litellm/litellm/compression/compress.py
tin-berri b408b1d6dc
fix(guardrails/headroom): stop compressing the turn the model must act on (#35294)
The Headroom guardrail sent every message to /v1/compress, including the
system prompt and the user's current instruction. On an agentic /v1/messages
request the live turn is the largest compressible blob, so it came back as a
hash marker; the model then called headroom_retrieve and got its own
instruction returned in a tool_result block, which reads as data it fetched
rather than a request to act on, so it described the content instead of doing
the work.

litellm already owns the policy for what a compressor may never rewrite:
get_protected_indices covers the system rows, the last user row and the last
assistant row, and compress() expands it over whole tool exchanges. Headroom
now consults it (promoted from a private name and given tests) and expands it
the same way, so the trailing tool result cannot come back as a marker
standing in for the result of the call the model just made. Protected rows are
withheld from the payload rather than pinned afterwards, so their tokens are
not reported as savings that are never applied; the write-back discards a
compressed system prompt outright, so that saving never existed. The cost is
that a query-aware service no longer sees the newest user message.

A response whose row count differs from what was sent can no longer be
interleaved with the withheld rows, so it goes through the configured fail
policy instead of being adopted. Fail-open now returns the caller's own inputs
object: translation handlers detect a rewrite by identity, so a rebuilt copy
sent an unchanged request through the Anthropic write-back for nothing.

That write-back rebuilt the request with one anthropic_messages_pt call, which
merges every run of consecutive user/tool rows, so a tool_result turn and the
user turn after it arrived fused. Converting a row at a time would separate
them but breaks tool pairing: with modify_params on, an assistant row whose
results are converted separately reads as an orphaned tool call and the
sanitizer answers it with a synthetic "tool execution skipped" result while
dropping the real one. Conversion is now grouped by tool_call_id ownership,
which satisfies both, and the same grouping decides which rows headroom
protects, so the two agree by construction.

The CCR follow-up also dropped any text the model wrote alongside its tool
call, and echoed tool calls it had no results for. Both are fixed by reusing
compresr's extraction helper, now shared instead of duplicated.

Resolves LIT-5018
2026-07-30 18:53:31 -07:00

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"""
Main compress() function — normalizes input messages, orchestrates BM25/embedding
scoring, message stubbing, and retrieval tool injection.
"""
from collections.abc import Mapping, Sequence
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Set, Tuple, Union, cast
from litellm.caching.dual_cache import DualCache
from litellm.compression.message_stubbing import (
extract_key,
stub_message,
truncate_message,
)
from litellm.compression.retrieval_tool import build_retrieval_tool
from litellm.compression.scoring.bm25 import bm25_score_messages
from litellm.litellm_core_utils.token_counter import token_counter
from litellm.types.compression import CompressedResult
from litellm.types.utils import CallTypes
# CallTypes that produce Anthropic-shaped messages (structured content blocks).
# Everything else is treated as OpenAI chat-completions shape.
_ANTHROPIC_CALL_TYPES = frozenset({CallTypes.anthropic_messages.value})
# CallTypes that are valid targets for compression. Compression operates on
# message-shaped inputs, so we only accept call types whose payload is a list
# of role/content messages.
_SUPPORTED_CALL_TYPES = frozenset(
{
CallTypes.completion.value,
CallTypes.acompletion.value,
CallTypes.anthropic_messages.value,
}
)
def _normalize_call_type(call_type: Union[CallTypes, str]) -> str:
"""Return the string value for a ``CallTypes`` enum or a raw string."""
if isinstance(call_type, CallTypes):
return call_type.value
return call_type
def _is_anthropic_call_type(call_type: str) -> bool:
return call_type in _ANTHROPIC_CALL_TYPES
def _build_retrieval_tools(keys: List[str], call_type: str) -> List[dict]:
"""
Build retrieval tool definitions in the target request schema.
- Chat-completions call types: keep OpenAI function-tool schema.
- Anthropic messages call type: remap to Anthropic's custom tool schema.
"""
if not keys:
return []
openai_tools = [build_retrieval_tool(keys)]
if not _is_anthropic_call_type(call_type):
return openai_tools
# Lazy import to avoid introducing provider transformation imports during
# module import for non-Anthropic call paths.
from litellm.llms.anthropic.chat.transformation import AnthropicConfig
anthropic_tools, _mcp_servers = AnthropicConfig()._map_tools(openai_tools)
return cast(List[dict], anthropic_tools)
def _content_to_text(content: Any) -> str:
"""
Convert OpenAI/Anthropic message content blocks to plain text.
Text extraction policy:
- Include text-bearing fields only (`text` blocks + string values).
- For `tool_result`, expand into nested `content` items.
- Ignore non-textual blocks (images/documents/tool metadata/thinking metadata).
Implemented iteratively (stack-based) to avoid unbounded recursion.
"""
parts: List[str] = []
stack: List[Any] = [content]
while stack:
item = stack.pop()
if isinstance(item, str):
parts.append(item)
elif isinstance(item, list):
# Push list items in reverse order so they are processed left-to-right.
for element in reversed(item):
stack.append(element)
elif isinstance(item, dict):
item_type = item.get("type")
if item_type == "text":
parts.append(str(item.get("text", "")))
elif item_type == "tool_result":
stack.append(item.get("content", ""))
return " ".join(parts)
def _normalize_messages_for_compression(
messages: List[dict],
call_type: str,
) -> Tuple[List[dict], List[dict]]:
"""
Normalize each original message to a text-surrogate content for scoring.
Returns:
(normalized_messages, original_messages_copy)
"""
if call_type not in _SUPPORTED_CALL_TYPES:
raise ValueError(
f"Unsupported call_type={call_type!r} for compression. Expected one of: {sorted(_SUPPORTED_CALL_TYPES)}."
)
original_messages: List[Dict[str, Any]] = [dict(m) for m in messages]
normalized_messages: List[dict] = []
for msg in original_messages:
normalized_messages.append(
{
**msg,
"content": _content_to_text(msg.get("content", "")),
}
)
return normalized_messages, original_messages
def _extract_last_user_message(messages: List[dict]) -> str:
"""Return the text content of the last user message."""
for msg in reversed(messages):
if msg.get("role") == "user":
return _content_to_text(msg.get("content", ""))
return ""
def _extract_tool_use_ids(content: Any) -> List[str]:
if not isinstance(content, list):
return []
tool_use_ids: List[str] = []
for part in content:
if not isinstance(part, dict):
continue
if part.get("type") != "tool_use":
continue
tool_use_id = part.get("id")
if isinstance(tool_use_id, str) and tool_use_id:
tool_use_ids.append(tool_use_id)
return tool_use_ids
def _extract_tool_result_ids(content: Any) -> Set[str]:
if not isinstance(content, list):
return set()
tool_result_ids: Set[str] = set()
for part in content:
if not isinstance(part, dict):
continue
if part.get("type") != "tool_result":
continue
tool_use_id = part.get("tool_use_id")
if isinstance(tool_use_id, str) and tool_use_id:
tool_result_ids.add(tool_use_id)
return tool_result_ids
def _extract_anthropic_tool_exchange_spans(
messages: List[dict],
) -> Tuple[List[Set[int]], Optional[str]]:
"""
Return atomic 2-message spans for Anthropic tool exchanges.
Each assistant message containing `tool_use` must be immediately followed by a
user message containing matching `tool_result` blocks for all tool_use ids.
"""
spans: List[Set[int]] = []
i = 0
while i < len(messages):
current = messages[i]
if current.get("role") != "assistant":
i += 1
continue
tool_use_ids = _extract_tool_use_ids(current.get("content"))
if not tool_use_ids:
i += 1
continue
if i + 1 >= len(messages):
return [], "invalid_anthropic_tool_sequence"
next_msg = messages[i + 1]
if next_msg.get("role") != "user":
return [], "invalid_anthropic_tool_sequence"
tool_result_ids = _extract_tool_result_ids(next_msg.get("content"))
if not tool_result_ids:
return [], "invalid_anthropic_tool_sequence"
for tool_use_id in tool_use_ids:
if tool_use_id not in tool_result_ids:
return [], "invalid_anthropic_tool_sequence"
spans.append({i, i + 1})
i += 2
return spans, None
def get_protected_indices(messages: Sequence[Mapping[str, object]]) -> tuple[int, ...]:
"""
Return indices of messages that must never be compressed:
- All system messages
- The last user message
- The last assistant message
The last user message is what the model is being asked to act on right now,
so compressing it replaces the live instruction with a marker. Compression
guardrails share this policy; see the Headroom guardrail.
"""
system_indices = tuple(index for index, msg in enumerate(messages) if msg.get("role", "") == "system")
last_user = tuple(index for index, msg in enumerate(messages) if msg.get("role", "") == "user")[-1:]
last_assistant = tuple(index for index, msg in enumerate(messages) if msg.get("role", "") == "assistant")[-1:]
return system_indices + last_user + last_assistant
def _combine_scores(
bm25_scores: List[float],
emb_scores: List[float],
bm25_weight: float = 0.4,
) -> List[float]:
"""Weighted average of BM25 and embedding scores, with min-max normalization."""
def _normalize(scores: List[float]) -> List[float]:
min_s = min(scores) if scores else 0.0
max_s = max(scores) if scores else 0.0
rng = max_s - min_s
if rng == 0:
return [0.0] * len(scores)
return [(s - min_s) / rng for s in scores]
norm_bm25 = _normalize(bm25_scores)
norm_emb = _normalize(emb_scores)
emb_weight = 1.0 - bm25_weight
return [bm25_weight * b + emb_weight * e for b, e in zip(norm_bm25, norm_emb)]
def _select_kept_indices_for_budget(
normalized_messages: List[dict],
original_messages: List[dict],
combined_scores: List[float],
compression_target: int,
model: str,
initial_kept_indices: Set[int],
tool_exchange_spans: List[Set[int]],
) -> Tuple[Set[int], Dict[int, dict]]:
kept_indices = set(initial_kept_indices)
current_tokens = 0
for i in kept_indices:
current_tokens += token_counter(
model=model,
text=cast(str, normalized_messages[i].get("content", "") or ""),
)
# Fill token budget from highest-scoring units.
# A unit is either:
# 1) a single message index, or
# 2) an Anthropic tool-exchange span that must be kept/dropped atomically.
truncated_overrides: Dict[int, dict] = {} # idx -> truncated message dict
span_id_by_index: Dict[int, int] = {}
for span_id, span in enumerate(tool_exchange_spans):
for idx in span:
span_id_by_index[idx] = span_id
# Build single-message candidate units (non-span messages).
candidate_units: List[Tuple[float, Tuple[int, ...], bool]] = []
for idx in range(len(normalized_messages)):
if idx in span_id_by_index or idx in kept_indices:
continue
candidate_units.append((combined_scores[idx], (idx,), True))
# Build span candidate units (atomic keep/drop for tool exchanges).
for span in tool_exchange_spans:
span_indices = tuple(sorted(span))
if any(idx in kept_indices for idx in span_indices):
continue
span_score = max(combined_scores[idx] for idx in span_indices)
candidate_units.append((span_score, span_indices, False))
# Sort by descending relevance score.
candidate_units.sort(key=lambda item: item[0], reverse=True)
for _score, indices, can_truncate in candidate_units:
if any(idx in kept_indices for idx in indices):
continue
msg_tokens = 0
for idx in indices:
msg_tokens += token_counter(
model=model,
text=cast(str, normalized_messages[idx].get("content", "") or ""),
)
remaining = compression_target - current_tokens
if remaining <= 0:
break # budget exhausted
if current_tokens + msg_tokens <= compression_target:
# Fits entirely
kept_indices.update(indices)
current_tokens += msg_tokens
elif can_truncate and len(indices) == 1 and remaining >= 100:
# Too large to fit whole single message, but we have budget — truncate it.
idx = indices[0]
truncated = truncate_message(original_messages[idx], remaining)
truncated_tokens = token_counter(
model=model,
text=truncated.get("content", "") or "",
)
truncated_overrides[idx] = truncated
kept_indices.add(idx)
current_tokens += truncated_tokens
return kept_indices, truncated_overrides
def _get_dropped_tool_span_indices(kept_indices: Set[int], tool_exchange_spans: List[Set[int]]) -> Set[int]:
dropped_tool_span_indices: Set[int] = set()
for span in tool_exchange_spans:
if not any(idx in kept_indices for idx in span):
dropped_tool_span_indices.update(span)
return dropped_tool_span_indices
def compress(
messages: List[dict],
model: str,
call_type: Union[CallTypes, str] = CallTypes.completion,
compression_trigger: int = 200_000,
compression_target: Optional[int] = None,
embedding_model: Optional[str] = None,
embedding_model_params: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
compression_cache: Optional[DualCache] = None,
) -> CompressedResult:
"""
Compress a list of messages by replacing low-relevance content with stubs.
Messages below ``compression_trigger`` tokens pass through unchanged.
Messages above are scored with BM25 (and optionally embeddings), ranked,
and the lowest-relevance messages are replaced with stubs. Originals are
cached and a retrieval tool is injected so the model can recover dropped
content on demand.
Parameters:
messages: The conversation messages to (potentially) compress.
model: The LLM model name — used for token counting.
call_type: The LiteLLM call type whose message schema these messages
follow. Supported values:
- ``CallTypes.completion`` / ``CallTypes.acompletion`` — OpenAI
chat-completions shape (default)
- ``CallTypes.anthropic_messages`` — Anthropic Messages shape
(structured content blocks + atomic tool exchanges)
compression_trigger: Only compress if input exceeds this token count.
compression_target: Target token count after compression.
Defaults to ``compression_trigger // 2``.
embedding_model: If provided, use BM25 + embeddings for scoring.
If ``None``, BM25 only.
embedding_model_params: Optional kwargs forwarded to
``litellm.embedding()`` when ``embedding_model`` is set.
compression_cache: Passed through to ``litellm.embedding()`` for
cross-turn caching of embedding vectors.
Returns:
A ``CompressedResult`` dict containing compressed messages, token
counts, a cache of original content, and the retrieval tool definition.
"""
call_type_str = _normalize_call_type(call_type)
normalized_messages, original_messages = _normalize_messages_for_compression(
messages=messages,
call_type=call_type_str,
)
if compression_target is None:
compression_target = compression_trigger * 7 // 10
original_tokens = token_counter(
model=model,
messages=cast(List[Any], original_messages),
)
# Pass through if below trigger
if original_tokens <= compression_trigger:
return CompressedResult(
messages=original_messages,
original_tokens=original_tokens,
compressed_tokens=original_tokens,
compression_ratio=0.0,
cache={},
tools=[],
compression_skipped_reason="below_trigger",
)
# Extract query for relevance scoring
query = _extract_last_user_message(normalized_messages)
# Score each message
bm25_scores = bm25_score_messages(query, normalized_messages)
if embedding_model:
from litellm.compression.scoring.embedding_scorer import (
embedding_score_messages,
)
emb_scores = embedding_score_messages(
query,
normalized_messages,
model=embedding_model,
cache=compression_cache,
embedding_model_params=embedding_model_params,
)
combined_scores = _combine_scores(bm25_scores, emb_scores, bm25_weight=0.4)
else:
combined_scores = bm25_scores
# Protected messages are never compressed
protected_indices = get_protected_indices(normalized_messages)
kept_indices: Set[int] = set(protected_indices)
tool_exchange_spans: List[Set[int]] = []
if _is_anthropic_call_type(call_type_str):
tool_exchange_spans, tool_sequence_error = _extract_anthropic_tool_exchange_spans(original_messages)
if tool_sequence_error is not None:
return CompressedResult(
messages=original_messages,
original_tokens=original_tokens,
compressed_tokens=original_tokens,
compression_ratio=0.0,
cache={},
tools=[],
compression_skipped_reason=tool_sequence_error,
)
for span in tool_exchange_spans:
# If any message in the span is protected, keep the whole span.
if any(idx in kept_indices for idx in span):
kept_indices.update(span)
kept_indices, truncated_overrides = _select_kept_indices_for_budget(
normalized_messages=normalized_messages,
original_messages=original_messages,
combined_scores=combined_scores,
compression_target=compression_target,
model=model,
initial_kept_indices=kept_indices,
tool_exchange_spans=tool_exchange_spans,
)
# Build compressed messages and cache
compressed_messages: List[dict] = []
cache: Dict[str, str] = {}
used_keys: Set[str] = set()
dropped_tool_span_indices = _get_dropped_tool_span_indices(
kept_indices=kept_indices, tool_exchange_spans=tool_exchange_spans
)
for i, msg in enumerate(original_messages):
if i in dropped_tool_span_indices:
continue
if i in kept_indices:
# Use the truncated version if we made one, otherwise the original
compressed_messages.append(truncated_overrides.get(i, msg))
else:
key = extract_key(normalized_messages[i], fallback_index=i, used_keys=used_keys)
content = _content_to_text(msg.get("content", ""))
cache[key] = content
compressed_messages.append(stub_message(msg, key))
# Build retrieval tool in the target request schema
tools = _build_retrieval_tools(list(cache.keys()), call_type=call_type_str)
compressed_tokens = token_counter(
model=model,
messages=cast(List[Any], compressed_messages),
)
return CompressedResult(
messages=compressed_messages,
original_tokens=original_tokens,
compressed_tokens=compressed_tokens,
compression_ratio=(round(1 - (compressed_tokens / original_tokens), 4) if original_tokens > 0 else 0.0),
cache=cache,
tools=tools,
)