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Summary

Fixes #579.

Problem

When a sub-agent entered Fatal (e.g. LLM 401/timeout), the main turn was short-circuited immediately but the terminal stayed silent — no failure reason, no completed-step summary. Root cause: security_notice_callback is always Some in the main session (app.rs:2111), and process_tool_call_result used security_notice_callback.is_some() || suppress_body to blank the short-circuit text. This blanket-suppressed sub_agent_fatal — whose fatal_tool_result output already carried the error category and completed-tool evidence — into an empty string, so Ok("") reached the shell and nothing was printed.

Fix

1. Distinguish sub_agent_fatal from cancel reasons (session.rs)

suppress_body now matches only sub_agent_cancelled / user_cancelled (control-flow cancels that the shell already shows as shell.interrupted). sub_agent_fatal keeps its output as ProcessResult.text so the failure category + completed-tool summary reaches the display layer. The short-circuit control flow is unchanged — the main turn still ends immediately, but the failure info is surfaced first.

2. Regression tests (session.rs)

  • sub_agent_fatal_text_not_suppressed_with_security_notice_callback: sets security_notice_callback, mock Agent returns sub_agent_fatal, asserts ProcessResult.text contains the error category, "Completed before failure", and the completed tool name.
  • sub_agent_cancelled_text_still_suppressed: ensures cancel still suppresses the body (regression guard).

3. Sister fix: TokenUsage cached-token parsing (usage.rs, app.rs, 6 locale files)

TokenUsage dropped provider cache-hit fields (OpenAI prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens, Anthropic cache_read_input_tokens), inflating /token consumption with cached hits.

  • TokenUsage gains cached_tokens; from_response_json / from_anthropic_json parse the cache fields.
  • TokenStats gains cached_input; record subtracts cache hits from total_input (billed consumption), last_prompt_tokens keeps the full prompt size (real context depth).
  • /token shows a Cache hits row when cached_input > 0.

Verification

  • cargo fmt --check ✅
  • cargo clippy -D warnings ✅
  • 75 aish-llm lib tests pass; 6 agent_tool integration tests pass
  • Before/after contrast: reverted the suppress logic to upstream and ran the new test — it FAILED with got: "" (confirming the bug). Restored the fix — test PASSES.

Acceptance criteria

  • Sub-agent Fatal shows failure reason (incl. error_category) in terminal
  • Terminal shows completed tool-step summary before failure
  • Main turn still short-circuited (control flow unchanged)
  • Automated test: mock sub-agent 401 → assert output contains failure reason + step summary

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Token usage now tracks cached input separately from billed input. The /token display shows cached input when available, with labels in supported languages.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fatal sub-agent summaries are now shown in short-circuit results, while cancellation messages remain suppressed.

…kens (AI-Shell-Team#579)

Sub-agent Fatal left the terminal silent: security_notice_callback
blanket-suppressed every short-circuit text, including sub_agent_fatal,
so the failure category and completed-tool summary were dropped before
reaching the display layer. Now only sub_agent_cancelled/user_cancelled
suppress the body; sub_agent_fatal returns its output as text so the
shell can print the failure reason and completed steps before the
short-circuit ends the turn.

Sister fix: TokenUsage now parses provider cache-hit fields (OpenAI
prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens, Anthropic cache_read_input_tokens).
TokenStats tracks cached_input separately and total_input excludes cache
hits, so /token no longer inflates consumption with cached tokens.
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Walkthrough

The changes add cached-token parsing and accounting for provider usage, show cached input in /token when present, and preserve non-cancellation output from short-circuit results.

Changes

Cached Token Usage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Parse and account for cached tokens
crates/aish-llm/src/usage.rs, crates/aish-llm/src/session.rs
Usage parsing records cached-token counts from OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic responses. Statistics track cached input separately and exclude it from billed input totals. Streaming usage records cached-token counts.
Display cached-token counts
crates/aish-shell/src/app.rs, crates/aish-i18n/locales/*
/token displays cached input when the count is greater than zero. Six locales add the cached-token label.

Short-Circuit Output

Layer / File(s) Summary
Preserve fatal-result output
crates/aish-llm/src/session.rs
Short-circuit handling retains output except for sub_agent_cancelled and user_cancelled results. Tests cover fatal-result output with a security-notice callback and continued cancellation suppression.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fbb6a

Fatal summaries are now returned without changing cancellation handling, but cached-token reporting remains incomplete: Anthropic input and context counts are understated, and /token cannot display cache hits. Correct these accounting and persistence gaps before merging unless explicitly accepted.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 446a8

Tool-execution checks remain intact, and the accounting discrepancies appear confined to reporting. Failure summaries now also enter conversation history, however, and their protection against retaining sensitive tool output is not fully established.

Retained concerns

  • Low · security · inferred: Newly unsuppressed non-cancellation tool output is appended to assistant history separately from the tool-result secret-redaction path. If production fatal summaries retain sensitive provider errors or completed-tool evidence, that content can survive in assistant history even when the paired tool message is redacted. Production summary sanitization remains unverified; this is not a verified disclosure.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The evidenced new exposure is within the invoking shell session: returned failure text can enter assistant history and the existing terminal/recording renderer. Tool-result logging and intermediate tool-message retention already existed; they should not be attributed to this PR as new exposure.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The unresolved propagation path is production fatal-summary content to ToolResult.output, then ProcessResult.text, then unredacted assistant history. Sensitive or adversarial content must survive summary construction for this path to cause harm; that production precondition was not established. No secret disclosure or execution exploit is verified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Security preflight still audits blocked decisions, invokes the notice callback, and returns before tool execution. Newly visible security-blocked text does not let the blocked tool execute. Sub-agent and user cancellation continue to suppress result-body text.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Sub-agent statistics have independent mutex-protected ownership and are merged after success, fatal failure, or cancellation. Cached totals participate in that merge without replacing the parent context-depth statistic. This preserves the inspected accounting ownership boundary, although interrupted in-flight usage and durable cache totals remain incomplete.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Apply the configured tool-output secret protection before promoting tool-origin failure summaries into assistant history, while preserving their provenance, useful failure details, and cancellation semantics.
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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Issue [#579] requires Fatal output with the error category and completed tool summary. The change returns sub_agent_fatal text through ProcessResult.text and keeps short-circuit control flow. The … Add an automated test that makes a sub-agent request return 401, drives the terminal output path, and verifies the error category, completed tool summary, and display sequence. Implement and test the required handling for Anthropic `cache_c…
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes both primary changes: exposing sub-agent fatal failure summaries and tracking cached tokens.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changed files support [#579]. Fatal-result handling and regression tests address failure reporting. Token parsing, cache accounting, streaming propagation, /token display, and localization imple…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 80.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 20 functions across 2 files.
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Explanation

Issue [#579] requires Fatal output with the error category and completed tool summary. The change returns sub_agent_fatal text through ProcessResult.text and keeps short-circuit control flow. The regression test uses a synthetic FatalAgent result. It does not mock a 401 request or assert terminal output and the required display sequence. The linked cache requirement names Anthropic cache_creation_input_tokens. from_anthropic_json reads only cache_read_input_tokens; the test includes the creation field but does not verify handling.

Resolution

Add an automated test that makes a sub-agent request return 401, drives the terminal output path, and verifies the error category, completed tool summary, and display sequence. Implement and test the required handling for Anthropic cache_creation_input_tokens, or document and separate that linked coding requirement if it is not part of this PR.

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Review comments at @crates/aish-llm/src/session.rs:
- Line 1109: Replace the hard-coded zero in the streamed token stats with
cached-token usage parsed in StreamParser::parse_sse_chunk. Keep the parsed
count alongside stream_prompt_tokens and pass it through to the cached_tokens
field so reported cache hits are reflected in TokenStats.

Review comments at @crates/aish-llm/src/usage.rs:
- Around line 50-64: Update the Anthropic usage conversion to count cache-read
and cache-creation tokens in the total prompt tokens instead of subtracting
cache-read tokens from input_tokens. Preserve cached_tokens in the non-stream
response conversion so the generic usage parser and response footer retain the
cache-read count; update the relevant Anthropic tests to verify both behaviors.

Review comments at @crates/aish-shell/src/app.rs:
- Around line 8916-8922: Persist cached token usage through the existing
token-statistics flow: update `TokenUsageStore::record_session_delta` and its
cumulative delta tracking to record `cached_input`, pass `stats.cached_input`
from `persist_token_usage()`, and include it in daily records and `stats()`
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Comment on lines +50 to +64
let prompt_tokens = usage
.and_then(|u| u.get("input_tokens"))
.and_then(|v| v.as_u64())
.unwrap_or(0);
let cached_tokens = usage
.and_then(|u| u.get("cache_read_input_tokens"))
.and_then(|v| v.as_u64())
.unwrap_or(0);
Self {
prompt_tokens: usage
.and_then(|u| u.get("input_tokens"))
.and_then(|v| v.as_u64())
.unwrap_or(0),
prompt_tokens,
completion_tokens: usage
.and_then(|u| u.get("output_tokens"))
.and_then(|v| v.as_u64())
.unwrap_or(0),
cached_tokens,

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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Anthropic Messages API usage input_tokens cache_read_input_tokens cache_creation_input_tokens whether input_tokens includes cached tokens

💡 Result:

**No.** Anthropic’s pricing docs say to calculate total input tokens by summing `input_tokens`, `cache_creation_input_tokens`, and `cache_read_input_tokens`. So `input_tokens` is the uncached portion; cached tokens are reported separately, not included in that field. ([docs.anthropic.com](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/pricing?4810b549_page=3&73cdfb14_page=2&939688b5_page=1&e768fcd2_page=2&utm_source=openai))

For context-window threshold calculations, use that sum—not `input_tokens` alone. ([docs.anthropic.com](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/pricing?4810b549_page=3&73cdfb14_page=2&939688b5_page=1&e768fcd2_page=2&utm_source=openai))

Citations:

- 1: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/pricing?4810b549_page=3&73cdfb14_page=2&939688b5_page=1&e768fcd2_page=2&utm_source=openai
- 2: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/pricing?4810b549_page=3&73cdfb14_page=2&939688b5_page=1&e768fcd2_page=2&utm_source=openai

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Correct Anthropic prompt-token accounting.

Anthropic input_tokens excludes cache-read and cache-creation tokens. The current code subtracts cache_read_input_tokens from input_tokens, which undercounts /token totals and the context percentage in the response footer.

The non-stream conversion also drops the cache-read count before the generic parser reads the response.

🐛 Suggested fix
-        let prompt_tokens = usage
+        let input_tokens = usage
             .and_then(|u| u.get("input_tokens"))
             .and_then(|v| v.as_u64())
             .unwrap_or(0);
         let cached_tokens = usage
             .and_then(|u| u.get("cache_read_input_tokens"))
             .and_then(|v| v.as_u64())
             .unwrap_or(0);
+        let cache_creation_tokens = usage
+            .and_then(|u| u.get("cache_creation_input_tokens"))
+            .and_then(|v| v.as_u64())
+            .unwrap_or(0);
+        let prompt_tokens = input_tokens
+            .saturating_add(cached_tokens)
+            .saturating_add(cache_creation_tokens);
         Self {
             prompt_tokens,
         "usage": {
             "prompt_tokens": usage.prompt_tokens,
             "completion_tokens": usage.completion_tokens,
+            "prompt_tokens_details": {
+                "cached_tokens": usage.cached_tokens,
+            },
         }

Update the Anthropic tests to assert the full prompt size and preserve cached_tokens through the conversion.

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Review comment at @crates/aish-llm/src/usage.rs around lines 50 - 64:
Update the Anthropic usage conversion to count cache-read and cache-creation
tokens in the total prompt tokens instead of subtracting cache-read tokens from
input_tokens. Preserve cached_tokens in the non-stream response conversion so
the generic usage parser and response footer retain the cache-read count; update
the relevant Anthropic tests to verify both behaviors.

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Comment on lines +8916 to +8922
if stats.cached_input > 0 {
println!(
" {} {}",
aish_i18n::t("shell.token.cached"),
format_number(stats.cached_input)
);
}

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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printf '%s\n' '--- token_store delta and tests at reviewed head ---'
cat -n crates/aish-shell/src/token_store.rs | sed -n '1,230p'
printf '%s\n' '--- persistence-related diff from merge base to reviewed head ---'
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Persist cached_input in token statistics.

TokenUsageStore::record_session_delta already uses cumulative deltas, so this correction does not require a migration or coordination across storage systems. Add cached_input to the delta, daily record, and aggregate. Mark the new field with #[serde(default)] so existing token_stats.json files remain readable. Extend the existing delta and persistence tests with cached input values and an older record without the field.

This localized correction enables the complete /token cache-reporting feature. It does not affect billing or execution.

Suggested fix
 struct DailyRecord {
     input: u64,
     output: u64,
     requests: u64,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    cached_input: u64,
 }

 pub struct TokenUsageStore {
     ...
     session_recorded_input: u64,
     session_recorded_output: u64,
     session_recorded_requests: u64,
+    session_recorded_cached_input: u64,
 }

     pub fn record_session_delta(
         &mut self,
         total_input: u64,
         total_output: u64,
         request_count: u64,
+        cached_input: u64,
     ) {
         ...
+        let delta_cached_input =
+            cached_input.saturating_sub(self.session_recorded_cached_input);

-        if delta_input == 0 && delta_output == 0 && delta_requests == 0 {
+        if delta_input == 0
+            && delta_output == 0
+            && delta_requests == 0
+            && delta_cached_input == 0
+        {
             return;
         }

         ...
+        self.session_recorded_cached_input = cached_input;

         ...
+        entry.cached_input += delta_cached_input;

     pub fn stats(&self) -> aish_llm::TokenStats {
         ...
+        stats.cached_input += record.cached_input;
     }

Update persist_token_usage() to pass stats.cached_input.

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Review comment at @crates/aish-shell/src/app.rs around lines 8916 - 8922:
Persist cached token usage through the existing token-statistics flow: update
`TokenUsageStore::record_session_delta` and its cumulative delta tracking to
record `cached_input`, pass `stats.cached_input` from `persist_token_usage()`,
and include it in daily records and `stats()` aggregation. Give the new
persisted field a serde default so older `token_stats.json` records still load,
and extend the existing delta and persistence tests to cover cached input and
records without the field.

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The streaming path hard-coded cached_tokens: 0, discarding the cache-hit
count parsed by StreamParser::parse_sse_chunk. Now stream_cached_tokens
flows from the SSE usage chunk through record_usage, so /token and the
footer reflect real billed consumption on streaming providers too.
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