hermes-agent/agent/moa_loop.py
Teknium 975eb3a365 fix(moa): trim reference messages to fit each model's context window
Reference models may have a smaller context window than the aggregator
(e.g. kimi-k2.7-code @ 262K advising a glm-5.2 @ 1M conversation).
Without context-length protection, a reference whose window is exceeded
gets a hard HTTP 400 from the provider, which _run_reference's
try/except silently converts to a [failed: …] note — the MoA turn
silently degrades to fewer references (#60345).

Redesigned implementation of #60387:
- Estimate AFTER the advisory system prompt is prepended, so the
  request that is actually sent is what gets budgeted.
- Reserve output headroom: the preset's reference_max_tokens when set,
  else an 8192-token constant, plus a 10% estimator-error fraction.
- Trim on advisory-view boundaries (text-only user/assistant turns; no
  tool-result frames to orphan), preserving the system prompt, the
  user-first invariant after every pop (never assistant-first), and the
  trailing synthetic user turn.
- Cache get_model_context_length per (provider, model) in a per-fan-out
  dict shared across the worker threads, so a turn resolves each
  window once instead of probing metadata sources
  per-reference-per-iteration (failures are cached too).

Co-authored-by: webtecnica <75556242+webtecnica@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-23 18:40:09 -07:00

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"""Mixture-of-Agents runtime helpers for /moa turns.
The slash command is deliberately not a model tool. It marks one user turn as
MoA-enabled; the normal Hermes agent loop still owns tool calling and turn
termination, while this module gathers reference-model context before each model
iteration.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import hashlib
import logging
import re
import threading
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, wait as _futures_wait
from typing import Any
from agent.auxiliary_client import call_llm
from agent.message_content import flatten_message_text
from agent.transports import get_transport
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# --- MoA privacy filter (config: moa.privacy_filter — '' | display | full) ---
#
# Advisor (reference) outputs can echo PII from the conversation — emails,
# phone numbers, credentials pasted by the user — into surfaces the user may
# not expect: the labelled reference blocks rendered in the UI, saved MoA
# trace files, and (in `full` mode) the guidance block injected into the
# aggregator prompt (issue #59959). Secret/credential shapes (API-key
# prefixes, JWTs, private keys, DB connection strings, E.164 phone numbers)
# are handled by the repo's central redactor, ``agent.redact
# .redact_sensitive_text`` — the MoA filter never re-implements those. The
# two patterns below cover the PII classes the central redactor deliberately
# leaves alone for log/tool output (emails and formatted phone numbers).
#
# Pattern safety: advisory text is frequently code-review-shaped — line
# numbers, timestamps, git SHAs, IDs, IP addresses. A bare 10-digit match
# would mangle all of those, so the phone pattern requires clearly delimited
# formatting: a parenthesized area code and/or explicit `-`/`.` separators
# between groups ((555) 123-4567, 555-123-4567, 555.123.4567, +1 555-123-4567).
# Undelimited digit runs (5551234567), dates (2026-07-12), times (12:34:56),
# hex IDs, and dotted quads never match. International numbers in E.164 form
# (+14155551234) are already masked by the central redactor.
_MOA_EMAIL_RE = re.compile(r"\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,}\b")
_MOA_PHONE_RE = re.compile(
r"(?<![\w.+-])" # no leading word char / dot / + / - (kills IPs, IDs, versions)
r"(?:\+?1[ .-])?" # optional NA country code
r"(?:\(\d{3}\)[ .-]?|\d{3}[.-])" # delimited area code: (555) or 555- / 555.
r"\d{3}[.-]\d{4}" # exchange-subscriber with explicit separator
r"(?![\w-])" # no trailing word char / hyphen
)
def _redact_reference_text(text: Any) -> Any:
"""Redact secrets + PII from one advisor/reference text surface.
Centralized secret shapes first (force=True: the MoA privacy filter is
its own explicit opt-in, independent of the global log-redaction toggle;
code_file=True: advisory text is prose/code, so the ENV/JSON assignment
heuristics that mangle source snippets stay off), then the MoA-specific
email/formatted-phone patterns. Non-string inputs pass through unchanged.
"""
if not isinstance(text, str) or not text:
return text
from agent.redact import redact_sensitive_text
text = redact_sensitive_text(text, force=True, code_file=True)
text = _MOA_EMAIL_RE.sub("[redacted email]", text)
text = _MOA_PHONE_RE.sub("[redacted phone]", text)
return text
def _moa_privacy_mode(moa_raw: Any) -> str:
"""Resolve the normalized privacy-filter mode from a raw ``moa`` config."""
from hermes_cli.moa_config import coerce_privacy_filter
raw = moa_raw if isinstance(moa_raw, dict) else {}
return coerce_privacy_filter(raw.get("privacy_filter"))
def _redact_reference_outputs(
reference_outputs: list[tuple[str, str, Any]],
) -> list[tuple[str, str, Any]]:
"""Return reference-output tuples with their advisor text redacted.
The ``_RefAccounting`` third slot is left as-is — accounting fields carry
no advisor text; the full-output/input trace fields are redacted
separately at trace-stash time (see create()) so the LIVE cache keeps raw
accounting objects untouched.
"""
return [
(label, _redact_reference_text(text), acct)
for label, text, acct in reference_outputs
]
def _redact_trace_messages(messages: Any) -> Any:
"""Redact message copies destined for trace persistence.
Handles both string content and structured content-part lists (e.g.
cache_control-decorated text parts). Unknown shapes pass through.
"""
if not isinstance(messages, list):
return messages
out: list[Any] = []
for m in messages:
if not isinstance(m, dict):
out.append(m)
continue
content = m.get("content")
if isinstance(content, str):
out.append({**m, "content": _redact_reference_text(content)})
elif isinstance(content, list):
out.append(
{
**m,
"content": [
{**p, "text": _redact_reference_text(p.get("text"))}
if isinstance(p, dict) and isinstance(p.get("text"), str)
else p
for p in content
],
}
)
else:
out.append(m)
return out
def _redact_trace_accounting(acct: Any) -> Any:
"""Return a copy of a ``_RefAccounting`` with its trace text redacted.
Traces persist the advisor's FULL input messages and output to disk, so a
privacy-filtered run must not write raw PII there. Usage/cost fields are
copied verbatim (numbers, no text). Non-accounting objects pass through.
"""
if not isinstance(acct, _RefAccounting):
return acct
return _RefAccounting(
acct.usage,
acct.cost_usd,
acct.cost_status,
acct.cost_source,
messages=_redact_trace_messages(acct.messages),
output=_redact_reference_text(acct.output),
model=acct.model,
provider=acct.provider,
temperature=acct.temperature,
)
# Upper bound on concurrent reference-model calls. References are independent
# advisory calls (no tools, no inter-dependence), so we fan them out the same
# way delegate_task runs a batch: all in flight at once, results collected when
# every reference finishes. Presets rarely list more than a handful of
# references; this cap just protects against a pathologically large preset
# opening dozens of sockets at once.
_MAX_REFERENCE_WORKERS = 8
class _RefAccounting:
"""Per-reference token usage + estimated cost + full trace, carried as the
third slot of a reference-output tuple.
Kept as a tiny object (not a bare CanonicalUsage) because an advisor may
run on a different model/provider than the aggregator, so its cost MUST be
priced at its OWN model's rate — folding advisor tokens into the
aggregator's usage and pricing the sum at the aggregator's rate would
misprice every advisor. ``usage`` feeds accurate token counts;
``cost_usd`` feeds accurate cost.
``messages`` / ``output`` / ``model`` / ``provider`` / ``temperature``
carry the FULL reference input and output for trace persistence (the
display ``text`` is a truncated preview and is not enough to audit what an
advisor actually saw). They are only populated when tracing is on; they add
negligible cost otherwise.
"""
__slots__ = (
"usage",
"cost_usd",
"cost_status",
"cost_source",
"messages",
"output",
"model",
"provider",
"temperature",
)
def __init__(
self,
usage: Any,
cost_usd: Any = None,
cost_status: str | None = None,
cost_source: str | None = None,
*,
messages: Any = None,
output: str | None = None,
model: str | None = None,
provider: str | None = None,
temperature: Any = None,
):
self.usage = usage
self.cost_usd = cost_usd
self.cost_status = cost_status
self.cost_source = cost_source
self.messages = messages
self.output = output
self.model = model
self.provider = provider
self.temperature = temperature
# Per-tool-result character budget for the advisory reference view. Tool
# results can be huge (a full diff, a 5000-line file dump); replaying them
# verbatim per reference per tool-loop step would blow the reference model's
# context window and cost. We keep the agent's *actions* (tool calls) in full —
# they are cheap, high-signal, and tell the reference what the agent did — but
# preview each tool *result* head+tail so the reference still sees what came
# back without replaying megabytes. The acting aggregator always gets the full,
# untrimmed transcript; this budget only shapes the advisory copy.
_REFERENCE_TOOL_RESULT_BUDGET = 4000
# System prompt prepended to every reference-model call. References are
# advisory — they do NOT act, call tools, or own the task. Without this
# framing a reference receives the bare trimmed conversation and assumes it is
# the acting agent: it then refuses ("I can't access repositories / URLs from
# here") or tries to call tools it doesn't have. The prompt reframes the model
# as an analyst whose job is to reason about the presented state and hand its
# best thinking to the aggregator/orchestrator that will actually act.
_REFERENCE_SYSTEM_PROMPT = (
"You are a reference advisor in a Mixture of Agents (MoA) process. You are "
"NOT the acting agent and you do NOT execute anything: you cannot call "
"tools, run commands, browse, or access files, repositories, or URLs, and "
"you should not try to or apologize for being unable to. A separate "
"aggregator/orchestrator model holds those capabilities and will take the "
"actual actions.\n\n"
"CRITICAL: You must NEVER claim or imply that you have executed a command, "
"downloaded a file, accessed a URL, or performed any action. You can only "
"analyze and advise based on the conversation context. Examples of what to "
"avoid:\n"
"- Bad: \"I ran curl and got 404.\"\n"
"- Bad: \"I downloaded the file successfully.\"\n"
"- Bad: \"I checked the repository and found...\"\n"
"- Good: \"Based on the error pattern, a curl request to that URL would likely return 404.\"\n"
"- Good: \"The conversation suggests downloading this file may help.\"\n"
"- Good: \"From the context, checking the repository would reveal...\"\n\n"
"The conversation below is the current state of a task handled by that "
"acting agent. Your job is to give your most intelligent analysis of that "
"state: understand the goal, reason about the problem, and advise on what "
"to do next. Surface the best approach, concrete next steps and tool-use "
"strategy, likely pitfalls and risks, and anything the acting agent may "
"have missed or gotten wrong. Assume any referenced files, URLs, or "
"systems exist and reason about them from the context given rather than "
"asking for access.\n\n"
"Respond with your advice directly — no preamble, no disclaimers about "
"tools or access. Your response is private guidance handed to the "
"aggregator, not an answer shown to the user. NEVER claim to have executed "
"anything."
)
def _slot_label(slot: dict[str, Any]) -> str:
label = f"{(slot.get('provider') or '').strip()}:{(slot.get('model') or '').strip()}"
effort = str(slot.get("reasoning_effort") or "").strip()
return f"{label}[reasoning={effort}]" if effort else label
def _slot_reasoning_config(slot: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
"""Translate optional per-MoA-slot reasoning_effort into runtime config."""
effort = slot.get("reasoning_effort")
try:
from hermes_constants import parse_reasoning_effort
return parse_reasoning_effort(effort)
except Exception: # pragma: no cover - defensive; bad config must not break MoA
return None
def _aggregator_reasoning_config(aggregator: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
"""Resolve the aggregator's reasoning config: slot > per-model > global.
The aggregator is MoA's ACTING model, so when its slot doesn't pin a
reasoning_effort it must resolve exactly like any other acting model:
through the shared chokepoint (``resolve_reasoning_config``), which
applies ``agent.reasoning_overrides`` for the slot's model first, then
the global ``agent.reasoning_effort``. Without this the main loop's
reasoning gates (keyed to the virtual ``moa://local`` identity) never
fire, so the aggregator silently ran at the backend default (#64187).
Reference advisors intentionally do NOT get this fallback: they are side
calls (like auxiliary tasks), and inheriting a global ``xhigh`` into every
advisor fan-out would silently multiply cost. Their depth is slot-or-
provider-default only.
"""
cfg = _slot_reasoning_config(aggregator)
if cfg is not None:
return cfg
try:
from hermes_cli.config import load_config
from hermes_constants import resolve_reasoning_config
return resolve_reasoning_config(
load_config() or {}, str(aggregator.get("model") or "")
)
except Exception: # pragma: no cover - defensive; bad config must not break MoA
return None
def _slot_runtime(slot: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Resolve a reference/aggregator slot to real runtime call kwargs.
A MoA slot is just a model selection — it must be called the same way any
model is called elsewhere, not through a bare ``call_llm(provider=...,
model=...)`` that leaves base_url/api_key/api_mode unresolved and lets the
auxiliary auto-detector guess. We route the slot's provider through
``resolve_runtime_provider`` (the canonical provider→api_mode/base_url/
api_key resolver the CLI, gateway, and delegate_task all use), so the slot
gets its provider's real API surface — e.g. MiniMax → anthropic_messages,
GPT-5/o-series → max_completion_tokens, custom endpoints → their base_url.
Returns the kwargs to pass through to ``call_llm`` (provider/model plus the
resolved base_url/api_key when available). Falls back to the bare
provider/model on any resolution error so a misconfigured slot still
attempts the call rather than aborting the whole MoA turn.
"""
provider = str(slot.get("provider") or "").strip()
model = str(slot.get("model") or "").strip()
out: dict[str, Any] = {"provider": provider, "model": model}
try:
from hermes_cli.runtime_provider import resolve_runtime_provider
rt = resolve_runtime_provider(requested=provider, target_model=model)
# Forward the resolved endpoint through to call_llm unconditionally.
# call_llm's _resolve_task_provider_model() is the single chokepoint that
# decides whether an explicit base_url collapses a call to the generic
# ``custom`` route or keeps the provider's real identity: it preserves
# identity for any first-class provider (via
# _preserve_provider_with_base_url, a provider-catalog capability check),
# so provider branches that add auth refresh / request metadata /
# request-shape adapters — anthropic OAuth (Bearer + anthropic-beta),
# openai-codex Responses wrapping + Cloudflare headers, xai-oauth,
# bedrock SigV4 signing, nous Portal tags — still fire. Those branches
# re-resolve their own credentials by name and ignore a forwarded
# base_url/api_key, so forwarding is safe even for a placeholder key
# (bedrock's "aws-sdk"). We used to maintain a name-preservation set here
# too; that duplicated the chokepoint and drifted out of sync, so the
# single source of truth now lives in call_llm.
if rt.get("base_url"):
out["base_url"] = rt["base_url"]
if rt.get("api_key"):
out["api_key"] = rt["api_key"]
if rt.get("api_mode"):
out["api_mode"] = rt["api_mode"]
request_overrides = rt.get("request_overrides")
if isinstance(request_overrides, dict):
extra_body = request_overrides.get("extra_body")
if isinstance(extra_body, dict) and extra_body:
out["extra_body"] = dict(extra_body)
except Exception as exc: # pragma: no cover - defensive
logger.debug("MoA slot runtime resolution failed for %s: %s", _slot_label(slot), exc)
return out
def _merge_slot_extra_body(
slot_extra_body: Any,
caller_extra_body: Any,
) -> Any:
"""Merge slot defaults with a caller override for ``call_llm``."""
if isinstance(slot_extra_body, dict) and slot_extra_body:
if isinstance(caller_extra_body, dict):
return {**slot_extra_body, **caller_extra_body}
if caller_extra_body:
return caller_extra_body
return dict(slot_extra_body)
return caller_extra_body
def _maybe_apply_moa_cache_control(
messages: list[dict[str, Any]],
runtime: dict[str, Any],
) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Decorate an advisor or aggregator request with cache_control when its
route honors it.
Reuses the SAME policy function as the main agent loop
(``anthropic_prompt_cache_policy``) resolved against the slot's own
provider/base_url/api_mode/model, and the SAME breakpoint layout
(``apply_anthropic_cache_control``, system_and_3). This keeps advisor and
aggregator calls decorated exactly like an acting agent on that provider
would be — no MoA-specific caching logic to drift.
Returns the messages unchanged on any resolution error or when the
policy says the route doesn't honor markers.
"""
try:
from types import SimpleNamespace
from agent.agent_runtime_helpers import anthropic_prompt_cache_policy
from agent.prompt_caching import apply_anthropic_cache_control
# The policy function reads agent.* only as fallbacks for kwargs we
# don't pass; provide a stub so the slot is judged purely on its own
# resolved runtime.
stub = SimpleNamespace(provider="", base_url="", api_mode="", model="")
should_cache, native_layout = anthropic_prompt_cache_policy(
stub,
provider=runtime.get("provider") or "",
base_url=runtime.get("base_url") or "",
api_mode=runtime.get("api_mode") or "",
model=runtime.get("model") or "",
)
if not should_cache:
return messages
return apply_anthropic_cache_control(
messages, native_anthropic=native_layout
)
except Exception as exc: # pragma: no cover - decoration must never break a call
logger.debug("MoA cache_control decoration skipped: %s", exc)
return messages
def _run_reference(
slot: dict[str, Any],
ref_messages: list[dict[str, Any]],
*,
temperature: float | None = None,
max_tokens: int | None = None,
reference_timeout: float | None = None,
context_length_cache: Any = None,
) -> tuple[str, str, Any]:
"""Call one reference model and return ``(label, text, accounting)``.
The slot is resolved to its provider's real runtime (via ``_slot_runtime``)
and called through the same ``call_llm`` request-building path any model
uses, so per-model wire-format handling (anthropic_messages,
max_completion_tokens, fixed/forbidden temperature) applies identically to
a reference as it would if that model were the acting model. MoA imposes no
cap of its own (``max_tokens`` defaults to ``None`` → omitted → the model's
real maximum); ``temperature`` is only the user's configured preset value,
which call_llm may still override per model.
The reference's token usage is normalized with the slot's OWN resolved
provider/api_mode (advisors may run on a different provider than the
aggregator, with different usage wire shapes) and returned as a
``CanonicalUsage`` so the caller can fold advisor spend into session
accounting. Without this, the entire reference fan-out — often the bulk of
a MoA turn's token spend — is invisible to cost tracking, which only ever
saw the aggregator's usage.
Never raises: a failed reference becomes a labelled note so the aggregator
can still act with partial context. Designed to run inside a thread pool —
``call_llm`` is synchronous/blocking, so threads (not asyncio) are the right
concurrency primitive, mirroring ``delegate_task``'s batch fan-out.
"""
from agent.usage_pricing import CanonicalUsage, estimate_usage_cost, normalize_usage
label = _slot_label(slot)
runtime = _slot_runtime(slot)
try:
# Prepend the advisory-role system prompt so the reference understands
# it is analyzing state for an aggregator, not acting on the task. The
# trimmed view (_reference_messages) already strips the agent's own
# system prompt, so this is the only system message the reference sees.
messages = [{"role": "system", "content": _REFERENCE_SYSTEM_PROMPT}, *ref_messages]
# Trim to fit THIS reference model's context window. Reference models
# may have a smaller window than the aggregator (e.g. kimi-k2.7-code
# @ 262K advising a glm-5.2 @ 1M conversation); without this trim the
# provider returns a hard HTTP 400 which the except below silently
# converts to a [failed: …] note (issue #60345). Estimated AFTER the
# advisory system prompt is prepended so its tokens count against the
# budget too.
messages = _trim_messages_for_reference(
messages,
slot,
runtime,
reserve_output_tokens=max_tokens,
context_length_cache=context_length_cache,
)
# Apply the same Anthropic-style prompt-caching decoration the main
# agent loop applies (system_and_3 breakpoints). The advisory view is
# append-only across iterations (new turns append before the trailing
# synthetic marker), so on cache-honoring routes (Claude via
# OpenRouter/native, MiniMax, Qwen/DashScope) iteration N+1's prefix
# replays iteration N's cached prefix. Without this, Claude advisors
# served ZERO cache reads across an entire benchmark run (measured:
# 0/1227 calls, 11.5M re-billed input tokens) because Anthropic
# caching is opt-in per request. OpenAI-family advisors are untouched
# (their caching is automatic; markers are ignored harmlessly, but we
# only decorate when the policy says the route honors them).
messages = _maybe_apply_moa_cache_control(messages, runtime)
# Per-slot max_tokens takes precedence over the preset-level
# reference_max_tokens passed in by the caller. This lets each
# reference model have its own output cap independently.
_slot_max_tokens: int | None = slot.get("max_tokens")
_effective_max_tokens = _slot_max_tokens if _slot_max_tokens is not None else max_tokens
extra_headers = None
# Normalize provider aliases (github, github-copilot, github-models,
# ...) through the auxiliary client's canonical alias table so slot
# configs that spell Copilot differently still get the header.
from agent.auxiliary_client import _normalize_aux_provider
if _normalize_aux_provider(str(runtime.get("provider") or "")) in (
"copilot",
"copilot-acp",
):
# Copilot Pro/Pro+ gates some premium chat models on request
# attribution. The main agent marks the first API request of a
# user turn as ``x-initiator: user``; MoA reference fan-out is also
# directly serving the user's current turn, not a background agent
# task, so mirror that header here. Without it, Claude/Gemini
# Copilot advisors can be rejected as unavailable to the
# ``copilot-language-server`` integrator even though standalone
# Copilot calls work.
extra_headers = {"x-initiator": "user"}
response = call_llm(
task="moa_reference",
messages=messages,
temperature=temperature,
max_tokens=_effective_max_tokens,
timeout=reference_timeout,
reasoning_config=_slot_reasoning_config(slot),
extra_headers=extra_headers,
**runtime,
)
usage = CanonicalUsage()
raw_usage = getattr(response, "usage", None)
if raw_usage:
try:
usage = normalize_usage(
raw_usage,
provider=runtime.get("provider"),
api_mode=runtime.get("api_mode"),
)
except Exception: # pragma: no cover - defensive
usage = CanonicalUsage()
# Price this advisor at ITS OWN model/provider rate (with correct
# cache-read/cache-write split), not the aggregator's. This is why
# advisor cost is summed as dollars rather than by folding tokens into
# the aggregator's usage.
cost_usd = None
cost_status = None
cost_source = None
try:
cost = estimate_usage_cost(
slot.get("model") or "",
usage,
provider=runtime.get("provider"),
base_url=runtime.get("base_url"),
api_key=runtime.get("api_key"),
)
cost_usd = cost.amount_usd
cost_status = cost.status
cost_source = cost.source
except Exception: # pragma: no cover - defensive
pass
_output_text = _extract_text(response) or "(empty response)"
acct = _RefAccounting(
usage,
cost_usd,
cost_status,
cost_source,
messages=messages,
output=_output_text,
model=slot.get("model"),
provider=runtime.get("provider") or slot.get("provider"),
temperature=temperature,
)
return label, _output_text, acct
except Exception as exc:
logger.warning("MoA reference model %s failed: %s", label, exc)
return label, f"[failed: {exc}]", _RefAccounting(
CanonicalUsage(),
messages=[{"role": "system", "content": _REFERENCE_SYSTEM_PROMPT}, *ref_messages],
output=f"[failed: {exc}]",
model=slot.get("model"),
provider=runtime.get("provider") or slot.get("provider"),
temperature=temperature,
)
# Output-token headroom reserved inside the reference's context window when
# the preset does not cap advisor output (reference_max_tokens=None). Roughly
# one long-form advisory answer; generous enough for thinking models' visible
# output without starving the input budget.
_REFERENCE_DEFAULT_OUTPUT_RESERVE = 8192
# Additional estimation slack: estimate_messages_tokens_rough is a rough
# chars/4 heuristic and providers tokenize less favorably on code/JSON-heavy
# transcripts, so keep a safety fraction of the window unbudgeted.
_REFERENCE_TRIM_SAFETY_FRACTION = 0.10
def _trim_messages_for_reference(
messages: list[dict[str, Any]],
slot: dict[str, str],
runtime: dict[str, Any],
*,
reserve_output_tokens: int | None = None,
context_length_cache: Any = None,
) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Trim an advisory request to fit within a reference model's context window.
Reference models may have a smaller context window than the aggregator or
the main conversation. Without this trim, a reference whose window is
exceeded gets a hard HTTP 400 from the provider, which ``_run_reference``'s
try/except silently converts to a ``[failed: …]`` note — the MoA turn
silently degrades to fewer references (issue #60345).
``messages`` is the FULL request as it will be sent — the advisory system
prompt already prepended — so the estimate covers everything the provider
will count. The budget reserves ``reserve_output_tokens`` (the preset's
``reference_max_tokens`` when set, else a sane constant) for the model's
response plus a safety fraction for estimator error.
Trimming drops the OLDEST conversation frames (right after the system
prompt) and preserves two invariants of the advisory view, which is
text-only user/assistant turns (``_reference_messages`` renders tool
calls/results inline, so there are no tool-result frames to orphan):
- the system prompt (index 0) is always kept;
- the first non-system message stays ``user``-first — after each pop,
any now-leading assistant turns are popped too, so no provider ever
sees an assistant-first conversation;
- the trailing user turn (the synthetic judge-the-state marker) and at
least one preceding turn are always kept, even if still over budget —
a too-long-but-recent view beats an empty request.
``context_length_cache`` is an optional per-turn dict keyed by
``(provider, model)`` so one fan-out (and every iteration reusing the
cache) resolves each model's window at most once instead of re-probing
metadata sources per-reference-per-iteration. When the window cannot be
resolved, messages are returned unchanged.
"""
if not messages:
return messages
from agent.model_metadata import (
estimate_messages_tokens_rough,
get_model_context_length,
)
model = str(slot.get("model") or "")
provider = str(runtime.get("provider") or slot.get("provider") or "")
if not model:
return messages
cache_key = (provider, model)
context_length: int | None = None
if isinstance(context_length_cache, dict) and cache_key in context_length_cache:
context_length = context_length_cache[cache_key]
else:
try:
context_length = get_model_context_length(
model=model,
base_url=str(runtime.get("base_url") or ""),
api_key=str(runtime.get("api_key") or ""),
provider=provider,
)
except Exception:
logger.debug(
"MoA reference context-length resolution failed for %s",
_slot_label(slot),
)
context_length = None
if isinstance(context_length_cache, dict):
# Cache failures too (as None) — a flaky metadata source should
# not be re-probed for every reference of every iteration.
context_length_cache[cache_key] = context_length
if not isinstance(context_length, int) or context_length <= 0:
return messages
reserve = (
int(reserve_output_tokens)
if isinstance(reserve_output_tokens, int) and reserve_output_tokens > 0
else _REFERENCE_DEFAULT_OUTPUT_RESERVE
)
budget = int(context_length * (1.0 - _REFERENCE_TRIM_SAFETY_FRACTION)) - reserve
if budget <= 0:
return messages
estimated = estimate_messages_tokens_rough(messages)
if estimated <= budget:
return messages
has_system = bool(messages) and messages[0].get("role") == "system"
head = [messages[0]] if has_system else []
body = list(messages[1:] if has_system else messages)
# Keep the trailing user turn plus at least one preceding turn.
while len(body) > 2 and estimate_messages_tokens_rough(head + body) > budget:
body.pop(0)
# Preserve the user-first invariant: never leave the advisory
# conversation starting on an assistant turn after a pop.
while len(body) > 2 and body[0].get("role") == "assistant":
body.pop(0)
# The loop can stop with two frames left where the first is an
# assistant turn — enforce user-first even then (a lone trailing user
# turn is a valid request; an assistant-first one is not).
while len(body) > 1 and body[0].get("role") == "assistant":
body.pop(0)
trimmed = head + body
dropped = len(messages) - len(trimmed)
if dropped:
logger.info(
"MoA reference %s: estimated %d tokens exceeds budget %d "
"(window %d, output reserve %d); dropped %d oldest message(s).",
_slot_label(slot),
estimated,
budget,
context_length,
reserve,
dropped,
)
return trimmed
_REFERENCE_POLL_INTERVAL_S = 5.0
# Sentinel text for a reference slot whose wait was aborted by a user
# interrupt. Shared by _run_references_parallel (which writes it) and the
# facade cache logic (which must never cache it as real advice).
_INTERRUPTED_REFERENCE_NOTE = "[skipped: interrupted by user]"
def _run_references_parallel(
reference_models: list[dict[str, Any]],
ref_messages: list[dict[str, Any]],
*,
temperature: float | None = None,
max_tokens: int | None = None,
progress_callback: Any = None,
reference_timeout: float | None = None,
agent: Any = None,
late_accounting_sink: Any = None,
) -> list[tuple[str, str, Any]]:
"""Fan out all reference models in parallel, returning outputs in order.
Like ``delegate_task``'s batch mode, every reference is dispatched at once
and we block until all of them finish before handing the joined results to
the aggregator. Output order matches ``reference_models`` so the
``Reference {idx}`` labelling stays stable. MoA presets that reference
another MoA preset are skipped here (recursion guard) with a labelled note.
If ``progress_callback`` is provided it is invoked as each reference
completes: ``progress_callback(refs_done, refs_total, label)``. The total
matches ``len(reference_models)`` so listeners can render a status-bar
progress like ``MOA: 2/3 refs done``. Best-effort — failures are logged
but never break the fan-out (display must never block a turn).
Each element is ``(label, text, accounting)`` where accounting is a
``_RefAccounting`` object (zeroed for skipped/failed/interrupted
references).
When *agent* is given, the fan-out is interruptible: waiting for the
batch is broken into ``_REFERENCE_POLL_INTERVAL_S``-second polls (instead
of one blocking ``future.result()`` per reference) so a user interrupt
mid-turn can abort the wait — mirroring the same interrupt check
``agent.tool_executor`` already applies to its own concurrent tool
batch. This does not add or change any per-reference *timeout* (that is
``reference_timeout`` / ``auxiliary.moa_reference.timeout``, resolved
elsewhere) — it only lets the caller stop waiting early. References
already in flight cannot be forcibly killed (``call_llm`` is a blocking
HTTP call with no interrupt hook of its own, same limitation
tool_executor has for tools without an interrupt check); an interrupted
reference's own timeout still reaps its thread independently. *agent* is
optional and defaults to ``None``, preserving the uninterruptible
blocking behavior for any caller that doesn't pass it.
"""
from agent.usage_pricing import CanonicalUsage
if not reference_models:
return []
results: list[tuple[str, str, Any] | None] = [None] * len(reference_models)
futures: dict[Any, int] = {}
workers = min(_MAX_REFERENCE_WORKERS, len(reference_models))
# Reference slots run on bare executor threads, which start with an empty
# contextvars.Context — propagate the parent turn's context (approval
# callbacks + the Nous Portal conversation tag) into each worker so
# advisor calls attribute to the same conversation as the acting turn.
from tools.thread_context import propagate_context_to_thread
total = len(reference_models)
completed = 0
executor = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=workers)
interrupted = False
# Per-fan-out context-length cache shared by every reference worker, so
# duplicate (provider, model) slots resolve their window once per turn
# instead of re-probing metadata sources per reference (dict get/set is
# GIL-atomic; a rare duplicate probe on a first-use race is harmless).
_ctx_len_cache: dict[tuple[str, str], int | None] = {}
try:
for idx, slot in enumerate(reference_models):
if slot.get("provider") == "moa":
results[idx] = (
_slot_label(slot),
"[skipped: MoA presets cannot recursively reference MoA]",
_RefAccounting(CanonicalUsage()),
)
continue
futures[
executor.submit(
propagate_context_to_thread(_run_reference),
slot,
ref_messages,
temperature=temperature,
max_tokens=max_tokens,
reference_timeout=reference_timeout,
context_length_cache=_ctx_len_cache,
)
] = idx
# Collect every reference before returning — the aggregator needs the
# complete set, so there is no early-exit / first-completed path
# here, other than a user interrupt. Progress callbacks fire as each
# reference completes so frontends can render "MOA: k/n refs done".
pending = set(futures)
while pending:
done, pending = _futures_wait(pending, timeout=_REFERENCE_POLL_INTERVAL_S)
for future in done:
idx = futures[future]
results[idx] = future.result()
completed += 1
if progress_callback is not None:
try:
label = _slot_label(reference_models[idx])
progress_callback(completed, total, label)
except Exception as exc: # pragma: no cover - display must never break
logger.debug("MoA progress_callback failed: %s", exc)
if not pending:
break
if agent is not None and getattr(agent, "_interrupt_requested", False):
interrupted = True
break
if interrupted:
for future, idx in futures.items():
if results[idx] is not None:
continue
if future.cancel():
# Never dispatched — genuinely nothing was billed.
results[idx] = (
_slot_label(reference_models[idx]),
_INTERRUPTED_REFERENCE_NOTE,
_RefAccounting(CanonicalUsage()),
)
elif future.done():
# Finished between the interrupt check and now — the call
# completed and billed, so keep its REAL output and
# accounting rather than zeroing it with a placeholder.
results[idx] = future.result()
else:
# Already running — cannot be force-killed (see
# docstring); leave it be so the caller isn't blocked,
# and note that its output was abandoned. The provider
# call is still in flight and WILL bill when it
# completes, so hand its eventual accounting to the
# caller's sink instead of silently dropping it.
label = _slot_label(reference_models[idx])
results[idx] = (
label,
_INTERRUPTED_REFERENCE_NOTE,
_RefAccounting(CanonicalUsage()),
)
if late_accounting_sink is not None:
def _record_late(f: Any, _label: str = label) -> None:
try:
_lbl, _txt, _acct = f.result()
except Exception: # pragma: no cover - defensive
return
try:
late_accounting_sink(_label, _acct)
except Exception: # pragma: no cover - defensive
logger.debug(
"MoA: late accounting sink failed for %s",
_label,
)
future.add_done_callback(_record_late)
finally:
executor.shutdown(wait=not interrupted, cancel_futures=interrupted)
return [r for r in results if r is not None]
def _truncate_tool_result(text: str, budget: int = _REFERENCE_TOOL_RESULT_BUDGET) -> str:
"""Head+tail preview of a tool result for the advisory view.
Keeps the first and last halves of the budget with a ``[... N chars
omitted ...]`` marker between them, so a reference sees both how the result
started and how it ended without replaying the whole payload.
"""
if not text or len(text) <= budget:
return text
half = budget // 2
omitted = len(text) - 2 * half
return f"{text[:half]}\n[... {omitted} chars omitted ...]\n{text[-half:]}"
def _render_tool_calls(tool_calls: Any) -> str:
"""Render an assistant turn's tool_calls as readable text lines.
The advisory view cannot carry real ``tool_calls`` payloads (strict
providers reject tool_calls the reference never produced), so the agent's
actions are flattened to text the reference can read and reason about.
"""
lines: list[str] = []
for tc in tool_calls or []:
fn = (tc.get("function") or {}) if isinstance(tc, dict) else {}
name = fn.get("name") or (tc.get("name") if isinstance(tc, dict) else "") or "tool"
args = fn.get("arguments")
if isinstance(args, str):
args_text = args
elif args is not None:
try:
import json
args_text = json.dumps(args, ensure_ascii=False)
except Exception:
args_text = str(args)
else:
args_text = ""
lines.append(f"[called tool: {name}({args_text})]" if args_text else f"[called tool: {name}]")
return "\n".join(lines)
_ADVISORY_INSTRUCTION = (
"[The conversation above is the current state of the task. Give your "
"most intelligent judgement: what is going on, what should happen next, "
"what risks or mistakes you see, and how the acting agent should "
"proceed.]"
)
def _reference_messages(messages: list[dict[str, Any]]) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Build an advisory view of the conversation for reference models.
A reference gives an INFORMED judgement on the current state, so it must
see what the agent actually did — its tool calls AND the tool results that
came back — not just the agent's narration. We therefore preserve the whole
conversation flow, but flatten it into clean user/assistant *text* turns:
- system prompt: dropped (8K of Hermes boilerplate, not advisory signal).
- assistant turns: kept; any ``tool_calls`` are rendered inline as
``[called tool: name(args)]`` text lines appended to the turn's text.
- ``tool``-role results: NOT dropped. Each is folded (head+tail preview,
see ``_truncate_tool_result``) into the *preceding* assistant turn as a
``[tool result: ...]`` block, so the reference sees what came back.
This emits ZERO ``tool``-role messages and ZERO ``tool_calls`` arrays — only
plain user/assistant text — so strict providers (Mistral, Fireworks) that
reject orphan tool messages / unproduced tool_calls don't 400, while the
reference still has the full picture.
The view MUST end with a ``user`` turn. Anthropic (and OpenRouter→Anthropic)
interpret a trailing assistant turn as an assistant *prefill* to continue,
and no-prefill models (e.g. Claude Opus 4.8) reject it with
``400 ... must end with a user message``. Rather than DELETE the agent's
latest context to satisfy that (which would blind the reference to the
current state), we APPEND a synthetic user turn asking the reference to
judge the state above. End-on-user is satisfied and no context is lost.
The acting aggregator always receives the full, untrimmed transcript; this
function only shapes the disposable advisory copy.
"""
rendered: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
last_user_content: str | None = None
for msg in messages:
role = msg.get("role")
content = msg.get("content")
# Flatten structured content (lists of parts) to visible text. Content
# arrives as a list — not a string — in two common cases:
# 1. Anthropic prompt-cache decoration: conversation_loop runs
# apply_anthropic_cache_control BEFORE the MoA facade, converting
# string content to [{"type": "text", "text": ..., "cache_control":
# ...}]. A str-only read here flattened the user's ENTIRE prompt to
# "" — Claude references then 400'd ("messages: at least one
# message is required") while tolerant models answered "no user
# request is present".
# 2. Multimodal turns (pasted image → text + image_url parts) and
# multimodal tool results (screenshots).
# flatten_message_text extracts the text parts and skips image parts,
# and returns strings unchanged — so a decorated and an undecorated
# transcript produce a byte-identical advisory view (which keeps the
# advisory prefix stable across iterations for advisor prompt caching).
text = flatten_message_text(content)
if role == "system":
continue
if role == "user":
if not text.strip() and isinstance(content, list) and content:
# Structured content with no extractable text (e.g. an
# image-only turn). Emitting an empty user message would be
# dropped/rejected by strict providers (Anthropic 400s on
# empty text blocks — the original "closed" preset failure
# mode), and silently skipping the turn would break
# user/assistant alternation in the advisory view. Substitute
# a placeholder so the reference knows a non-text turn
# happened. Only structured content qualifies — an empty or
# whitespace-only STRING turn carries nothing and is dropped
# below instead.
text = "[user sent non-text content (e.g. an image attachment)]"
if not text.strip():
# Genuinely empty user turn (content="" / None). It carries
# nothing advisory, and strict providers (Kimi/Moonshot, ZAI,
# and others that enforce non-empty user content) reject it
# with 400 "message ... with role 'user' must not be empty" —
# the same way the assistant branch below drops turns with no
# parts. Lenient providers (DeepSeek) accept the empty turn,
# which is why a MoA fan-out would fail on one reference and
# pass on another for the identical rendered view. The
# advisory view is already not strictly alternating (adjacent
# assistant turns occur in every tool loop), so dropping a
# contentless turn is safe.
continue
last_user_content = text
rendered.append({"role": "user", "content": text})
elif role == "assistant":
parts: list[str] = []
if text.strip():
parts.append(text.strip())
calls_text = _render_tool_calls(msg.get("tool_calls"))
if calls_text:
parts.append(calls_text)
# Empty assistant turns (no text, no calls) carry nothing advisory.
if parts:
rendered.append({"role": "assistant", "content": "\n".join(parts)})
elif role == "tool":
# Fold the tool result into the preceding assistant turn as text so
# the reference sees what came back, without emitting a tool-role
# message a reference never produced.
result_text = _truncate_tool_result(text)
block = f"[tool result: {result_text}]"
if rendered and rendered[-1].get("role") == "assistant":
rendered[-1]["content"] = rendered[-1]["content"] + "\n" + block
else:
# No assistant turn to attach to (e.g. a leading tool result);
# keep it as advisory context on its own assistant-role line.
rendered.append({"role": "assistant", "content": block})
# Any other role is ignored.
# End on a user turn: append a synthetic advisory request rather than
# deleting the agent's latest assistant context. This satisfies Anthropic's
# no-trailing-assistant-prefill rule while preserving full state.
if rendered and rendered[-1].get("role") == "assistant":
rendered.append({"role": "user", "content": _ADVISORY_INSTRUCTION})
elif rendered and rendered[-1].get("role") == "user":
# Already ends on a user turn (fresh user prompt, no agent action yet).
# Leave it — the reference answers that prompt directly.
pass
if not rendered:
# Degenerate case: nothing rendered. Fall back to the latest user turn.
if last_user_content is not None:
return [{"role": "user", "content": last_user_content}]
for msg in reversed(messages):
if msg.get("role") == "user":
fallback_text = flatten_message_text(msg.get("content"))
if fallback_text.strip():
return [{"role": "user", "content": fallback_text}]
return rendered
def _extract_text(response: Any) -> str:
try:
transport = get_transport("chat_completions")
if transport is None:
raise RuntimeError("chat_completions transport unavailable")
normalized = transport.normalize_response(response)
text = (normalized.content or "").strip()
if text:
return text
except Exception:
pass
try:
message = response.choices[0].message
if isinstance(message, dict):
content = message.get("content")
else:
content = getattr(message, "content", message)
if not isinstance(content, str):
content = str(content) if content else ""
return content.strip()
except Exception:
return ""
def _preset_temperature(preset: dict[str, Any], key: str) -> float | None:
"""Read an optional temperature from a preset.
Returns None when the key is absent, empty, or explicitly null — meaning
"don't send temperature; let the provider default apply", exactly like a
single-model Hermes agent (which never sends temperature unless
configured). The old coercion ``float(preset.get(key, 0.6) or 0.6)``
made unset impossible: absent, null, and even 0 all collapsed to the
hardcoded default, so MoA advisors/aggregator always ran at 0.6/0.4
while the same model running solo used the provider default.
"""
value = preset.get(key)
if value is None or (isinstance(value, str) and not value.strip()):
return None
try:
return float(value)
except (TypeError, ValueError):
logger.warning("ignoring non-numeric %s=%r in MoA preset", key, value)
return None
def _is_failed_reference(text: str) -> bool:
"""Return whether a reference output is an internal failure/skip sentinel.
Covers both the ``[failed: …]`` notes produced when a reference call
raises (which may embed raw provider error text) and the
``[skipped: …]`` recursion-guard notes — neither is real advice, so
neither belongs in the aggregator prompt.
"""
sentinel = text.lstrip().lower()
return sentinel.startswith("[failed:") or sentinel.startswith("[skipped:")
def _successful_references(
reference_outputs: list[tuple[str, str, Any]],
) -> list[tuple[str, str, Any]]:
"""Filter failed advice while preserving each accounting payload."""
return [output for output in reference_outputs if not _is_failed_reference(output[1])]
def _failed_reference_labels(
reference_outputs: list[tuple[str, str, Any]],
) -> list[str]:
return [label for label, text, _accounting in reference_outputs if _is_failed_reference(text)]
def _degraded_notice(failed_labels: list[str], policy: str) -> str:
if not failed_labels or policy.strip().lower() == "silent":
return ""
return f"[Reference models unavailable: {', '.join(failed_labels)}]"
def aggregate_moa_context(
*,
user_prompt: str,
api_messages: list[dict[str, Any]],
reference_models: list[dict[str, Any]],
aggregator: dict[str, Any],
temperature: float | None = None,
aggregator_temperature: float | None = None,
reference_max_tokens: int | None = None,
reference_timeout: float | None = None,
degraded_reference_policy: str = "loud",
agent: Any = None,
) -> str:
"""Run configured reference models and synthesize their advice.
Failures are returned as model-specific notes instead of aborting the normal
agent loop; the main model can still act with partial context.
``reference_max_tokens`` applies ONLY to the reference fan-out — the
aggregator's own synthesis call is never capped, so it always uses its
model's own maximum. ``call_llm`` omits the parameter entirely when it
is ``None`` (see its docstring), which also sidesteps providers that
reject ``max_tokens`` outright. A hardcoded cap on the aggregator call
previously truncated long aggregator syntheses (#53580) — passing
``reference_max_tokens`` to both calls here would silently reintroduce
that regression.
``temperature`` / ``aggregator_temperature`` are ``None`` by default:
like ``reference_max_tokens``, ``call_llm`` omits temperature when None
so the provider default applies — matching single-model agent behavior.
Presets may still pin explicit values.
``agent``, when passed, lets the reference fan-out be aborted early on a
user interrupt — see ``_run_references_parallel``'s docstring.
"""
reference_models = [slot for slot in reference_models if slot.get("enabled", True)]
reference_outputs: list[tuple[str, str, Any]] = []
ref_messages = _reference_messages(api_messages)
reference_outputs = _run_references_parallel(
reference_models,
ref_messages,
temperature=temperature,
max_tokens=reference_max_tokens,
reference_timeout=reference_timeout,
agent=agent,
)
successful_outputs = _successful_references(reference_outputs)
failed_labels = _failed_reference_labels(reference_outputs)
# 'full' privacy mode (moa.privacy_filter) also covers this one-shot /moa
# synthesis path: advisor text is redacted before it reaches the
# synthesizing aggregator. 'display' does not apply here — this path has
# no user-visible reference blocks or trace records of its own. Redaction
# runs on the successful outputs only (failed refs are already filtered
# into the degraded notice).
try:
from hermes_cli.config import load_config as _load_config
if _moa_privacy_mode((_load_config() or {}).get("moa")) == "full":
successful_outputs = _redact_reference_outputs(successful_outputs)
except Exception: # pragma: no cover - privacy filter must never break a turn
logger.debug("MoA privacy filter check failed", exc_info=True)
joined = "\n\n".join(
f"Reference {idx}{label}:\n{text}"
for idx, (label, text, _accounting) in enumerate(successful_outputs, start=1)
)
degraded = _degraded_notice(failed_labels, degraded_reference_policy)
if degraded:
joined = f"{joined}\n\n{degraded}" if joined else degraded
# Skip the aggregator call when every reference failed or was skipped —
# synthesising over zero real advice wastes tokens and can block for the
# full provider timeout (observed: ~6 min on SenseNova) before returning
# a non-retryable error that leaves the session hanging. The early return
# carries only the sanitized unavailability notice (never raw provider
# error text) so the main agent loop can still act in single-model mode.
if reference_outputs and not successful_outputs:
logger.warning(
"MoA: all %d reference(s) failed — skipping aggregator synthesis",
len(reference_outputs),
)
notice = degraded or "[Reference models unavailable]"
return (
"[Mixture of Agents context — all reference models failed. "
"Proceeding without aggregated guidance.]\n"
f"References: {', '.join(_slot_label(slot) for slot in reference_models)}\n\n"
f"{notice}"
)
synth_prompt = (
"You are the aggregator in a Mixture of Agents process. Synthesize the "
"reference responses into concise, actionable guidance for the main "
"Hermes agent. Focus on next steps, tool-use strategy, risks, and any "
"disagreements. Do not answer the user directly unless that is all that "
"is needed; produce context the main agent should use in its normal loop.\n\n"
f"Original user prompt:\n{user_prompt}\n\n"
f"Reference responses:\n{joined}"
)
agg_label = _slot_label(aggregator)
agg_runtime = _slot_runtime(aggregator)
try:
# Same cache_control decoration as _run_reference's advisor calls
# (see _maybe_apply_moa_cache_control) — this synthesis call is a
# third, independent MoA call path that 22c5048d9 did not cover (it
# only restored caching for the acting-aggregator turn in the
# persistent `provider: moa` model and for advisor fan-out). Without
# it, the one-shot `/moa <prompt>` command's synthesis call re-bills
# its full input (system-less prompt containing every joined
# reference output) on every invocation with zero cache_control
# breakpoints, even when the resolved aggregator slot is a
# cache-honoring route (e.g. Claude on OpenRouter/native Anthropic).
agg_messages = _maybe_apply_moa_cache_control(
[{"role": "user", "content": synth_prompt}], agg_runtime
)
response = call_llm(
task="moa_aggregator",
messages=agg_messages,
temperature=aggregator_temperature,
reasoning_config=_aggregator_reasoning_config(aggregator),
**agg_runtime,
)
synthesis = _extract_text(response)
except Exception as exc:
logger.warning("MoA aggregator model %s failed: %s", agg_label, exc)
synthesis = ""
if not synthesis:
synthesis = joined
return (
"[Mixture of Agents context — use this as private guidance for the "
"normal Hermes agent loop. You may call tools, continue reasoning, or "
"finish normally.]\n"
f"Aggregator: {agg_label}\n"
f"References: {', '.join(_slot_label(slot) for slot in reference_models)}\n\n"
f"{synthesis.strip()}"
)
def _attach_reference_guidance(agg_messages: list[dict[str, Any]], guidance: str) -> None:
"""Attach the per-turn reference block at the END of the aggregator prompt.
The reference text differs on every tool-loop iteration. In an agentic loop
the most recent ``user`` message is the *original task* sitting near the TOP
of the context (everything after it is assistant/tool turns), so merging the
turn-varying reference block into it diverges the prompt prefix early — the
server's KV cache cannot be reused and the entire conversation re-prefills on
every step (full prefill each tool call, dominating latency on long contexts).
Appending at the very end keeps the ``[system][task][tool-history]`` prefix
stable and cache-reusable (only the new block re-prefills), and gives the
aggregator the references with recency. Merge into the last message only when
it is already a trailing ``user`` turn (plain chat — still at the end).
A trailing user turn's content may be a STRING or a LIST of content parts —
Anthropic prompt-cache decoration (which runs before the MoA facade)
converts string content to ``[{"type": "text", ..., "cache_control": ...}]``,
and multimodal turns are lists natively. Both shapes are merged in place:
appending a new text part AFTER the cache_control-marked part keeps the
cached prefix byte-stable (the marker still terminates it) while the
turn-varying guidance rides outside the cached span. Appending a SEPARATE
user message here instead would produce two consecutive user turns —
strict providers reject that.
"""
last = agg_messages[-1] if agg_messages else None
if last is not None and last.get("role") == "user":
last_content = last.get("content")
if isinstance(last_content, str):
last["content"] = last_content + "\n\n" + guidance
return
if isinstance(last_content, list):
last["content"] = [*last_content, {"type": "text", "text": "\n\n" + guidance}]
return
agg_messages.append({"role": "user", "content": guidance})
class MoAChatCompletions:
"""OpenAI-chat-compatible facade where the aggregator is the acting model."""
def __init__(self, preset_name: str, reference_callback: Any = None, agent: Any = None):
self.preset_name = preset_name or "default"
# Optional display hook. Called as reference outputs become available so
# frontends can show each reference model's answer as a labelled block
# before the aggregator acts. Signature:
# reference_callback(event, **kwargs)
# where event is one of:
# "moa.reference" kwargs: index, count, label, text
# "moa.progress" kwargs: refs_done, refs_total, label
# (fired once per reference completion — drives
# status-bar progress like ``MOA: 2/3 refs done``)
# "moa.phase" kwargs: phase, refs_done, refs_total, aggregator
# (fired on phase transitions, currently
# phase="aggregator" right before the aggregator
# acts; phase="reference" mirrors ``moa.progress``
# so listeners can rely on a single event family)
# "moa.aggregating" kwargs: aggregator (label), ref_count
# Never raises into the model call — display is best-effort.
self.reference_callback = reference_callback
# Back-reference to the owning AIAgent, so the reference fan-out can
# check agent._interrupt_requested (see _run_references_parallel).
# Optional — a caller that doesn't pass it just keeps the fan-out
# uninterruptible, as it was before.
self._agent = agent
# State-scoped reference cache. The agent loop calls create() once per
# tool-loop iteration; references should re-run whenever the task STATE
# advances — i.e. on every new user message AND every new tool result —
# so each reference judges the latest state. The advisory view
# (_reference_messages) now renders tool calls + results as text, so its
# signature changes on every new tool response; the cache key is that
# signature, so a new tool result is a cache MISS (references re-run)
# while a redundant create() call with identical state is a HIT (no
# re-run, no re-emit). This gives "fire on every user/tool response"
# for free, without re-firing on a pure no-op re-call.
self._ref_cache_key: tuple | None = None
self._ref_cache_outputs: list[tuple[str, str, Any]] = []
# Token usage + estimated cost of the reference fan-out from the most
# recent cache-MISS create() call, awaiting consumption by session
# accounting. Set on every create() (zeroed on a cache HIT so per-turn
# advisor spend is counted exactly once). Consumed via
# ``consume_reference_usage``.
from agent.usage_pricing import CanonicalUsage
self._pending_reference_usage: Any = CanonicalUsage()
self._pending_reference_cost: Any = None
# Guards pending usage/cost against concurrent late-accounting
# callbacks (see _record_late_reference_accounting), which fire on
# executor worker threads after an interrupted fan-out returns.
self._accounting_lock = threading.Lock()
# Resolved aggregator slot ({provider, model, ...}) from the most recent
# create(); read by session cost accounting to price the aggregator's
# acting turn at its real model instead of the virtual preset name.
self.last_aggregator_slot: Any = None
# Full-turn trace parts stashed on a cache-MISS create(), awaiting the
# caller to stitch in the live session_id + resolved aggregator output
# and flush to the trace file (only when moa.save_traces is on).
self._pending_trace: Any = None
# every_n fan-out cadence state. The iteration counter is scoped to a
# single USER TURN (not the facade lifetime): it counts create() calls
# since the last new user message and resets whenever the user-turn
# signature changes, so cadence position never leaks across turns —
# iteration 1 of every turn is always on-cadence (fresh advice for a
# fresh request). See the fanout handling in create().
self._fanout_iteration_count = 0
self._fanout_turn_sig: str | None = None
self._fanout_last_state_sig: str | None = None
# Normalized moa.privacy_filter mode for the current turn ('' |
# 'display' | 'full'), refreshed from config on every create().
self._privacy_mode: str = ""
def consume_reference_usage(self) -> tuple[Any, Any]:
"""Pop pending reference-fan-out usage + cost, resetting both to empty.
Returns ``(CanonicalUsage, cost_usd_or_None)`` for the most recent
``create()`` and clears the pending values, so a subsequent read (e.g.
a streaming retry re-entering accounting) cannot double-count. Usage is
always a ``CanonicalUsage`` (zeroed if none); cost is a summed-dollars
float or ``None`` when no advisor could be priced.
"""
from agent.usage_pricing import CanonicalUsage
with self._accounting_lock:
usage = self._pending_reference_usage or CanonicalUsage()
cost = self._pending_reference_cost
self._pending_reference_usage = CanonicalUsage()
self._pending_reference_cost = None
return usage, cost
def _record_late_reference_accounting(self, label: str, accounting: Any) -> None:
"""Fold a late-completing interrupted reference's real spend in.
When a user interrupt aborts the fan-out wait, references already in
flight keep running (they cannot be force-killed) and DO bill when
they complete. Their placeholder results carry zeroed accounting, so
without this hook that spend would vanish from session accounting.
The fan-out registers this as a done-callback on abandoned futures;
it folds the eventual real usage/cost into the pending totals, where
the next ``consume_reference_usage`` pick-up records it. Thread-safe:
done-callbacks fire on executor worker threads.
"""
from agent.usage_pricing import CanonicalUsage
if not isinstance(accounting, _RefAccounting):
return
with self._accounting_lock:
if isinstance(accounting.usage, CanonicalUsage):
self._pending_reference_usage = (
self._pending_reference_usage or CanonicalUsage()
) + accounting.usage
if accounting.cost_usd is not None:
self._pending_reference_cost = (
self._pending_reference_cost or 0
) + accounting.cost_usd
logger.debug(
"MoA: recorded late accounting for interrupted reference %s", label
)
def consume_and_save_trace(
self, session_id: Any = None, aggregator_output_fallback: Any = None
) -> None:
"""Flush the pending full-turn trace to disk, if one is pending.
No-op when tracing is off (``save_moa_turn`` checks the config), when
there is no pending trace (a cache-HIT iteration ran no references), or
when the aggregator input was never recorded. Clears the pending trace
so a repeat consume cannot double-write. Best-effort — never raises.
``aggregator_output_fallback`` is the aggregator's resolved acting text
as the caller already holds it in memory (the streamed assistant text).
On the streaming path the aggregator's output could not be captured
inline at ``create()`` time (the raw token stream was handed to the live
consumer), so ``pending["aggregator_output"]`` is None; we fold the
caller's resolved text in here so the trace is self-contained in BOTH
streaming and non-streaming modes. Non-streaming already has the inline
output and ignores the fallback.
"""
pending = self._pending_trace
self._pending_trace = None
if not pending or "aggregator_input_messages" not in pending:
return
try:
from agent.moa_trace import save_moa_turn
agg_slot = pending.get("aggregator_slot") or {}
# Prefer the inline capture (non-streaming); fall back to the
# caller's resolved streamed text when streaming left it None.
agg_output = pending.get("aggregator_output")
if agg_output is None and aggregator_output_fallback:
agg_output = aggregator_output_fallback
save_moa_turn(
session_id=session_id,
preset_name=pending.get("preset", ""),
reference_outputs=pending.get("reference_outputs", []),
aggregator_label=pending.get("aggregator_label", ""),
aggregator_model=agg_slot.get("model"),
aggregator_provider=agg_slot.get("provider"),
aggregator_temperature=pending.get("aggregator_temperature"),
aggregator_input_messages=pending.get("aggregator_input_messages"),
aggregator_output=agg_output,
aggregator_streamed=bool(pending.get("aggregator_streamed")),
)
except Exception as exc: # pragma: no cover - tracing must never break a turn
logger.debug("MoA trace flush failed: %s", exc)
def _emit(self, event: str, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
cb = self.reference_callback
if cb is None:
return
try:
cb(event, **kwargs)
except Exception as exc: # pragma: no cover - display must never break the turn
logger.debug("MoA reference_callback failed for %s: %s", event, exc)
def prepare(self, messages: list[dict[str, Any]]) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Run the advisor fan-out and return the exact aggregator request.
The normal agent loop needs to measure this augmented prompt before its
compression gate. ``create()`` also uses this method for direct callers;
when the loop supplies the returned private object back to ``create()``,
the advisor fan-out is not repeated.
"""
return self.create(messages=messages, _moa_prepare_only=True)
def rebase_prepared_request(
self, prepared: dict[str, Any], messages: list[dict[str, Any]]
) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Apply already-generated advisor guidance to a rebuilt API transcript.
Context compression changes the persisted transcript but not the
ephemeral advisor result. Reusing the guidance avoids a second costly
fan-out while keeping the aggregator request aligned with the compacted
history.
"""
guidance = prepared.get("guidance")
agg_messages = [dict(message) for message in messages]
if guidance:
_attach_reference_guidance(agg_messages, str(guidance))
return {**prepared, "messages": agg_messages}
def _call_prepared_aggregator(
self, prepared: dict[str, Any], api_kwargs: dict[str, Any]
) -> Any:
"""Send an already prepared MoA aggregator request exactly once."""
agg_messages = prepared["messages"]
aggregator = prepared["aggregator"]
aggregator_temperature = prepared["aggregator_temperature"]
if aggregator.get("provider") == "moa":
raise RuntimeError("MoA aggregator cannot be another MoA preset")
agg_kwargs = dict(api_kwargs)
max_tokens: Any = agg_kwargs.get("max_tokens")
tools: Any = agg_kwargs.get("tools")
extra_body: Any = agg_kwargs.get("extra_body")
# Record the exact aggregator INPUT (incl. the injected reference
# context) into the pending trace so a trace captures what the
# aggregator actually saw, not a reconstruction. Traces are a
# persisted surface: when the privacy filter is active, the stored
# COPY is redacted ('display' mode's live aggregator input stays raw —
# only the on-disk record is filtered; 'full' mode's input is already
# redacted upstream, so this is a near no-op there).
if self._pending_trace is not None:
self._pending_trace["aggregator_input_messages"] = (
_redact_trace_messages([dict(m) for m in agg_messages])
if getattr(self, "_privacy_mode", "")
else agg_messages
)
self._pending_trace["aggregator_label"] = _slot_label(aggregator)
# The aggregator is the acting model. Resolve its slot to the provider's
# real runtime (base_url/api_key/api_mode) and call it through the same
# request-building path any model uses — so per-model wire-format
# handling (anthropic_messages, max_completion_tokens, fixed/forbidden
# temperature) applies identically to it. MoA imposes no output cap:
# max_tokens is passed through from the caller (normally None → omitted
# → the model's real maximum). The preset's old hardcoded 4096 default
# is gone — it truncated long syntheses.
# When the agent's streaming consumer calls us with stream=True, run the
# references first (above) and then return the aggregator's RAW token
# stream so the acting model's output reaches the user live. The consumer
# reassembles chunks + tool_calls, runs stale-stream detection, and falls
# back to a non-streaming retry on error. The non-streaming path
# (stream=False) is unchanged — no stream/stream_options/timeout are
# forwarded, so its behavior is byte-for-byte identical to before.
stream = bool(api_kwargs.get("stream"))
stream_kwargs: dict[str, Any] = {}
if stream:
stream_kwargs["stream"] = True
stream_kwargs["stream_options"] = (
api_kwargs.get("stream_options") or {"include_usage": True}
)
# Forward the consumer's per-request (stream read) timeout so it
# actually governs the aggregator stream, not just call_llm's default.
if api_kwargs.get("timeout") is not None:
stream_kwargs["timeout"] = api_kwargs["timeout"]
agg_runtime = _slot_runtime(aggregator)
# _slot_runtime may carry the provider's request_overrides.extra_body;
# pop it and merge with the caller's extra_body (caller wins) so the
# explicit kwarg below never collides with **agg_runtime.
agg_extra_body = _merge_slot_extra_body(
agg_runtime.pop("extra_body", None),
extra_body,
)
_agg_response = call_llm(
task="moa_aggregator",
messages=agg_messages,
temperature=aggregator_temperature,
max_tokens=max_tokens,
tools=tools,
extra_body=agg_extra_body,
# Prepared requests must retain the acting aggregator's reasoning
# policy exactly as the direct create() path does (#64187).
reasoning_config=_aggregator_reasoning_config(aggregator),
**stream_kwargs,
**agg_runtime,
)
# Non-streaming path (quiet mode / eval / subagents): the aggregator
# output is available inline, so capture it into the pending trace now.
# Streaming path: the aggregator's raw token stream is returned to the
# consumer live and its acting output lands as the turn's assistant
# message; the trace marks it streamed and points there.
if self._pending_trace is not None:
if stream:
self._pending_trace["aggregator_streamed"] = True
self._pending_trace["aggregator_output"] = None
else:
self._pending_trace["aggregator_streamed"] = False
try:
self._pending_trace["aggregator_output"] = _extract_text(_agg_response)
except Exception: # pragma: no cover - defensive
self._pending_trace["aggregator_output"] = None
return _agg_response
def create(self, **api_kwargs: Any) -> Any:
prepared_request = api_kwargs.pop("_moa_prepared_request", None)
if prepared_request is not None:
if not isinstance(prepared_request, dict):
raise TypeError("_moa_prepared_request must be a dict")
return self._call_prepared_aggregator(prepared_request, api_kwargs)
from hermes_cli.config import load_config
from hermes_cli.moa_config import resolve_moa_preset
_moa_raw = load_config().get("moa") or {}
preset = resolve_moa_preset(_moa_raw, self.preset_name)
# Privacy filter mode: '' (off, default) | 'display' | 'full'. See
# coerce_privacy_filter / the pattern block at the top of this module.
# Remembered on self so _call_prepared_aggregator (which may run on a
# later prepared-request call without re-reading config) redacts the
# trace's aggregator input consistently with this turn's fan-out.
privacy_mode = _moa_privacy_mode(_moa_raw)
self._privacy_mode = privacy_mode
messages = list(api_kwargs.get("messages") or [])
reference_models = [
slot for slot in (preset.get("reference_models") or [])
if slot.get("enabled", True)
]
aggregator = preset.get("aggregator") or {}
# Expose the resolved aggregator slot so session cost accounting can
# price the aggregator's acting turn at its REAL model/provider. The
# agent's model/provider on the MoA path are the virtual preset name
# ("closed") and "moa", which have no pricing entry — without this the
# aggregator's spend (often the bulk of the turn) is silently dropped
# and the session cost reflects advisor fan-out only.
self.last_aggregator_slot = dict(aggregator) if aggregator else None
# By default MoA does not cap reference or aggregator output: each model
# uses its own maximum (max_tokens=None → call_llm omits the parameter,
# so a long aggregator synthesis is never truncated and providers that
# reject max_tokens don't 400). A preset MAY set reference_max_tokens to
# cap ADVISOR output only — advisor generation is the dominant MoA
# latency (turn latency correlates ~0.88 with output tokens), and the
# aggregator only needs the gist of each advisor's judgement, so a cap
# (e.g. 600) measurably cuts per-turn wall time (~44% on a sample task).
# The acting aggregator is never capped here (its output is the
# user-visible answer).
reference_max_tokens = preset.get("reference_max_tokens")
# None (the default) = don't send temperature; provider default
# applies, matching single-model agent behavior. Presets may pin
# explicit values. See _preset_temperature.
temperature = _preset_temperature(preset, "reference_temperature")
aggregator_temperature = _preset_temperature(preset, "aggregator_temperature")
# None (the default) = no per-preset override; the fan-out inherits
# auxiliary.moa_reference.timeout (900s default) via call_llm's own
# per-task timeout resolution. Explicit per-preset values are honored.
raw_reference_timeout = preset.get("reference_timeout")
reference_timeout = (
float(raw_reference_timeout) if raw_reference_timeout else None
)
degraded_reference_policy = str(
preset.get("degraded_reference_policy") or "loud"
)
if aggregator_temperature is None and api_kwargs.get("temperature") is not None:
# The acting agent's own configured temperature (if any) still
# applies to the aggregator, which IS the acting model.
aggregator_temperature = api_kwargs.get("temperature")
# When the preset is disabled, skip the reference fan-out and let the
# configured aggregator act alone — it is the preset's acting model, so
# a disabled MoA preset is simply "use the aggregator directly."
if not preset.get("enabled", True):
reference_models = []
from agent.usage_pricing import CanonicalUsage
reference_outputs: list[tuple[str, str, Any]] = []
ref_messages = _reference_messages(messages)
# Fan-out cadence. "per_iteration" (default): advisors re-run whenever
# the advisory view changes — i.e. every tool iteration, since the
# view grows with each tool result. "user_turn": advisors run ONCE per
# user turn; subsequent tool iterations reuse that turn's advice and
# the aggregator acts alone (the original MoA shape: synthesize at the
# start, then let the acting model work). Implemented by hashing only
# the prefix up to the LAST USER message so mid-turn growth doesn't
# change the signature — iteration 2+ becomes a cache HIT.
# "every_n:<N>" (N >= 2): the middle ground (issue #63393 — advisor
# fan-out multiplies latency/cost by the tool-iteration count).
# Advisors run on iteration 1 of a user turn and then every Nth tool
# iteration; the iterations in between REUSE the cached guidance from
# the last on-cadence run (same mechanism as user_turn's cache HIT —
# the aggregator still gets advice every iteration, it's just not
# refreshed against the very latest tool results). The iteration
# counter is scoped per user turn and resets on a new user message,
# so every turn starts with fresh advice.
fanout_mode = str(preset.get("fanout") or "per_iteration").strip().lower()
every_n = 0
if fanout_mode.startswith("every_n:"):
try:
every_n = int(fanout_mode.split(":", 1)[1])
except (TypeError, ValueError):
every_n = 0
if every_n < 2:
# Unparseable / degenerate cadence degrades to the default,
# mirroring _coerce_fanout's tolerant-read contract.
fanout_mode = "per_iteration"
sig_messages = ref_messages
turn_prefix = ref_messages
if fanout_mode in ("user_turn",) or every_n >= 2:
# Find the last REAL user message. The advisory view appends a
# synthetic user marker (_ADVISORY_INSTRUCTION) when it ends on an
# assistant turn — i.e. on every tool iteration after the first —
# so that marker must not count as a user turn or the prefix
# would include the grown mid-turn context and the signature
# would change every iteration (defeating the once-per-turn
# cadence entirely).
last_user_idx = None
for _i in range(len(ref_messages) - 1, -1, -1):
_m = ref_messages[_i]
if _m.get("role") == "user" and _m.get("content") != _ADVISORY_INSTRUCTION:
last_user_idx = _i
break
if last_user_idx is not None:
turn_prefix = ref_messages[: last_user_idx + 1]
if fanout_mode == "user_turn":
sig_messages = turn_prefix
def _hash_messages(msgs: list[dict[str, Any]]) -> str:
return hashlib.sha256(
"\u0000".join(
f"{m.get('role')}:{m.get('content')}" for m in msgs
).encode("utf-8", "replace")
).hexdigest()
# every_n cadence bookkeeping: advance the per-turn iteration counter
# only when the advisory STATE actually advanced (a redundant create()
# with identical state — e.g. a streaming retry — must not consume a
# cadence slot), and reset it whenever the user-turn prefix changes.
_every_n_reuse = False
if every_n >= 2:
_turn_sig = _hash_messages(turn_prefix)
if _turn_sig != self._fanout_turn_sig:
self._fanout_turn_sig = _turn_sig
self._fanout_iteration_count = 0
self._fanout_last_state_sig = None
_state_sig = _hash_messages(ref_messages)
if _state_sig != self._fanout_last_state_sig:
self._fanout_last_state_sig = _state_sig
self._fanout_iteration_count += 1
# Iteration 1 is on-cadence; then every Nth iteration after it.
_on_cadence = (self._fanout_iteration_count - 1) % every_n == 0
_every_n_reuse = not _on_cadence and bool(self._ref_cache_outputs)
# Turn-scoped cache: only run + display references when the advisory
# view changed (i.e. a new user turn). Within one turn the agent loop
# calls create() once per tool iteration; in user_turn mode the
# signature is stable across those iterations (prefix hash above), so
# the fan-out runs once per user turn and iterations reuse the advice.
_sig = _hash_messages(sig_messages)
_cache_key = (self.preset_name, _sig, tuple(_slot_label(s) for s in reference_models))
if _every_n_reuse:
# Off-cadence every_n iteration: pin the key to the last
# on-cadence run so the lookup below is a HIT and its guidance is
# reused (no advisor calls, no double accounting, no re-emit) —
# exactly the user_turn cache-HIT path. When the cache is empty
# (defensive; a new turn resets the counter to on-cadence) the
# flag above stays False and the references run normally.
_cache_key = self._ref_cache_key
_refs_from_cache = _cache_key == self._ref_cache_key and bool(self._ref_cache_outputs)
if _refs_from_cache:
reference_outputs = list(self._ref_cache_outputs)
# References already ran (and were accounted) earlier this turn;
# this create() is a repeat tool-iteration reusing the cached
# advice. Charging their tokens/cost again here would multiply
# advisor spend by the tool-iteration count, so nothing new is
# deposited — but do NOT zero the pending totals: a
# late-completing interrupted reference may have deposited its
# real spend since the last consume(), and that must survive
# until the next consume_reference_usage() pick-up.
# Likewise no trace on a cache HIT — the full turn was already
# traced on the MISS that ran the references. A repeat iteration is
# not a new MoA turn.
self._pending_trace = None
else:
# Per-reference progress callback: emits ``moa.progress`` so
# listeners can render ``MOA: N/M refs done`` in the status bar as
# each reference completes. The callback is bound to self so it
# goes through the same display hook as the existing
# ``moa.reference`` / ``moa.aggregating`` events.
def _progress(done: int, total: int, label: str) -> None:
self._emit(
"moa.progress",
refs_done=done,
refs_total=total,
label=label,
)
reference_outputs = _run_references_parallel(
reference_models,
ref_messages,
temperature=temperature,
max_tokens=reference_max_tokens,
progress_callback=_progress,
reference_timeout=reference_timeout,
agent=self._agent,
late_accounting_sink=self._record_late_reference_accounting,
)
interrupted_any = any(
text == _INTERRUPTED_REFERENCE_NOTE
for _lbl, text, _acct in reference_outputs
)
if interrupted_any:
# An interrupted fan-out is a partial snapshot, not real
# advice for this state. Caching it would replay the
# placeholder notes on every subsequent iteration of the
# turn (a cache HIT never re-runs the references), so leave
# the cache empty and let the next create() re-run them.
self._ref_cache_key = None
self._ref_cache_outputs = []
else:
self._ref_cache_key = _cache_key
self._ref_cache_outputs = list(reference_outputs)
# Sum the advisor fan-out's token usage AND cost so the caller can
# fold advisor spend into session accounting exactly once per turn.
# Only the freshly run references (cache MISS) contribute; a cache
# HIT above zeroes this. Token counts sum directly (each already
# normalized per-advisor provider/api_mode); cost sums in dollars
# because each advisor was priced at its OWN model rate — advisors
# may be cheaper/pricier than the aggregator, so their tokens must
# NOT be repriced at the aggregator's rate.
_ref_usage = CanonicalUsage()
_ref_cost: Any = None
for _lbl, _txt, _acct in reference_outputs:
if isinstance(_acct, _RefAccounting):
if isinstance(_acct.usage, CanonicalUsage):
_ref_usage = _ref_usage + _acct.usage
if _acct.cost_usd is not None:
_ref_cost = (_ref_cost or 0) + _acct.cost_usd
with self._accounting_lock:
# Fold (don't overwrite): a late-completing interrupted
# reference from a PREVIOUS turn may have deposited its real
# spend here between consume() calls — keep it.
self._pending_reference_usage = (
self._pending_reference_usage or CanonicalUsage()
) + _ref_usage
if _ref_cost is not None:
self._pending_reference_cost = (
self._pending_reference_cost or 0
) + _ref_cost
# Stash the full reference fan-out for trace persistence. The
# aggregator input/label are filled in below once agg_messages is
# built; the aggregator OUTPUT is stitched in by the caller
# (consume_and_save_trace) once the response resolves — the caller
# holds the live session_id and the resolved aggregator response.
# Traces are a persisted, user-readable surface, so ANY active
# privacy mode ('display' or 'full') redacts the advisor text and
# the full per-advisor input/output carried by _RefAccounting.
if privacy_mode:
_trace_refs = [
(label, _redact_reference_text(text), _redact_trace_accounting(acct))
for label, text, acct in reference_outputs
]
else:
_trace_refs = list(reference_outputs)
self._pending_trace = {
"preset": self.preset_name,
"reference_outputs": _trace_refs,
"aggregator_slot": aggregator,
"aggregator_temperature": aggregator_temperature,
}
# Surface each reference model's answer to the display BEFORE the
# aggregator acts — once per turn (only on the iteration that
# actually ran them). The user sees one labelled block per
# reference (rendered like a thinking block) so the MoA process is
# visible rather than a silent pause. Best-effort: never blocks the
# turn. Reference blocks are a user-visible surface: both privacy
# modes redact them (the cache keeps the RAW text — redaction
# always happens at the consuming surface, so a mid-session mode
# change never leaks or double-redacts).
_ref_count = len(reference_outputs)
for _idx, (_label, _text, _accounting) in enumerate(reference_outputs, start=1):
self._emit(
"moa.reference",
index=_idx,
count=_ref_count,
label=_label,
text=_redact_reference_text(_text) if privacy_mode else _text,
)
if _ref_count:
# Phase transition: reference fan-out is complete, the
# aggregator is about to act. Listeners that prefer a single
# event family for phase tracking can switch on ``phase``
# instead of subscribing to ``moa.aggregating`` separately.
self._emit(
"moa.phase",
phase="aggregator",
refs_done=_ref_count,
refs_total=_ref_count,
aggregator=_slot_label(aggregator),
)
self._emit(
"moa.aggregating",
aggregator=_slot_label(aggregator),
ref_count=_ref_count,
)
guidance: str | None = None
agg_messages = [dict(m) for m in messages]
successful_outputs = _successful_references(reference_outputs)
failed_labels = _failed_reference_labels(reference_outputs)
joined = ""
_agg_refs: list = []
if successful_outputs:
# 'full' privacy mode: redact the advisor text that reaches the
# AGGREGATOR too (issue #59959's literal ask). 'display' leaves
# the aggregator input raw so synthesis quality is unaffected.
# The redaction is applied to a per-call copy — the cache always
# holds raw advisor text (see the emit comment above). Failed
# refs are already filtered out; only successful advisor text is
# joined (and redacted when requested).
_agg_refs = (
_redact_reference_outputs(successful_outputs)
if privacy_mode == "full"
else successful_outputs
)
joined = "\n\n".join(
f"Reference {idx}{label}:\n{text}"
for idx, (label, text, _usage) in enumerate(_agg_refs, start=1)
)
degraded = _degraded_notice(failed_labels, degraded_reference_policy)
if reference_outputs and not successful_outputs:
# Every reference failed or was skipped: don't wrap a wall of
# failure sentinels in "use the reference responses below"
# guidance — the aggregator IS the acting model, so it simply
# acts alone this turn. Under the loud policy it still gets the
# sanitized unavailability notice so it can disclose degraded
# mode; under silent it gets nothing.
logger.warning(
"MoA: all %d reference(s) failed — acting aggregator-alone "
"without reference guidance",
len(reference_outputs),
)
if degraded:
guidance = (
"[Mixture of Agents reference context]\n"
f"Preset: {self.preset_name}\n"
f"Aggregator/acting model: {_slot_label(aggregator)}\n\n"
"All reference models failed this turn — no advisory "
"guidance is available. Act on your own judgment.\n\n"
f"{degraded}"
)
_attach_reference_guidance(agg_messages, guidance)
elif joined or degraded:
if degraded:
joined = f"{joined}\n\n{degraded}" if joined else degraded
guidance = (
"[Mixture of Agents reference context]\n"
f"Preset: {self.preset_name}\n"
f"Aggregator/acting model: {_slot_label(aggregator)}\n"
f"References: {', '.join(label for label, _, _ in _agg_refs)}\n\n"
"Use the reference responses below as private context. You are the aggregator and acting model: "
"answer the user directly or call tools as needed.\n\n"
f"{joined}"
)
_attach_reference_guidance(agg_messages, guidance)
prepared_request = {
"messages": agg_messages,
"guidance": guidance,
"aggregator": aggregator,
"aggregator_temperature": aggregator_temperature,
}
if api_kwargs.pop("_moa_prepare_only", False):
return prepared_request
return self._call_prepared_aggregator(prepared_request, api_kwargs)
class MoAClient:
def __init__(self, preset_name: str, reference_callback: Any = None, agent: Any = None):
self.chat = type("_MoAChat", (), {})()
self.chat.completions = MoAChatCompletions(
preset_name, reference_callback=reference_callback, agent=agent,
)
def consume_reference_usage(self) -> Any:
"""Pop the pending reference-fan-out usage from the completions facade.
Lets session accounting fold the MoA advisor tokens into the turn's
usage without reaching into ``.chat.completions`` internals.
"""
return self.chat.completions.consume_reference_usage()
@property
def last_aggregator_slot(self) -> Any:
"""Resolved aggregator slot ({provider, model, ...}) from the most
recent create(), or None. Read by session cost accounting to price the
aggregator's acting turn at its real model instead of the virtual
preset name."""
return getattr(self.chat.completions, "last_aggregator_slot", None)
def consume_and_save_trace(
self, session_id: Any = None, aggregator_output_fallback: Any = None
) -> None:
"""Flush the pending full-turn MoA trace via the completions facade.
No-op unless ``moa.save_traces`` is enabled and a turn is pending.
``aggregator_output_fallback`` supplies the resolved acting text so the
streaming path's trace is self-contained (see the facade docstring).
"""
return self.chat.completions.consume_and_save_trace(
session_id, aggregator_output_fallback=aggregator_output_fallback
)
def build_moa_facade(agent, preset_name: Any = None) -> MoAClient:
"""Build the MoA facade client for ``agent``, wiring the reference relay.
Single construction point for ``MoAClient`` wherever the agent's shared
client is (re)built: initial setup (``agent_init``), turn-start fallback
restore (``restore_primary_runtime``), transient transport recovery
(``try_recover_primary_transport``), and mid-session model switches
(``switch_model``).
Constructing a bare ``MoAClient(preset)`` at any of those sites silently
drops the ``reference_callback`` relay that ``agent_init`` wires to
``agent.tool_progress_callback`` — after a fallback+restore cycle the
facade would still work, but every frontend (CLI spinner, TUI, desktop,
gateway) would stop receiving ``moa.reference`` / ``moa.aggregating``
display events for the rest of the session (#53802).
The relay reads ``agent.tool_progress_callback`` at *emit* time, so a
callback attached after client construction is picked up automatically.
Best-effort and display-only — it never raises into the model call.
"""
def _moa_reference_relay(event: str, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
cb = getattr(agent, "tool_progress_callback", None)
if cb is None:
return
try:
if event == "moa.reference":
label = str(kwargs.get("label") or "")
text = str(kwargs.get("text") or "")
idx = kwargs.get("index")
count = kwargs.get("count")
cb(
"moa.reference",
label,
text,
None,
moa_index=idx,
moa_count=count,
)
elif event == "moa.progress":
# Per-reference completion. Frontends render this as a
# status-bar progress indicator like ``MOA: N/M refs done``.
cb(
"moa.progress",
str(kwargs.get("label") or ""),
None,
None,
moa_refs_done=kwargs.get("refs_done"),
moa_refs_total=kwargs.get("refs_total"),
)
elif event == "moa.phase":
# Phase transition (currently only ``phase="aggregator"``
# fires once the fan-out is done). Subscribers can switch
# on ``moa_phase`` to know which phase is active.
cb(
"moa.phase",
str(kwargs.get("aggregator") or ""),
None,
None,
moa_phase=kwargs.get("phase"),
moa_refs_done=kwargs.get("refs_done"),
moa_refs_total=kwargs.get("refs_total"),
)
elif event == "moa.aggregating":
cb(
"moa.aggregating",
str(kwargs.get("aggregator") or ""),
None,
None,
moa_ref_count=kwargs.get("ref_count"),
)
except Exception:
pass
return MoAClient(
str(preset_name or getattr(agent, "model", None) or "default"),
reference_callback=_moa_reference_relay,
# Thread the agent through so the reference fan-out wait can be
# aborted on a user interrupt (see _run_references_parallel).
agent=agent,
)