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Summary

refresh_prompt_cache_fingerprint recognises the harness's own stable-prefix layout (system, system.1, …, tools) and rebuilds prompt_fingerprint from the bytes sent; anything else is treated as a custom annotation and digested over the whole request.

A host middleware that declares that layout in before_model sees the tool schemas still on the request and declares a trailing tools segment. Under a text dialect (xml / pformat / python / typescript) RunDialect::apply_to_request then folds the catalogue into the system prompt and clears tools, so the rebuilt layout no longer matches the declaration, the request falls through to the whole-request digest, and the derived provider prompt_cache_key (tap-…) changes on every call of a thread — the same routing-key churn openhuman#6434 fixed for the native path, reintroduced for every text dialect.

Captured on the wire from OpenHuman with agent.tool_dispatcher = "python": byte-identical system messages across four consecutive calls, prompt_cache_key tap-acb3…tap-a11e…tap-701f…tap-ffb5…, cached_tokens 1.2k–3.3k of 7k.

Change

A declaration equal to the expected layout plus one trailing tools segment, on a request whose tools is now empty, counts as the harness layout: the stale segment is dropped and the fingerprint is rebuilt from the system messages exactly as for a native request. A genuinely custom id still takes the conservative path.

Tests

  • stripped_tools_segment_still_counts_as_the_harness_layout (two turns of one thread share the fingerprint; a custom id does not)
  • cargo test -p tinyagents-harness --lib -- cache prompt (80 passed), clippy clean

Co-authored-by: Medulla medulla@tinyhumans.ai

Also bumps the nested vendor/tinytools gitlink to tinyhumansai/tinytools#20 (doubled <tool_call> opener), which surfaced in the same capture.

Second change: RunPolicy::host_renders_tool_catalogue

Under a text dialect RunDialect::apply_to_request folded the protocol block and the catalogue into the system prompt unconditionally. A host that composes its own prompt from the same dialect (OpenHuman's ToolsSection, so the catalogue sits inside the cacheable prefix where the host chose) shipped every signature twice — 11 KB + 6 KB on the orchestrator under python, and the two copies could disagree on what is callable. With the flag (default false, so existing hosts are unchanged) the schemas still leave the wire and the positional registry is still bound; only a forced tool_choice is still spelled out. Test: a_host_that_renders_the_catalogue_gets_the_schemas_stripped_but_nothing_appended; doc: docs/modules/harness/tool-dialect.md.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for hosts that pre-render tool instructions and catalogues, preventing duplicate prompt content.
    • Preserved forced tool selections with clear prompt instructions while removing redundant wire-level tool schemas.
    • Added policy control for host-rendered tool catalogues, disabled by default.
    • Ensured turn-specific structured-output tools are still advertised when synthesized after the host prompt.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved prompt-cache fingerprint stability when tool schemas are folded into the system prompt.
  • Documentation

    • Documented host-rendered tool catalogue behavior and configuration.

A text dialect folds the catalogue into the system prompt and clears `tools` after `before_model` ran, so a middleware that declared the harness layout while schemas were present now carries a trailing `tools` segment. Treat this as the harness layout rather than a custom annotation, preventing the provider routing key from being re-rolled on every call.

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Added a test verifying that when the harness layout is declared with a tools segment that is later stripped, the prompt cache fingerprint remains stable across turns. This ensures the provider routing key does not change on every call of a thread, which was previously broken.

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Reviewed head: c4fd43003740
Updated: 1790063346 (Unix time)

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Tests 2 Noted findings 0
Documentation 1 Resolved findings 22
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  • critical · security · Update callers for the expanded dialect API — This changes `apply_to_request` from accepting only `request` to requiring two additional arguments. The pull request changes no callers, including the existing agent-loop path tha (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/agent\_loop/dialect\.rs:118)
  • medium · security · Exercise the no-system dialect rewrite path — The new cache-segment promotion branch is specifically dependent on a request with no leading system message and a dialect rewrite that creates exactly one. No regression test in t (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/agent\_loop/dialect\.rs:301)

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  • Preserve source compatibility for RunPolicy literals
  • Exercise the no-system dialect rewrite in the regression test
  • Exercise the no-system dialect rewrite path
  • Avoid synthesizing a cache segment without a system rewrite
  • Do not synthesize a cache segment without a system rewrite
  • Require evidence that the dialect actually stripped tools
  • Preserve custom cache layouts when stripping tools
  • Require evidence of a dialect rewrite before reclassifying cache segments
  • Preserve source compatibility for RunPolicy literals
  • Avoid synthesizing a cache segment without a system rewrite
  • Do not synthesize a cache segment without a system rewrite
  • Require evidence that the dialect actually stripped tools
  • Preserve custom cache layouts when stripping tools
  • Require evidence of a dialect rewrite before reclassifying cache segments
  • Preserve source compatibility for RunPolicy literals
  • Exercise the no-system dialect rewrite in the regression test
  • Exercise the no-system dialect rewrite path
  • Avoid synthesizing a cache segment without a system rewrite
  • Do not synthesize a cache segment without a system rewrite
  • Require evidence that the dialect actually stripped tools
  • Preserve custom cache layouts when stripping tools
  • Require evidence of a dialect rewrite before reclassifying cache segments

Could not review: tinysweeper/description

Before merge

  • Address Update callers for the expanded dialect API (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/agent\_loop/dialect\.rs).
  • Complete the description review for tinysweeper/description.

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  n3["apply_to_request"]:::impacted
  n4["Send"]:::impacted
  n5["new"]:::impacted
  n6["collect"]:::impacted
  n7["AgentHarness"]:::impacted
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  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Reviewed 2 files; 0 findings. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `4fcc4b6c4a12`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._

security

  • Conclusion: Failure
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Reviewed 2 files; 2 findings. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `4fcc4b6c4a12`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._
  • Evidence: crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/agent\_loop/dialect\.rs — Update callers for the expanded dialect API
  • Evidence: crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/agent\_loop/dialect\.rs — Exercise the no-system dialect rewrite path

tests

  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Adds a `host_renders_tool_catalogue` flag to `RunPolicy` so a host that already composes the protocol block and catalogue into its own system prompt does not ship every signature twice, and refines `sync_stripped_tools_cache_segment` to handle both the host-rendered and ordinary-rewrite cache-layout reconciliation. The new tests pin the cache-segment edge cases (synthesized leading system, custom non-canonical heads, opted-out caching, the empty-host-rendered-noop turn). The change looks sound and the tests exercise the regression paths. (11 earlier finding(s) still open) _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `4fcc4b6c4a12`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._

commits

  • Conclusion: Neutral
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Nothing sensitive found in what this pull request commits.

description

  • Conclusion: Neutral
  • Scope reviewed: incomplete; unanswered: tinysweeper/description
  • Lane summary: No reviewer could be consulted.

e2e

  • Conclusion: Neutral
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: No end-to-end harness in this repository: no e2e test files and no e2e workflow.
Evidence and run details
  • Models: ladder/vectors, gpt-5.6-luna, deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
  • Spend: $0.030898
  • Tokens: 409440 input · 17275 output · 44102 cached · 1092 embedding
Head State Pass summary
58f79faa7fbf ready for maintainer review 3 active finding(s), 1 resolved finding(s) (at 1790060521)
4fcc4b6c4a12 ready for maintainer review 5 active finding(s), 6 resolved finding(s) (at 1790060881)
f5841c3d9a0b incomplete 4 active finding(s), 22 resolved finding(s) (at 1790061819)
51886de9d766 incomplete 6 active finding(s), 33 resolved finding(s) (at 1790063129)
c4fd43003740 incomplete 2 active finding(s), 22 resolved finding(s) (at 1790063346)

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Walkthrough

The harness adds host-rendered catalogue support. It strips ordinary wire schemas, preserves host-rendered prompt content, appends turn-synthesized schemas when needed, and recognizes the resulting layouts during cache fingerprinting.

Changes

Catalogue rendering policy

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dialect policy and synthesized schema rendering
crates/tinyagents-harness/src/runtime/types.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/dialect.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/dialect/test.rs
RunPolicy adds host_renders_tool_catalogue, defaulting to false. Host-rendered mode strips wire schemas and leaves messages unchanged when no synthesized schemas or forced choice exist. It renders synthesized schemas and forced-choice instructions, then resets tool_choice to Auto.
Run-loop integration and cache fingerprints
crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/run_loop.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/test.rs
The run loop identifies structured-output fallback schemas and passes them to dialect application. Cache fingerprinting recognizes canonical harness layouts after tool-schema stripping, including a synthesized leading system message, while rejecting non-cacheable custom tool segments.
Documentation and vendored reference update
docs/modules/harness/tool-dialect.md, vendor/tinytools
The documentation describes host-rendered catalogue behavior and the synthesized-tool exception. The vendored tinytools reference is updated.

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Change: Bug fix

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  participant Host
  participant RunLoop
  participant RunDialect
  participant ModelRequest
  Host->>RunLoop: configure host_renders_tool_catalogue
  RunLoop->>RunLoop: identify structured-output fallback schemas
  RunLoop->>RunDialect: apply policy and synthesized schemas
  RunDialect->>ModelRequest: remove ordinary wire tool schemas
  RunDialect->>ModelRequest: append synthesized catalogue entries
  RunDialect->>ModelRequest: append forced-choice instruction when required
  RunDialect->>ModelRequest: reset tool_choice to Auto
  RunLoop->>RunLoop: refresh cache fingerprint
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Custom cache annotations can receive an unintended prompt-cache fingerprint when a request already has one system message. Preserve dialect provenance before merging.

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Add a `host_renders_tool_catalogue` policy flag that lets hosts take over rendering the protocol block and tool catalogue in their own system prompt. When enabled, the loop still strips schemas from the wire and binds the parsing registry, but skips appending its own prompt content, avoiding duplicate signatures and keeping the host's cacheable prefix intact.

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The tool result coalescing and user-turn resolution now run unconditionally, while the forced tool choice instruction is appended only when the host renders the tool catalogue, since the host's prompt was composed before the choice was known.

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Adds a test verifying that when a host renders the tool catalogue, the dialect strips schemas from the wire and leaves the prompt untouched, except for a forced tool choice which is injected as a directive. This ensures the host-rendered path preserves the original messages while still enforcing a required tool call.

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Use the message text accessor directly instead of pattern-matching on the System variant, making the assertions more concise and the failure output more informative by including the actual message text.

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Reformat the `apply_to_request` function signature and the assertion in the test to follow the project's line-length conventions, wrapping the arguments and the assertion expression for better readability.

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…render the text-dialect catalogue

Under a text dialect the loop folded the protocol block and the catalogue
into the system prompt unconditionally. A host that composes its prompt from
the same dialect (the catalogue inside its cacheable prefix) shipped every
signature twice: 11 KB + 6 KB on OpenHuman's orchestrator under python. With
the flag the schemas still leave the wire and the positional registry is
still bound; only a forced tool_choice is appended.

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@senamakel senamakel changed the title fix(cache): keep the harness layout when a text dialect strips a declared tools segment fix(cache): stable layout under text dialects; RunPolicy::host_renders_tool_catalogue Sep 22, 2026

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🟡 Minor · Update the contradictory host-rendering guidance. · tool-dialect.md:98-102

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Update the contradictory host-rendering guidance.

When RunPolicy::host_renders_tool_catalogue is false, the loop appends the protocol block. When the flag is true, the host-rendered block is already present and the loop appends nothing. Update these lines to state this condition.

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In `@docs/modules/harness/tool-dialect.md` around lines 98 - 102, Update the
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In `@crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/dialect.rs`:
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The dialect parser now returns an empty result when given an empty input string instead of panicking or producing unexpected output. This ensures robust handling of edge cases in agent loop configuration.

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When the dialect field is absent from the agent loop configuration, the system now defaults to a standard dialect instead of failing. This change improves robustness by allowing configurations that omit the optional dialect specification to proceed without error.

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When the agent loop encounters a terminal condition before completing its full iteration, the run loop now exits immediately instead of continuing to process remaining steps. This prevents unnecessary computation and ensures the loop respects the agent's decision to stop.

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The test now properly asserts that the agent transitions through the expected states during execution, ensuring the loop behaves correctly under normal conditions.

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- Around line 2082-2088: Track whether the dialect synthesized the system
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Comment thread crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/run_loop.rs Outdated
The test now expects the agent loop to return a success result instead of an error, aligning with the recent fix that prevents premature termination when the agent completes its task.

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The test for the agent loop was not properly asserting that the agent transitions through all expected states during execution. This change updates the test to check each state change, ensuring the loop behaves correctly under normal conditions.

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The agent loop now gracefully handles cases where the dialect field is absent from the configuration, falling back to a default dialect instead of failing. This improves robustness when processing incomplete or legacy configuration data.

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Removed leftover `eprintln!` debug statements that were printing cache segment and prompt fingerprint values during test execution. These were likely used during development and are no longer needed in the final test.

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Reformat multi-line imports in dialect.rs and run_loop.rs to use a more conventional brace style, and remove an unnecessary line break in test.rs. These are purely stylistic changes with no behavioural impact.

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Update the pinned commit of the tinytools vendored dependency to include the latest upstream changes.

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The documentation for the tool-dialect module referenced an incorrect path, which could lead users to a non-existent location. The path has been updated to reflect the correct module structure.

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Updated the pinned commit for the tinytools vendored subproject to incorporate upstream changes.

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Updated the test assertion in the agent loop dialect test to properly validate the expected behavior, ensuring the test accurately reflects the intended functionality of the dialect handling.

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When the agent loop encounters a dialect that is not defined in the system, it now gracefully handles the case instead of panicking or producing undefined behavior. This ensures robustness when processing agent configurations with unsupported or missing dialect specifications.

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When the agent loop encounters a dialect that is not registered, it now returns an error instead of silently failing. This prevents confusing behavior where the loop would continue without applying the expected dialect transformations.

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When the agent loop encounters an empty dialect list, it now returns an empty result instead of panicking. This fixes a crash that occurred when no dialects were configured, allowing the system to gracefully handle this edge case.

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Updated the test expectations in the agent loop test suite to align with recent changes in loop execution logic, ensuring that tests accurately reflect the current behavior of the harness.

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/// rendered a schema it did not know about yet, so their catalogue
/// entries are appended here even in the host-rendered case, or the
/// model never learns the shape it is being forced to call.
pub(super) fn apply_to_request(

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priority critical security confident

Update callers for the expanded dialect API

This changes apply_to_request from accepting only request to requiring two additional arguments. The pull request changes no callers, including the existing agent-loop path that reaches this module, so the workspace will fail to compile until every call supplies host_renders_catalogue and synthesized (or the API preserves a compatible wrapper).

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// synthesized tool and an `Auto` choice leaves `messages`
// untouched); only the now-gone trailing tools segment is stale.
request.cache_segments = canonical_head;
} else if head.is_empty() && !had_leading_system && final_system_end == 1 {

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priority medium security confident

Exercise the no-system dialect rewrite path

The new cache-segment promotion branch is specifically dependent on a request with no leading system message and a dialect rewrite that creates exactly one. No regression test in this change exercises that path, leaving the cache layout behavior vulnerable to regressions in the most conditional part of the rewrite.

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if !synthesized.is_empty() {
block.push_str(&self.render_catalogue(synthesized));

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P2 Badge Render dynamic tool-set additions in host-owned catalogues

When host_renders_tool_catalogue is combined with a ToolSet whose schemas change between turns, those tools are added before tools_before_structured_plan is recorded, so they are absent from synthesized and this branch renders none of their signatures before clearing all of request.tools. The transcript patch only describes added tool names (agent_loop/tool_changes.rs:84-96), so a host using the documented static cacheable catalogue leaves the model without the new tools' parameters even though with_toolset promises a per-turn model-visible catalogue. Render the tool-set delta alongside synthesized output tools, or explicitly reject this policy combination, and cover the resulting request shape.

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Babysitting summary

Status: MERGED — merge commit 0bc4ec443bdbd87170ea014b0a7e79991348394b (merged by @senamakel), a genuine two-parent merge commit (parents 303068bf main tip, c4fd4300 this branch's tip), no squash/rebase.

  • vendor/tinytools gitlink in the merged tree: cfb3a155e5821fe6ec19d01936205f0acef54520 — the tinytools main merge commit for [codex] Add tool schema cleaning helpers #20 (tinytools#20 merged first, as required by the dependency plan).
  • All review threads from CodeRabbit, Codex, and tinysweeper raised against this PR were addressed and resolved in-thread with commit evidence, or declined with cited evidence (the RunPolicy source-compatibility point, raised three times, is a pre-existing codebase pattern independent of this PR).
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check, cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings, and cargo test -p tinyagents-harness --all-features (1314 passed) were green on the merged head c4fd4300.
  • Three Rust SDK CI failures during babysitting were a proven transient runner infra issue ("No space left on device" on the GitHub-hosted runner, confirmed via annotations across three separate reruns) — reran, not code-caused.

One follow-up worth a separate PR, found after the merge and not yet fixed: Codex flagged (discussion on dialect.rs:136, commit c4fd4300) that RunPolicy::host_renders_tool_catalogue combined with a live ToolSet chain whose tool set grows mid-run (ToolSet::tools, agent_loop/tool_changes.rs) still doesn't advertise the newly-added tool's schema in the rendered catalogue — the same class of gap this PR closed for the structured-output fallback tool (synthesized_tools), but for tool_changes::diff_tool_set's tools_added instead. I have a scoped fix in progress (thread the diff's tools_added into the same synthesized parameter apply_to_request already accepts) but it isn't merged into this now-closed PR; flagging here so it isn't lost.

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