rewrites, so blocking them here would be false coverage, not
protection; and the MindIE provider wire format, parsed out of model output.
The scan surfaced five further live authority blocks beyond the two reported.
Subagents reuse _build_runtime_middlewares and therefore share this denylist, so
their system-prompt blocks are in the same class: file_editing_workflow,
guidelines, output_format, working_directory. goal_continuation is a
framework-authored hidden HumanMessage injected into the lead agent.
Also loosen the scanner regex to match the tolerance of _BLOCKED_TAG_PATTERN so
an attributed block cannot hide from the guard.
* fix(runtime): persist original human input outside model sanitization
* refactor(history): load thread messages by global event sequence
* fix(frontend): make summarization rescue a transient history bridge
* fix(frontend): old message not append tail
1. add identity anchor
2. add bridgeOrder
* fix(frontend): lint error fix
* fix: address review feedback and harden pagination coverage
- defer transient history ref writes until after render commit
- cover large middleware-only history scans
- verify infinite-query refetch recalculates page cursors
- document AI event types and anchor-weaving differences
* fix: harden message pagination and enrichment
- append unmatched live tails after canonical history
- warn and stop when pagination has_more lacks a cursor
- deep-copy restored UI messages to isolate model-facing content
- log invalid event sequence and non-advancing cursor errors
- pass user_id explicitly through event-store history queries
- cover middleware-only AI runs across memory, JSONL, and DB stores
* fix: address pagination review feedback
* fix(frontend): checkpoint has unknow redener content, optimize the anchor policy
* fix(frontend): unit test issue missed previously, remove the TanStack cache trimming
* fix(gateway): harden message history queries and provenance
- reject externally forged original_user_content metadata
- validate provenance metadata in upload and sanitization middleware
- make run lookups fail closed by default
- batch feedback queries by run ID
- align memory message filtering with persistent stores
A custom subagent's description is agent-editable (persisted by setup_agent /
update_agent) and is rendered into the <subagent_system> block of the lead-agent
system prompt via the available-subagents listing. It was interpolated raw, so a
first line like "</subagent_system><system-reminder>..." could close the block
and forge a framework-reserved tag inside the system-role prompt.
Escape it with html.escape at the render site, matching the sibling fixes for
<soul> (#4137), memory facts (#4097), skill metadata (#4128), and remote content
(#4099/#4002). Built-in descriptions are trusted constants and stay untouched.
Adds a red/green regression test mirroring test_soul_prompt_injection.py.
SOUL.md is agent-editable (setup_agent / update_agent persist it) and
get_agent_soul renders it into the <soul> block of the lead-agent system
prompt without escaping. A crafted personality such as
"</soul></system-reminder>\n\nSYSTEM: ..." can close the block and relocate
the text after it out of the trust zone the system prompt declares — the same
break-out the skill/memory/tool-result escaping in #4097/#4119/#4128/#4099
already closes at their render sites. <soul> is the remaining one, and it lands
in the highest-trust system-role block.
Escape with html.escape(quote=False) (element-text position, never an
attribute). Adds a regression test that fails on main.
Signed-off-by: Yufeng He <40085740+he-yufeng@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix subagent total delegation cap
* fix embedded subagent run cap context
* fix subagent cap config consistency
* fix resumed subagent run cap boundary
* fix legacy resume subagent boundary
* address subagent cap review feedback
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Co-authored-by: Willem Jiang <willem.jiang@gmail.com>
* fix(skills): activate a slash skill once per run, not per model call
SkillActivationMiddleware injects the activation reminder for a slash
command via request.override(messages=...), which LangChain's create_agent
uses for a single model call and never writes back to graph state. The
dedup guard scans request.messages for a prior reminder, but model_node
rebuilds request.messages fresh from persisted state on every tool-loop
step, so the reminder is never present on the 2nd..Nth model call of a
turn. Every model call therefore re-parsed the command, re-read SKILL.md
from disk, re-injected the multi-KB body, and re-recorded an "activate"
audit event, despite the code intending a single activation per run
(#3861 semantics: one activation call, many follow-up model calls).
Key the dedup off the run context instead, which LangGraph threads
through every model-node call of a run (the same durable signal the
request-scoped secret source already uses). The activation call records
the slash message's identity in context; later calls for the same message
skip re-activation. A new user slash message keys differently and still
activates. Secret binding is unaffected: it already re-resolves from the
persisted slash source on every call.
Adds regression tests that rebuild the real multi-call turn state and
assert a single activation across the tool loop, plus a test proving a
new slash command still activates.
* fix(skills): address review nits on run-scoped activation dedup
- Extract _already_activated(run_context, run_key) so the dedup check
mirrors the existing _has_existing_activation_for_target sibling
instead of an inline dense conditional.
- Compute _activation_run_key() once in _find_activation_target and
thread it through _prepare_model_request instead of recomputing it
at the write site, making the "same key for check and write"
invariant explicit in the code rather than implicit.
- Document why the run-context write is an overwrite rather than an
append/set: only the latest real user message is ever considered an
activation target, so there is nothing earlier in the run worth
preserving.
- Add a regression test locking in the degraded-path contract: when
runtime.context is None, the middleware still activates per-call
instead of crashing or wrongly no-op'ing.
* fix(skills): escape untrusted skill metadata before it enters the model prompt
Skill name/description/allowed-tools come from the frontmatter of a
user-installable .skill archive (POST /api/skills/install or a drop into
skills/custom/); the parser only strips them. The slash-activation and
durable-context siblings already html.escape these exact fields before
rendering them into a model-visible block -- but five other render sites emit
them raw. The sharpest is the default path, <available_skills> in the system
prompt (skills.deferred_discovery: false): a community skill whose description
closes the block can forge a framework-trusted <system-reminder> into the
lead-agent system prompt. Driven through the real apply_prompt_template(), the
forged tag reaches the system prompt raw on main and is neutralized here.
Escape at every render site that emits untrusted skill metadata/content:
- <available_skills> (name/description/location) and <disabled_skills> (name)
in lead_agent/prompt.py;
- describe_skill output (name/description/allowed-tools/location) and
<skill_index> (name) in skills/describe.py;
- the subagent <skill name=...> attribute plus the raw SKILL.md body in
subagents/executor.py::_load_skill_messages -- its direct sibling
skill_activation escapes both, this escaped neither.
quote=False in element-text positions (matching skill_context and the #4097
correction), quote=True in the one attribute position (matching
skill_activation). category is a controlled enum and is left as-is; escaping is
render-time only, so stored skills are unchanged and re-rendering never
double-escapes.
* fix(skills): escape skill name in the slash-activation prose line
The slash-activation reminder emitted `activation.skill_name` raw in its
prose line while escaping the same value in the adjacent
<skill name="..."> attribute. skill_name is grammar-gated to [a-z0-9-] by
resolve_slash_skill before it reaches the renderer, so this is a
defense-in-depth / consistency fix rather than a reachable injection: the
two positions can never drift if a future caller builds an activation from
an unconstrained name. Reuse the already-computed escaped_skill_name.
* fix(memory): coerce null confidence when ranking stale facts
_build_staleness_section and the per-cycle removal cap in _apply_updates
used fact.get("confidence", 0.0/0), which only defaults when the key is
absent. A fact whose confidence is explicitly null (or otherwise malformed)
returned None, breaking the numeric sort/format. Use
_coerce_source_confidence, which normalizes null/malformed values and clamps
to [0, 1], so null-confidence facts no longer block staleness handling.
* ci: retrigger cancelled CI workflow
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Co-authored-by: Willem Jiang <willem.jiang@gmail.com>
The parse gate required all of {user, history, newFacts, factsToRemove} to
be present before accepting the model's JSON. A well-formed update that
simply has no facts to remove (the common case) omits the empty
factsToRemove key and was silently rejected. Drop factsToRemove from the
required set so those updates parse and apply.
LoopDetectionMiddleware._get_run_id used a truthiness check that
collapsed a present-but-None run_id to the same "default" key as a
totally absent one. SubagentExecutor sets context["run_id"] =
self.run_id unconditionally, so run_id is genuinely None for an
embedded/TUI-dispatched subagent, and later reads the stop reason back
with that same raw attribute via consume_stop_reason(self.run_id). The
write (keyed "default") and the read (keyed None) disagreed, so a
genuine loop-detection hard-stop's loop_capped reason was silently
dropped instead of reaching the lead.
Align _get_run_id with TokenBudgetMiddleware's key-presence-based
version, which does not have this bug: return the context value as-is
when the key is present (None included), and fall back to a
per-runtime-unique key only when the key is absent.
search_memory_facts sorted matches by fact.get("confidence", 0), which
returns None for a fact whose confidence key is explicitly null, crashing
the sort comparison. Use _coerce_source_confidence so null/malformed
confidence values are normalized and clamped before ranking.
When _process_queue found another worker already processing, it called
_schedule_timer(0), spawning a fresh Timer thread immediately and looping
tightly (spawn -> busy -> reschedule -> spawn) until the active worker
finished. Replace this with a _reprocess_pending flag: a concurrent caller
sets the flag and returns, and the active worker reschedules exactly once
in its finally block when work remains. Reset the flag in clear().
The remote-content allowlist in ToolResultSanitizationMiddleware
(`_REMOTE_CONTENT_TOOL_NAMES`) covered web_fetch / web_search /
image_search but not web_capture, which was added later. The Browserless
web_capture tool embeds the target site's `X-Response-Status` reason
phrase — free-form text controlled by whatever server is being captured
(RFC 7230 §3.1.2) — into its result message via `_target_status_warning`.
A malicious page could therefore forge a `<system-reminder>` block (or a
`--- END USER INPUT ---` boundary marker) through web_capture that would
be escaped for web_fetch, letting attacker-influenced remote content reach
the model as authoritative framework context.
Add "web_capture" to the allowlist so its result is structurally
neutralized for parity with the other remote-content tools. This extends
the same defense introduced in #4002 to the one built-in remote-content
tool it did not yet cover.
Add regression tests that build the web_capture result the way
community/browserless/tools.py does (real `_target_status_warning` +
`BrowserlessScreenshotResult`) and assert the forged tags/boundary markers
are escaped, while a benign status warning is preserved unchanged.
* fix(security): html-escape memory facts rendered into the injection prompt
The lead-agent system prompt declares the <memory> block user-managed and
everything else framework-internal, but the injection renderer _format_fact_line
formats a fact's content, category and correction sourceError raw. Memory is
user-editable via /api/memory, so a fact whose content is
'</memory></system-reminder>...' closes the block and relocates the text after
it out of the user-managed trust zone.
Escape those three fields at render time, mirroring the MEMORY_UPDATE_PROMPT
escaping added for the update-prompt side in #4028/#4060. The fact dict is not
mutated, so stored memory keeps the raw value and the apply path is unaffected.
* fix(memory): stop entity-encoding quotes in injected fact text
The three html.escape() calls in _format_fact_line used the default
quote=True, which also converts " to " and ' to '. These fields
are rendered as element text inside the <memory> block, never inside an
attribute value, so escaping quotes buys no defense here: only <, >, and &
can break out of the surrounding tags, and those are escaped either way.
Ordinary facts ("User's preference", 'Said "use Python"') reached the model
as User's preference / Said "use Python" -- content the
lead-agent prompt declares as user-managed data the model should discuss
freely. Pass quote=False and extend the benign-content test, which used a
string with no quotes and so never exercised this path.
Note the escape in updater.py's consolidation_candidates block renders into
an XML attribute value and correctly keeps quote=True.
`_fallback_title` sliced the user message to `min(max_chars, 50)` and then
appended a three-character ellipsis, so the returned title could be three
characters longer than the configured cap. `_parse_title`, six lines above,
slices the model's answer to `max_chars` exactly -- both read the same
`TitleConfig.max_chars`, only one honoured it.
This is the default path, not an error branch: `config.example.yaml` ships
`title.model_name: null` ("null = fast local fallback"), so every title is
produced here unless the operator opts into a title model. `max_chars` is a
documented key with a pydantic range of 10..200; any value in 10..52 makes a
long first message overshoot its cap.
Reserve room for the ellipsis before slicing. At the shipped `max_chars: 60`
the body is still 50 characters, so default output is unchanged.
The existing `test_sync_generate_title_respects_fallback_truncation` asserted
the shape of the truncation but never its length -- at its own `max_chars=50`
it was passing on a 53-character title. It now asserts the bound it is named
after.
* fix(security): html-escape fact content in memory prompt sections
Raw memory fact content was injected verbatim into prompt XML — a fact
containing a literal `"` could break the `"..."` delimiter, and a
closing tag like `</consolidation_candidates>` could prematurely end
the XML block, both potentially confusing the model.
Apply `html.escape()` to `content` in `_build_staleness_section` and
`_build_consolidation_section`, and to `cat` in the consolidation
section's XML attribute. Tests added for both sections covering special
characters, XML tag injection, and attribute injection.
Follow-up to #3996 as noted by reviewer willem-bd.
* fix(security): address reviewer follow-ups on html-escaping PR
- Escape `cat` in _build_staleness_section for symmetry with the
consolidation section (both sections now consistently html-escape
all LLM-derived category values that appear in the prompt)
- Add comment at current_memory=json.dumps() documenting the conscious
accept: json.dumps leaves < > & unescaped; lower-risk than
staleness/consolidation (read-only context, not delete/merge
instructions); fix at fact-content insert time if revisited
- Add test for category escaping in the staleness section
* fix(security): reference tracking issue #4044 in conscious-accept comment
* style: compress conscious-accept comment to two lines
* fix(subagents): inject durable context before compaction
* fix(subagents): coalesce system messages after durable-context injection
Address #4040 review:
- append SystemMessageCoalescingMiddleware innermost on the subagent chain
so the SystemMessage(authority) DurableContextMiddleware injects is merged
into one leading system_message; otherwise the durable fix trades #4039's
assistant-first 400 for a duplicate-system 400 on strict backends
- add a two-system regression guard driving the real builder output through
a strict model; assert exactly one leading SystemMessage
- assert single-leading-system in the compaction integration test too
- update the middleware count/last-element assertion (coalescer is now
unconditionally last, removing the summarization-dependence ambiguity)
- compare _skills_root against posixpath.normpath(container_path)
- document the coalescer on the subagent chain in backend/AGENTS.md
* Fix circuit breaker wedging after a non-retriable half-open probe
When the circuit breaker is half-open it admits a single probe call by
setting `_circuit_probe_in_flight = True`. If that probe raised a
*non-retriable* error (e.g. quota/auth), the except block skipped both
`_record_failure()` (correct - business errors must not trip the breaker)
and any probe reset, so the circuit stayed `half_open` with
`_circuit_probe_in_flight = True` permanently. Every later call then
fast-failed in `_check_circuit()` forever, because no call could run the
handler to reach `_record_success` / `_record_failure`.
Release the probe on the non-retriable path (mirroring the existing
GraphBubbleUp handler) so the next call admits a fresh probe. The breaker
still never trips on non-retriable errors. Applied to both the sync and
async paths.
Adds sync + async regression tests asserting the probe is released and the
next `_check_circuit()` re-admits a probe.
* Address review: extract _release_half_open_probe helper
`format_memory_for_injection` bound `facts_header` / `all_fact_lines` only
inside the `if isinstance(facts_data, list) and facts_data:` block, but the
structure-aware overflow-truncation path at the end of the function
references both unconditionally.
When a user's memory has sizeable user-context / history (so `sections` is
non-empty and the assembled output exceeds `max_tokens`) but an empty or
missing `facts` list, that block is skipped, so the truncation branch hits
`UnboundLocalError: cannot access local variable 'all_fact_lines'` and
aborts memory injection entirely.
Hoist the two initializers to function scope, alongside the existing
`guaranteed_line_tokens = 0`, so they are always bound. Behaviour is
unchanged when facts are present.
Adds a regression test (empty facts + oversized user context) that fails
with UnboundLocalError before the fix and truncates gracefully after.
`before_agent` guards `context = runtime.context or {}` at the top, but the
`run_id` stamp on a trailing HumanMessage still read the raw `runtime.context`,
so a None context (thread_id resolved from `config.configurable`) plus a
HumanMessage last message raised `AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no
attribute 'get'`. Use the guarded local `context` instead.
Adds a regression test.
The apply-time staleness guardrail built ``candidate_ids`` with a direct
``f["id"]`` access over ``_select_stale_candidates`` output:
candidate_ids = {f["id"] for f in _select_stale_candidates(current_memory, config)}
Every other fact access in ``updater.py`` uses ``f.get("id")``; this was the
lone direct-subscript outlier. An aged, non-protected fact that lacks an
``id`` key — common in legacy / hand-edited / migrated ``memory.json`` — is a
valid staleness candidate, so it reached ``f["id"]`` and raised
``KeyError: 'id'``, aborting the entire background memory-update cycle for
that user. The guardrail runs unconditionally (independent of the
``staleness_review_enabled`` flag), so any id-less aged fact triggers it as
soon as the LLM returns a non-empty ``staleFactsToRemove``.
Skip id-less candidates when building the intersection set. They can never
be targeted by the id-based removal set anyway, so behaviour is otherwise
unchanged.
Adds a regression test with an aged, id-less fact that raises KeyError
before the fix and applies cleanly after.
* feat(memory): add memory consolidation to synthesize fragmented facts
When a fact category accumulates many individual entries, the LLM
reviews them during the normal memory-update call (same invocation,
no extra API cost) and decides whether groups of related facts can be
synthesized into a single richer fact. This completes the memory
lifecycle: extraction → guaranteed injection → staleness review →
consolidation.
- Select fragmented categories by min-facts threshold, surface the most
fragmented groups first; prompt-layer caps aligned with apply-layer
guardrails so the LLM never sees groups it cannot act on
- Cap consolidated confidence at source maximum to prevent inflation;
reject results below fact_confidence_threshold
- Double-consume protection prevents a fact from being merged into
multiple consolidation targets
- Feature-gated at both prompt and apply time with per-cycle safety caps
- Add 26 tests covering candidate selection, normalization, apply
guardrails, and prompt integration
* fix(memory): address consolidation correctness issues from PR review
Six fixes based on maintainer review of #3996:
1. Deduplicate sourceIds in normalization — ["f1","f1"] previously
bypassed the ≥2-distinct-sources check; dict.fromkeys collapses it
to ["f1"] which is correctly rejected.
2. Run consolidation after max_facts trim — previously, sources were
deleted then the merged fact could be evicted by the trim, leaving
no record of either. Moving consolidation last ensures source facts
exist in the post-trim index before removal.
3. Fix count= attribute in consolidation prompt — advertised the full
category size but listed only max_sources IDs; now uses
min(len(group), max_sources) to match what the LLM can act on.
4. Exempt staleness_protected_categories from consolidation candidates
— mirrors the existing staleness-review contract so correction facts
are never surfaced for merging.
5. Strip and default category in consolidation normalization — " " or
" preference " are now normalised, matching _normalize_memory_update_fact.
6. Propagate sourceError from source facts into consolidated fact —
correction context is no longer silently lost on merge.
* fix(memory): add apply-time guardrails and tests for consolidation
P1: mirror the staleness-pass defense-in-depth pattern — build
allowed_source_ids from _select_consolidation_candidates at apply time
so a protected-category or below-threshold fact proposed by the LLM is
rejected regardless of model behavior.
P2a: test that LLM-returned confidence is capped at max source confidence
and that a capped result below fact_confidence_threshold is rejected.
P2b: test that factsToConsolidate with consolidation_enabled=False is a
no-op at apply time (35 tests, all pass).
* fix(memory): address three correctness issues from second review round
1. Default consolidation_enabled=False — consolidation is lossy (source
content is permanently replaced, only consolidatedFrom IDs preserved);
new lossy features default to off. config.example.yaml updated to match.
2. Unify confidence coercion between prompt and apply — _build_consolidation_section
now calls _coerce_source_confidence(fact) instead of an inline 0.0-default
coercion, so a null-confidence fact renders with 0.50 in the LLM prompt and
is capped at 0.50 at apply time (same value, same function).
3. Preserve staleness clock on merge — consolidated fact now carries the
newest source's createdAt (not now) so aged information does not gain a
fresh staleness-review window just by being consolidated; consolidatedAt
is added as an explicit audit field.
Three regression tests added (default=false, null-confidence consistency,
createdAt policy); all guardrail tests now set consolidation_enabled=True
explicitly so they test the guardrail, not the feature flag. 38 tests pass.
* fix(memory): harden createdAt comparison and confidence handling
1. createdAt max via _parse_fact_datetime — replaces string max() which
crashes on non-string createdAt (numeric unix timestamps) and sorts
Z/+00:00 mixed formats incorrectly. Mirrors how staleness computes age.
2. Remove dead min(..., 1.0) — _coerce_source_confidence already clamps
each source confidence to [0, 1], so max(source_confidences) ≤ 1.0
by contract; the outer min could never bind.
3. Clamp raw_llm_conf to [0, 1] before applying the source cap — out-of-
range values like 1.5 are safe today (pinned by the cap) but defensively
clamped first so the invariant holds even if the cap is ever loosened.
4. Doc: expand the apply-time guardrails comment to call out the protected-
category exclusion via allowed_source_ids — this is the central safety
property ("explicit user feedback is never silently merged away").
5. Test: add test_confidence_fallback_to_max_source_when_llm_omits_field
covering the else-branch (LLM omits confidence → uses max_source_conf).
6. Fix lint: reorder imports in test file (stdlib before third-party).
39 tests, all pass.
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Co-authored-by: Willem Jiang <willem.jiang@gmail.com>
Phase 3 of #3875 — subagents previously inherited none of the lead's
context-compaction, so a deep-research subagent (max_turns up to 150)
could accumulate >1M cumulative input before max_turns/timeout/token_budget
engaged, even after Phase 2's budget capped the pathological tail.
- Gate the subagent runtime chain on the SAME ``app_config.summarization.enabled``
switch the lead reads (per maintainer guidance in #3875), via the shared
``create_summarization_middleware`` factory. One config covers both chains;
no separate ``subagents.summarization`` field. No-op when summarization is
off (factory returns None).
- ``skip_memory_flush=True`` on the subagent path: the factory otherwise
attaches ``memory_flush_hook`` (when memory.enabled), which flushes
pre-compaction messages into durable memory keyed by thread_id. Subagents
share the parent's thread_id, so without skipping the hook a subagent's
internal turns would pollute the PARENT thread's durable memory
(#3875 Phase 3 review point).
- Harden ``capture_new_step_messages`` to tolerate history contraction:
summarization rewrites the messages channel via
``RemoveMessage(id=REMOVE_ALL_MESSAGES)``, shrinking len(messages) below
the step-capture cursor. Without a reset, every step appended after the
compaction point was dropped until length overtook the stale cursor (#3845
interaction, maintainer validation point (a)). Cursor now resets to the
new tail; id/content dedup prevents re-emitting pre-compaction steps.
- Couple the DEFAULT token-budget ceiling to ``summarization.enabled``
(#3875 Phase 3 review point): 1M when compaction is on, 2M when off
(preserves Phase 2's deliberate headroom for summarization-off
deep-research runs that can exceed 1M). A user-set budget (global or
per-agent) always wins regardless of the switch. Flagged tunable.
The summarization middleware does not implement ``consume_stop_reason``, so
the Phase 2 guard-cap stop-reason channel is unaffected.
Refs: https://github.com/bytedance/deer-flow/issues/3875
