Follow-up to the salvaged #64010 (Kenmege) and #63870 (dombejar) commits,
making one resolved compression.max_attempts cap govern ALL per-turn
compression attempt sites:
- conversation_loop: resolve max_compression_attempts ONCE at turn start
(it was previously re-resolved inside the API-call loop) and route the
pre-API pressure gate through it — that gate still hardcoded
'compression_attempts < 3' and logged 'attempt=%s/3'.
- conversation_loop: the salvaged post-tool compaction gate now uses the
resolved cap instead of a hardcoded 3.
- turn_context: the preflight compaction loop was 'for _pass in range(3)';
it now sizes itself from the same resolved cap.
- agent_init: harden the max_attempts parser — reject booleans (bool
subclasses int; 'true' would coerce to 1), reject fractional floats
instead of truncating them, keep accepting integral floats and numeric
strings; anything else falls back to 3 (floor 1, ceiling 10 unchanged).
- tests: replace #63870's inspect.getsource source-shape test with
behavioral loop tests (post-tool compaction fires <= cap times per turn,
shares its budget with the pre-API gate, resets between turns); add an
e2e test proving a 4th preflight pass runs at config cap=6 while the
unset default still stops at 3; extend the #64010 config tests with the
bool/float parser semantics.
Salvages #64010 by @Kenmege and #63870 by @dombejar.
The conversation loop hardcodes max_compression_attempts = 3. Sessions
that legitimately need more rounds are stranded: on a restart history
reload, incompressible tool schemas can keep the per-request estimate
above the compressor threshold even though the message floor compresses
correctly, so three rounds cannot clear it and the turn dies with
"Context length exceeded: max compression attempts (3) reached" — the
same failure class as #62605, where the rough estimate similarly leaves
3 retries short.
Make the cap a config key, compression.max_attempts:
- default 3 = identical to today, so an unset key is behavior-neutral;
- parsed and validated in agent_init alongside the other compression.*
keys (>= 1, hard-capped at 10, non-integer values fall back to 3),
attached as agent.max_compression_attempts;
- the loop reads it via getattr(agent, "max_compression_attempts", 3),
so objects without the attribute keep the prior behavior;
- documented in the DEFAULT_CONFIG compression block.
Tests pin the parse/validate/attach seam: default preserved, custom
value honored, floor and ceiling enforced, garbage tolerated, and the
loop-side getattr degradation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
