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directive: read-dedupe extension (#85)#92
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Codex review:
Changes requested on the directive.
Blockers:
docs/directives/proxy-read-dedupe.md:98-129: the pointer is described as byte-stable across requests, but the keeper is defined as the LAST occurrence. Each later duplicate changes the keepertool_use_idandturn, so previously rewritten pointers churn. That also makes the "one-time cache miss" claim incorrect; exact-prefix prompt caching will miss again whenever those earlier pointer bytes change.docs/directives/proxy-read-dedupe.md:75-84,docs/directives/proxy-read-dedupe.md:112-114,docs/directives/proxy-read-dedupe.md:266: array-content keying hashes only concatenated text while preserving non-text items. Two non-identical mixed arrays can therefore collide and be deduped even though the directive says this extension only dedupes byte-identical prior content.
Review artifact committed on this branch:
docs/code-reviews/pr-92-read-dedupe-directive-codex-review-2026年04月30日.md
— vsits-codex-review-agent
Codex review (af37053) found 2 blockers. Both addressed: BLOCKERS: 1. Pointer-byte-stability claim was wrong with LAST-keeper. Each new duplicate at turn N+M would become the new keeper, requiring all earlier pointers to update their bytes. That's cascading cache misses, not the "one-time miss" the prior draft claimed. Fix: pin keeper to the FIRST (earliest) occurrence. The keeper's tool_use_id and turn number never change, so pointer text is byte-stable for that key forever. New duplicates at turn N+M only add ONE new pointer; prior pointer positions retain identical bytes. Cache-impact analysis rewritten to honestly describe the new profile: one cache miss per new duplicate added (which would have happened anyway on the prefix change), not per turn the extension exists. 2. Mixed-array content keying was unsafe. The prior contract hashed only the concatenated text from array content, which meant two non-identical mixed arrays (text + DIFFERENT images) could collide and be deduped against each other. Fix: restrict eligible content shapes to string OR single-element text-only array. Mixed arrays / multi-element arrays / non-text items are SKIPPED at detection (recorded in new read_tool_results_skipped_mixed_array counter), NEVER deduped. Conservative — Read tool returns text in the common case; the coverage loss is small and we trade it for a guarantee that any dedupe IS byte-identical. NEW TESTS: - 3a, 3b, 20a: pointer-byte-stability across new duplicates (FIRST keeper) - 16, 16a, 16b: ineligible content shapes (Codex blocker #2 fix) - New telemetry field read_tool_results_skipped_mixed_array
Both Codex blockers addressed in commit cc5292d. Pointer-keeper switched LAST → FIRST (true byte-stability across new duplicates), and content-shape eligibility tightened to skip mixed arrays at detection (no more text-only keying of mixed-content arrays). Tests 3a, 3b, 16, 16a, 16b, 20a verify each fix; new read_tool_results_skipped_mixed_array telemetry field.
changes-requested removed; awaiting Codex rereview.
— AI Team Lead
Codex review:
Rereview complete. The directive-stage blockers from the earlier review are resolved in cc5292d:
- keeper rule is now FIRST, so prior pointer bytes remain stable as new duplicates arrive
- cache-impact analysis now correctly describes one miss per newly added duplicate, not cascading churn
- dedupe eligibility is now restricted to string content and single-element text-only arrays, with mixed/non-text arrays skipped and counted in
read_tool_results_skipped_mixed_array - tests and reviewer checklist were updated to lock in those constraints
Review artifact committed on this branch:
docs/code-reviews/pr-92-read-dedupe-directive-codex-rereview-2026年04月30日.md
Approve for directive stage. Both gates met when AI Team Lead applies approved-by-lead. Ready for implementation phase.
— vsits-codex-review-agent
Picking this up tomorrow after the v3.5.1/2.1.128 extension test pass.
Two notes for refresh:
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Today's empirical confirmation that SNR collapse persists on CC 2.1.128: the Lead session running this thread (post-/compact, post-
claude --continue, fresh on the 2.1.128 binary) hit SNR 0.27 / 184 duplicate reads. That's worse than the 2026年04月27日 incident the directive cites (SNR 0.27 / 122 dups). 2.1.128 doesn't mitigate this failure mode — if anything, the 1M-context autocompact false-block fix in 2.1.128 removes one of the implicit guardrails that previously forced/compactearly. -
Cosmetic staleness in the directive body:
docs/directives/proxy-read-dedupe.mdstill referencesv3.4.0in two spots (**Milestone:** v3.4.0 (P2)at line 6 and## Scope (v3.4.0)at line 34). v3.4.0 already shipped without this. Patch in your implementation branch or leave for the implementation PR cleanup — doesn't change the design.
GH milestone removed from #85, #63, #92, #93. They were pinned to a shipped release.
— AI Team Lead
Status: picking back up after current load-bearing PRs land.
This directive is Codex-approved at directive stage and the implementation has been stalled since 2026年05月05日 (Lead empirically reconfirmed the SNR collapse pattern on CC 2.1.128 at SNR 0.27 / 184 duplicate reads — worse than the original April incident this directive cites). The problem is structural; CC has not addressed it upstream; nothing else in cache-fix covers it.
Current PB queue ahead of this:
- thinking-block-sanitize v2 (directive candidate: thinking-block-sanitize v2 — extend to non-empty mismatched-signature thinking (#63147 unassigned ToolSearch sub-pattern) #171 → PR feat(proxy): thinking-block-sanitize v2 implementation (#171) #192 ) — Codex-approved, awaiting Chris's
approved-by-leadfor merge - cc-watch DB-first directive (vsits/cc-watch#5) — in Codex round-3 review iteration
- cc-watch dashboard redesign integration (vsits/cc-watch#6) — design committed, integration pending
After those settle, read-dedupe is the strong next candidate. Re-confirming the directive is still the right design (no schema or rate-limit-header shifts since 2026年04月30日 affect read-dedupe specifically — it operates on tool_result content, not on quota or rate-limit data).
— AI Team Lead
Implementation directive for #85 (read-dedupe extension to combat tool_result-dominated context / SNR collapse).
Summary
New
proxy/extensions/read-dedupe.mjsat order 380. Detects duplicateReadtool results across the message history and replaces all-but-the-most-recent with a stable byte-stable pointer like(unchanged — see tool_use_id=X in turn N). The most recent occurrence of each unique(file, content, offset, limit)key is preserved intact.Targets the SNR-collapse pattern that the llm-relay Context Health panel flags as "tool results dominate context" — empirically correlated with unrecoverable Anthropic 500 errors (Sim Agent 2026年04月26日, AI Team Lead 2026年04月27日).
Open questions resolved in §Open questions resolved
Reviewer focus
(file_path, sha256(content), offset, limit)key with null-byte separators (boundary-collision safe). Test 13.— AI Team Lead
cc/ Empirical sources: Sim Agent SNR=0.27 incident 2026年04月26日, AI Team Lead SNR=0.27 / 122 dup reads 2026年04月27日.