The salvaged estimator ran a per-character Python loop on every
estimate_tokens_rough() call — a ~28,000,000x slowdown vs (len+3)//4 on a
1MB ASCII tool output (measured ~3.0s per call). Gate it:
- str.isascii() O(1) fast path keeps pure-ASCII text bit-identical to the
classic (len+3)//4 rule at ~1.3x baseline cost (0.23us vs 0.17us per
1MB call).
- Non-ASCII text counts dense CJK chars via a compiled character-class
regex in C (len(text) - len(re.sub(''))): ~352ms/1MB hangul vs ~2.1s
for the per-char loop.
- Non-ASCII-but-non-CJK text (accents, Cyrillic, emoji) keeps the classic
rule.
Also: parity tests against the per-char reference implementation, and
updated two stale expectations that encoded the old behavior (CJK now
counted ~1 token/char; short string content now ceil-divided instead of
floored to 0). The continuity test now detects merged-into-tail summaries
via _is_context_summary_content.
Snapshot review_agent._session_messages before teardown so close() can
clean per-session state without dropping the user-visible
self-improvement summary. Adds two regressions:
- bg-review summarizer receives captured review-agent tool messages
after review_agent.close() runs
- context-compressor protected-head handoff rehydration populates
_previous_summary and keeps the old handoff out of newly summarized
turns
Salvaged from PR #26039 onto current main after agent/background_review.py
extraction. Original commit 63eaf6055; bg-review test updated to patch
the module-level summarize_background_review_actions in
agent.background_review instead of the now-forwarder
AIAgent._summarize_background_review_actions.