io-harness 0.16.1

Run an AI agent from a typed task contract to a verified result: provider-agnostic and embeddable in-process, with a layered permission boundary, execution-based verification inside a sandbox, durable resume for unattended runs, contained sub-agents, an MCP client, and a full SQLite trace.
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//! The observation log the model sees, and what bounds it.
//!
//! Until 0.10 the workspace loop kept one `String`, appended every tool result to
//! it, and re-sent the whole thing verbatim every turn: nothing bounded it,
//! nothing removed a read the agent had already superseded, and nothing noticed
//! when a write made an earlier read wrong. This module replaces that string with
//! a [`Ledger`] of typed [`Observation`]s — history, never mutated — and an
//! [`assemble`] step that decides, per turn, what of that history the model
//! actually sees under a [`ContextBudget`].
//!
//! Three things it does that a growing string cannot:
//!
//! - **Bounds.** One [`ContextBudget`] derives the whole prompt's ceiling *and*
//!   the per-observation cap ([`entry_cap_chars`]), so the two cannot drift apart
//!   the way four independent constants did.
//! - **Supersedes.** Two reads of one path, or two greps of one pattern, are one
//!   answer; the older becomes a one-line stub naming the newer.
//! - **Freshens.** A read the agent later wrote over is stale, and a stale read
//!   that would otherwise be carried is re-read at assembly time — through the
//!   policy, so freshening cannot read what the run may not read.
//!
//! What it deliberately does not do: nothing here shrinks what an operator can
//! audit. The store's `steps.result` keeps the full, unelided log
//! ([`Ledger::full_text`]); eliding is a decision about the *request*, not about
//! the trace.

use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};

use crate::error::Result;
use crate::policy::{Act, Effect, Policy};
use crate::state::{ContextEvent, MemoryEntry, Store};
use crate::tools::Workspace;

/// What an observation was, so assembly can reason about it.
///
/// The serde rendering (`read`, `grep`, `find`, `write`, `skill`, `tool`, `mcp`,
/// `child`, `message`, `error` — snake_case, as [`Act`] and [`Effect`] already
/// are) is a *wire format*: it is what a persisted ledger's `kind` column holds,
/// so each of those ten strings is a stored value that a later release may not
/// rename. It is deliberately not [`ObsKind::label`], which renders different
/// words for a different reader — see the note there.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
pub enum ObsKind {
    /// A file read into context.
    Read,
    /// A content search.
    Grep,
    /// A filename search.
    Find,
    /// A file written.
    Write,
    /// A skill body loaded.
    Skill,
    /// A tool the embedding program registered.
    Tool,
    /// A tool an MCP server offered.
    Mcp,
    /// A sub-agent's composed result.
    Child,
    /// The model said something instead of calling a tool.
    Message,
    /// A tool failed, or the policy refused it.
    Error,
}

impl ObsKind {
    /// Whether a later observation of the same target replaces this one.
    ///
    /// True where the target *is* the subject of the answer: a path, a search
    /// pattern, a glob, a skill's name. False where the target is only the name
    /// of the thing that answered — a registered or MCP tool called twice with
    /// different arguments gave two different answers, and stubbing the first as
    /// "superseded" would throw one of them away.
    pub fn target_is_the_subject(self) -> bool {
        matches!(
            self,
            ObsKind::Read | ObsKind::Grep | ObsKind::Find | ObsKind::Write | ObsKind::Skill
        )
    }

    /// The word a stub uses for this kind — the same word the observation's own
    /// header uses, so a stub reads as the thing it replaced.
    ///
    /// **Not the serialized form, and must not be unified with it.** These are
    /// English for the model and the operator reading a prompt (`Write` is
    /// "wrote", `Mcp` is "mcp tool"); the serde rendering on the type above is a
    /// stored value. Making either one match the other changes the prompt text
    /// or orphans every persisted ledger, and neither failure announces itself.
    pub fn label(self) -> &'static str {
        match self {
            ObsKind::Read => "read",
            ObsKind::Grep => "grep",
            ObsKind::Find => "find",
            ObsKind::Write => "wrote",
            ObsKind::Skill => "skill",
            ObsKind::Tool => "tool",
            ObsKind::Mcp => "mcp tool",
            ObsKind::Child => "child",
            ObsKind::Message => "note",
            ObsKind::Error => "error",
        }
    }
}

/// One observation exactly as it happened.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct Observation {
    /// The step it happened on.
    pub step: u32,
    /// What it was.
    pub kind: ObsKind,
    /// The path or subject the tool named, where it names one.
    pub target: Option<String>,
    /// The text the model would see, already bounded by [`entry_cap_chars`] at
    /// the point it entered the log.
    pub text: String,
}

impl Observation {
    /// One observation of `kind` about `target`.
    pub fn new(step: u32, kind: ObsKind, target: Option<String>, text: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
        Self {
            step,
            kind,
            target,
            text: text.into(),
        }
    }
}

/// The observations of one run, in order. Assembly reads it; nothing mutates
/// history.
///
/// `entries` stays private through serde too — it serializes as the one field it
/// is, so a restored ledger is still append-only through [`Ledger::push`].
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct Ledger {
    entries: Vec<Observation>,
}

impl Ledger {
    /// An empty log.
    pub fn new() -> Self {
        Self::default()
    }

    /// Append one observation. Append-only by design: the elided view is built
    /// per turn by [`assemble`], so bounding a request never loses history.
    pub fn push(&mut self, obs: Observation) {
        self.entries.push(obs);
    }

    /// How many observations the run has made.
    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
        self.entries.len()
    }

    /// Whether the run has observed nothing yet.
    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
        self.entries.is_empty()
    }

    /// Every observation, in order.
    pub fn entries(&self) -> &[Observation] {
        &self.entries
    }

    /// The whole log, unelided — what an operator reconstructing a run wants, so
    /// bounding what the model sees never bounds what can be audited.
    pub fn full_text(&self) -> String {
        self.entries.iter().map(|e| e.text.as_str()).collect()
    }

    /// The observations made on one step: what that step's trace row records.
    ///
    /// The trace stores a per-step delta rather than the whole log per step, so
    /// concatenating the rows in step order reproduces [`Ledger::full_text`]
    /// exactly while the trace stays linear in the step count instead of
    /// quadratic — which matters on the 24-hour runs 0.7.0 supports.
    pub fn text_for_step(&self, step: u32) -> String {
        self.entries
            .iter()
            .filter(|e| e.step == step)
            .map(|e| e.text.as_str())
            .collect()
    }
}

/// Estimated tokens for `text`. An estimate, never a count.
// ponytail: 4-chars-per-token heuristic — no tokenizer dependency is permitted in
// this release. Drift is recorded in the trace beside the provider's own number;
// upgrade path is a per-provider tokenizer if the recorded drift ever matters.
pub fn estimate_tokens(text: &str) -> u64 {
    (text.chars().count() as u64).div_ceil(4)
}

/// How much of a request the observation log may occupy.
///
/// The half of budgeting that [`TaskContract::with_token_budget`] is not:
/// that bounds what a whole run may spend, this bounds what any *one* request
/// carries of what the run has already observed. Without it a long workspace
/// run re-sends its entire history every turn and the cost of turn *n* grows
/// with *n*.
///
/// ```
/// use io_harness::ContextBudget;
///
/// let budget = ContextBudget::default();
/// assert_eq!(budget.max_tokens, 24_000);
/// assert_eq!(budget.share, 0.5);
///
/// // With no run token budget, the ceiling is `max_tokens` flat.
/// assert_eq!(budget.effective_tokens(None), 24_000);
///
/// // With one, the prompt takes `share` of what is *left* — so a run running
/// // low stops spending what remains on re-sending history and leaves it for
/// // doing the work.
/// assert_eq!(budget.effective_tokens(Some(100_000)), 24_000); // capped by max_tokens
/// assert_eq!(budget.effective_tokens(Some(20_000)), 10_000);  // half of the remainder
/// assert_eq!(budget.effective_tokens(Some(1_000)), 2_000);    // floored, never zero
/// ```
///
/// That last line is the floor: a prompt too small to carry one observation is
/// a turn the agent cannot act on, so the final turns still get a usable
/// request even when it exceeds what is nominally left.
///
/// Tighten it for a model with a small window, or for a run whose observations
/// are large:
///
/// ```
/// use io_harness::{ContextBudget, TaskContract, Verification};
///
/// let contract = TaskContract::workspace(
///     "make the failing test pass",
///     "/path/to/repo",
///     Verification::WorkspaceFileContains { file: "OK".into(), needle: "ok".into() },
/// )
/// .with_token_budget(200_000)
/// .with_context_budget(ContextBudget { max_tokens: 8_000, share: 0.25 });
/// # let _ = contract;
/// ```
///
/// [`TaskContract::with_token_budget`]: crate::TaskContract::with_token_budget
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
pub struct ContextBudget {
    /// Absolute per-request ceiling for the assembled prompt.
    pub max_tokens: u64,
    /// Share of the token budget still unspent that the prompt may use.
    pub share: f32,
}

impl Default for ContextBudget {
    fn default() -> Self {
        Self {
            max_tokens: 24_000,
            share: 0.5,
        }
    }
}

/// The smallest assembled section a nearly-exhausted budget still gets: a prompt
/// too small to carry one observation is a turn the agent cannot act on.
const BUDGET_FLOOR: u64 = 2_000;

impl ContextBudget {
    /// The ceiling for this turn's assembled section.
    ///
    /// With no run token budget it is [`max_tokens`](ContextBudget::max_tokens)
    /// flat. With one, it is the configured `share` of what is *left*, so a run
    /// running out of budget spends less of it on re-sent history — floored at
    /// `2000` tokens so the last turns still send a usable prompt, and never
    /// above `max_tokens`.
    pub fn effective_tokens(&self, remaining_budget: Option<u64>) -> u64 {
        match remaining_budget {
            None => self.max_tokens,
            Some(remaining) => {
                let share = (remaining as f32 * self.share) as u64;
                self.max_tokens.min(share.max(BUDGET_FLOOR))
            }
        }
    }
}

/// Chars a single observation may contribute. Derived from the same budget as the
/// whole prompt, so the four independent constants this replaces cannot drift
/// apart.
pub fn entry_cap_chars(effective_tokens: u64) -> usize {
    // An eighth of the budget, in chars: one observation may not crowd out the
    // seven before it.
    (2_000).max(effective_tokens as usize * 4 / 8)
}

/// Bound one observation to `cap` chars, marked so the model can see what it is
/// missing and act on it.
///
/// The head is kept for most kinds; for a [`ObsKind::Read`] the tail is kept,
/// because the end of a file is what a writer needs. Never splits a char
/// boundary.
pub fn bound(text: &str, cap: usize, kind: ObsKind) -> String {
    let total = text.chars().count();
    if total <= cap {
        return text.to_string();
    }
    // "truncated" as well as "elided": one word for the operator reading a trace,
    // one for the model reading the prompt, and one marker rather than two.
    let mark = format!(
        "…[truncated: elided {} of {} chars — re-read or narrow the query if you need the rest]",
        commas(total - cap),
        commas(total)
    );
    let at = |n: usize| {
        text.char_indices()
            .nth(n)
            .map(|(i, _)| i)
            .unwrap_or(text.len())
    };
    if kind == ObsKind::Read {
        format!("{mark}\n{}", &text[at(total - cap)..])
    } else {
        format!("{}\n{mark}", &text[..at(cap)])
    }
}

/// `41220` -> `41,220`. Sizes in a stub are for a human and a model to judge
/// "is that worth re-reading", and unseparated digits read as noise.
fn commas(n: usize) -> String {
    let d = n.to_string();
    let mut out = String::with_capacity(d.len() + d.len() / 3);
    for (i, c) in d.chars().enumerate() {
        if i > 0 && (d.len() - i).is_multiple_of(3) {
            out.push(',');
        }
        out.push(c);
    }
    out
}

/// Where one assembly happens: the run it belongs to, and what it may read.
///
/// Bundled rather than passed loose because these five travel together and never
/// vary independently — the turn changes, the run does not.
// No `Debug`: `Store` has none, and what a caller wants printed is the run, not the
// connection.
#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
pub struct Assembly<'a> {
    /// The workspace a stale read is refreshed through, if the run has one.
    pub ws: Option<&'a Workspace>,
    /// The policy that decides whether a refresh may read.
    pub policy: &'a Policy,
    /// Where the assembly's own decisions are recorded.
    pub store: &'a Store,
    /// The run being assembled for.
    pub run_id: i64,
    /// The step whose request this is.
    pub step: u32,
}

/// The observation section for one turn, and what it cost.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default)]
pub struct Assembled {
    /// The text to put in the prompt.
    pub text: String,
    /// Observations carried whole.
    pub carried: usize,
    /// Observations replaced by a one-line stub.
    pub stubbed: usize,
    /// Stale reads re-read at assembly time (whether or not the re-read worked).
    pub reread: usize,
    /// Notes from earlier runs carried into this turn.
    pub recalled: usize,
    /// Whether the stubs were collapsed into one line to hold the ceiling.
    pub collapsed: bool,
    /// Estimated tokens for `text` — see [`estimate_tokens`].
    pub est_tokens: u64,
}

/// How one entry is going to appear this turn.
enum Shape {
    /// Carried, with the text to carry (a re-read entry's text is the fresh one).
    Whole(String),
    /// Elided, with the reason.
    Stub(String),
}

/// Build the observation section the model sees this turn.
///
/// Rules, in order: supersession (a later observation of the same kind and target
/// replaces an earlier one), invalidation (a write makes an earlier read of that
/// path stale), re-read (a stale read that would otherwise be carried is refreshed
/// through the policy), fit (newest first, whole while it fits, stubs after), and
/// chronological emission so the model reads the run forwards.
///
/// One `assembled` trace row per turn, plus one per re-read. Never a row per stub.
pub async fn assemble(
    ledger: &Ledger,
    budget_tokens: u64,
    notes: &[MemoryEntry],
    at: Assembly<'_>,
) -> Result<Assembled> {
    let Assembly {
        ws,
        policy,
        store,
        run_id,
        step,
    } = at;
    let entries = ledger.entries();
    let n = entries.len();
    let cap = entry_cap_chars(budget_tokens);
    let mut out = Assembled::default();

    // Memory first. Notes from earlier runs are the cheapest context there is —
    // they are what makes a second run over a workspace cheaper than the first —
    // but they are also the part a long run must not let crowd out what it just
    // observed, so they get a quarter of the ceiling and the observations get what
    // is left.
    let (notes_text, notes_carried) = render_notes(notes, budget_tokens / 4);
    out.recalled = notes_carried;
    let budget_tokens = budget_tokens.saturating_sub(estimate_tokens(&notes_text));

    // 1. Supersession, and 2. invalidation. Both are "is there a later entry
    // that makes this one not the current answer".
    let superseded: Vec<Option<u32>> = (0..n)
        .map(|i| {
            if !entries[i].kind.target_is_the_subject() {
                return None;
            }
            entries[i].target.as_ref().and_then(|t| {
                entries[i + 1..]
                    .iter()
                    .find(|l| l.kind == entries[i].kind && l.target.as_deref() == Some(t.as_str()))
                    .map(|l| l.step)
            })
        })
        .collect();
    let invalidated: Vec<Option<u32>> = (0..n)
        .map(|i| {
            if entries[i].kind != ObsKind::Read {
                return None;
            }
            entries[i].target.as_ref().and_then(|t| {
                entries[i + 1..]
                    .iter()
                    .find(|l| l.kind == ObsKind::Write && l.target.as_deref() == Some(t.as_str()))
                    .map(|l| l.step)
            })
        })
        .collect();

    // 3. Re-read. A stale read is worth carrying only as its *current* contents,
    // so it is refreshed here — through the policy, at this step, because the
    // read the model would otherwise trust was decided many steps ago.
    let mut shapes: Vec<Option<Shape>> = (0..n).map(|_| None).collect();
    for i in 0..n {
        let (Some(wrote_at), None) = (invalidated[i], superseded[i]) else {
            continue;
        };
        let target = entries[i].target.clone().unwrap_or_default();
        out.reread += 1;
        match refresh(ws, policy, &target, cap) {
            Ok(fresh) => {
                store.record_context_event(
                    run_id,
                    &ContextEvent::reread(step, format!("{target} (written at step {wrote_at})")),
                )?;
                shapes[i] = Some(Shape::Whole(format!(
                    "\n[read {target}] (re-read at step {step}; the read at step {} was invalidated \
                     by the write at step {wrote_at})\n{fresh}\n",
                    entries[i].step
                )));
            }
            Err(why) => {
                store.record_context_event(
                    run_id,
                    &ContextEvent::reread_refused(step, format!("{target}: {why}")),
                )?;
                shapes[i] = Some(Shape::Stub(format!(
                    "invalidated by the write at step {wrote_at}; the re-read at step {step} could \
                     not be done ({why}) — read it yourself"
                )));
            }
        }
    }

    // 4. Fit: newest first, whole while the running total stays inside the
    // ceiling; once one does not fit, every older entry is a stub. Superseded and
    // stale-unrefreshable entries never consume budget — they are stubs already.
    let mut used = 0u64;
    let mut whole = vec![false; n];
    for i in (0..n).rev() {
        if superseded[i].is_some() || matches!(shapes[i], Some(Shape::Stub(_))) {
            continue;
        }
        let text = match &shapes[i] {
            Some(Shape::Whole(t)) => t.as_str(),
            _ => entries[i].text.as_str(),
        };
        let t = estimate_tokens(text);
        if used + t > budget_tokens {
            break;
        }
        used += t;
        whole[i] = true;
    }

    // 5. Emit chronologically, so the model reads the run forwards — the notes it
    // had before this run first, then the run itself.
    //
    // Stub lines are the one part of the section that grows with a run's LENGTH
    // rather than with what it observed: 4 elisions a step is ~60 tokens a step,
    // which on a 200-step run would exceed the ceiling one stub at a time. Past a
    // slice of the budget they collapse into a single line, so the ceiling holds on
    // a long run instead of merely holding on a short one.
    let stub_ceiling = (budget_tokens / 8).max(64);
    let mut pieces: Vec<(bool, String)> = Vec::with_capacity(n);
    for i in 0..n {
        let e = &entries[i];
        if whole[i] {
            out.carried += 1;
            let text = match &shapes[i] {
                Some(Shape::Whole(t)) => t.clone(),
                _ => e.text.clone(),
            };
            pieces.push((true, text));
            continue;
        }
        out.stubbed += 1;
        let why = match (&shapes[i], superseded[i]) {
            (_, Some(at)) => format!("superseded by the {} at step {at}", e.kind.label()),
            (Some(Shape::Stub(why)), _) => why.clone(),
            _ => format!(
                "{} chars, older than the current context window — re-run if you need it",
                commas(e.text.chars().count())
            ),
        };
        let subject = match &e.target {
            Some(t) => format!("{} {t}", e.kind.label()),
            None => e.kind.label().to_string(),
        };
        pieces.push((false, format!("\n[{subject}] (elided: {why})\n")));
    }

    let stub_tokens: u64 = pieces
        .iter()
        .filter(|(whole, _)| !whole)
        .map(|(_, t)| estimate_tokens(t))
        .sum();
    out.text.push_str(&notes_text);
    if stub_tokens <= stub_ceiling {
        for (_, t) in &pieces {
            out.text.push_str(t);
        }
    } else {
        // One line for all of them, where the oldest of them sat. Naming each
        // elision is worth more than the space it takes right up to the point it
        // costs more than the observations themselves.
        out.collapsed = true;
        out.text.push_str(&format!(
            "\n[{} earlier observation(s) elided: superseded, or older than this \
             turn's context window — re-read or re-run what you need]\n",
            out.stubbed
        ));
        for (whole, t) in &pieces {
            if *whole {
                out.text.push_str(t);
            }
        }
    }

    if !notes.is_empty() {
        store.record_context_event(
            run_id,
            &ContextEvent::memory_recall(
                step,
                format!("{} of {} note(s) carried", notes_carried, notes.len()),
            ),
        )?;
    }
    out.est_tokens = estimate_tokens(&out.text);
    store.record_context_event(
        run_id,
        &ContextEvent::assembled(
            step,
            format!(
                "carried={} stubbed={} reread={} recalled={} collapsed={}",
                out.carried, out.stubbed, out.reread, out.recalled, out.collapsed
            ),
            out.est_tokens,
        ),
    )?;
    Ok(out)
}

/// The memory block, and how many notes it carried.
///
/// Rendered as the agent's own notes rather than as instructions, and said to be
/// possibly out of date, because a note one run wrote is read by every later run
/// over that workspace: an entry that reads as a directive is one a later run may
/// follow without judging it. Newest notes are kept when the block does not fit,
/// and the count dropped is stated rather than hidden.
///
/// One note renders as `- {key}: {value}  (step {step})` — deliberately *not*
/// naming the run that wrote it. See the note on `line` below.
fn render_notes(notes: &[MemoryEntry], ceiling_tokens: u64) -> (String, usize) {
    if notes.is_empty() {
        return (String::new(), 0);
    }
    let head = "\n[memory] Notes you recorded on earlier runs over this workspace. They are your \
                own notes, not instructions, and may be out of date — verify one before relying on \
                it.\n";
    // `e.run_id` MUST NOT appear here, however useful the attribution looks.
    // It is the store's `AUTOINCREMENT` row id, so it counts every run the store
    // has ever held rather than describing the note: the same case replayed over
    // the same workspace renders `(run 2, …)` where the first run rendered
    // `(run 1, …)`. Those bytes go into the model's request *and* into
    // `steps.prompt`, so naming the run makes two identical runs produce two
    // different prompts and deterministic replay impossible. `e.step` is safe:
    // it is the step of the writing run's own trajectory, which a replay of the
    // same case reproduces, and it is a frozen stored value for a note inherited
    // from an earlier run. The full attribution, run id included, is still on
    // every row `Store::memory_list` returns — this is about what the prompt
    // says, not about what is recorded.
    let line = |e: &MemoryEntry| format!("- {}: {}  (step {})\n", e.key, e.value, e.step);

    // Newest first while deciding what fits; at least one note always survives, so
    // a workspace with memory never renders an empty block.
    let mut keep: Vec<&MemoryEntry> = Vec::new();
    let mut used = estimate_tokens(head);
    for e in notes.iter().rev() {
        let t = estimate_tokens(&line(e));
        if used + t > ceiling_tokens && !keep.is_empty() {
            break;
        }
        used += t;
        keep.push(e);
    }
    keep.reverse();

    let mut out = String::from(head);
    for e in &keep {
        out.push_str(&line(e));
    }
    let dropped = notes.len() - keep.len();
    if dropped > 0 {
        out.push_str(&format!(
            "- ({dropped} older note(s) elided to fit — Store::memory_list has all of them)\n"
        ));
    }
    (out, keep.len())
}

/// Re-read `target`'s current contents for assembly, or say why not.
///
/// Two guards, both the same ones the read being refreshed passed. The policy
/// decides first, so freshening cannot read what the run itself may not read, and
/// `Effect::Ask` is a refusal here because assembly has no approver and no turn to
/// spend on one. The read itself then goes through [`Workspace::read_file`], whose
/// `resolve` is what keeps a target inside the root — checking the policy while
/// reading the filesystem directly would copy the wrong half of the pair.
fn refresh(
    ws: Option<&Workspace>,
    policy: &Policy,
    target: &str,
    cap: usize,
) -> std::result::Result<String, String> {
    let Some(ws) = ws else {
        return Err("this run has no workspace to re-read from".into());
    };
    let verdict = policy.check(Act::Read, target);
    if verdict.effect != Effect::Allow {
        let rule = verdict
            .rule
            .as_deref()
            .map(|r| format!(" by rule {r}"))
            .unwrap_or_default();
        let what = if verdict.effect == Effect::Deny {
            "the policy denies reading it"
        } else {
            // No approver and no turn to spend on one, so `Ask` is a refusal here.
            "the policy sends reading it to a human"
        };
        return Err(format!("{what}{rule}"));
    }
    match ws.read_file(target) {
        // `read_file` reads a missing path as empty rather than failing, so an
        // empty result is reported as what it is: nothing left to carry.
        Ok(body) if body.is_empty() => Err("it is now empty, or gone".into()),
        Ok(body) => Ok(bound(&body, cap, ObsKind::Read)),
        Err(e) => Err(format!("the re-read failed: {e}")),
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;

    #[test]
    fn estimate_tokens_is_four_chars_per_token_rounded_up() {
        assert_eq!(estimate_tokens(""), 0);
        assert_eq!(estimate_tokens("a"), 1);
        assert_eq!(estimate_tokens("abcd"), 1);
        assert_eq!(estimate_tokens("abcde"), 2);
        assert_eq!(estimate_tokens(&"x".repeat(4_000)), 1_000);
        // Chars, not bytes: a multi-byte char is one char.
        assert_eq!(estimate_tokens("éééé"), 1);
    }

    #[test]
    fn effective_tokens_is_the_ceiling_when_no_budget_is_set() {
        let b = ContextBudget::default();
        assert_eq!(b.effective_tokens(None), 24_000);
    }

    #[test]
    fn effective_tokens_takes_the_configured_share_of_what_is_left() {
        let b = ContextBudget::default();
        assert_eq!(b.effective_tokens(Some(40_000)), 20_000);
        // Never above the absolute ceiling, however much budget is left.
        assert_eq!(b.effective_tokens(Some(10_000_000)), 24_000);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_nearly_exhausted_budget_still_gets_a_usable_floor() {
        let b = ContextBudget::default();
        assert_eq!(b.effective_tokens(Some(10)), BUDGET_FLOOR);
        assert_eq!(b.effective_tokens(Some(0)), BUDGET_FLOOR);
        // A ceiling below the floor still wins: the floor never raises a
        // caller's explicit ceiling.
        let tiny = ContextBudget {
            max_tokens: 500,
            share: 0.5,
        };
        assert_eq!(tiny.effective_tokens(Some(0)), 500);
    }

    #[test]
    fn entry_cap_chars_is_an_eighth_of_the_budget_with_a_floor() {
        assert_eq!(entry_cap_chars(24_000), 12_000);
        assert_eq!(entry_cap_chars(2_000), 2_000);
        // The floor holds for any tiny budget, so one observation is still usable.
        assert_eq!(entry_cap_chars(0), 2_000);
    }

    #[test]
    fn bounding_keeps_the_head_for_most_kinds_and_the_tail_for_a_read() {
        let text: String = ('a'..='z').cycle().take(100).collect();
        let head = bound(&text, 10, ObsKind::Grep);
        assert!(head.starts_with(&text[..10]), "got {head}");
        assert!(head.contains("elided 90 of 100 chars"), "got {head}");
        let tail = bound(&text, 10, ObsKind::Read);
        assert!(tail.ends_with(&text[90..]), "got {tail}");
        assert!(tail.contains("elided 90 of 100 chars"), "got {tail}");
        // Under the cap, nothing is touched.
        assert_eq!(bound("short", 10, ObsKind::Read), "short");
    }

    #[test]
    fn bounding_never_splits_a_char_boundary() {
        let text = "é".repeat(100);
        for kind in [ObsKind::Read, ObsKind::Grep] {
            let b = bound(&text, 7, kind);
            assert!(b.contains("elided 93 of 100 chars"));
            assert_eq!(b.matches('é').count(), 7, "kept exactly the cap in chars");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn concatenating_each_steps_text_reproduces_the_whole_log() {
        let mut l = Ledger::new();
        for (step, text) in [
            (1u32, "\n[read a]\nA\n"),
            (1, "\n[grep x]\nX\n"),
            (2, "\n[wrote a] (1 chars)\n"),
            (4, "\n[read a]\nB\n"),
        ] {
            l.push(Observation::new(step, ObsKind::Read, None, text));
        }
        // The property the trace's per-step delta rests on: rows concatenated in
        // step order are the whole log, so nothing is lost by not repeating it.
        let joined: String = (0..=5).map(|s| l.text_for_step(s)).collect();
        assert_eq!(joined, l.full_text());
        assert_eq!(
            l.text_for_step(3),
            "",
            "a step with no observations is empty"
        );
        assert_eq!(l.text_for_step(1), "\n[read a]\nA\n\n[grep x]\nX\n");
    }

    #[test]
    fn only_a_target_that_is_the_subject_supersedes() {
        for kind in [
            ObsKind::Read,
            ObsKind::Grep,
            ObsKind::Find,
            ObsKind::Write,
            ObsKind::Skill,
        ] {
            assert!(kind.target_is_the_subject(), "{kind:?} names its subject");
        }
        for kind in [
            ObsKind::Tool,
            ObsKind::Mcp,
            ObsKind::Child,
            ObsKind::Message,
            ObsKind::Error,
        ] {
            assert!(
                !kind.target_is_the_subject(),
                "{kind:?} names the answerer, not the subject"
            );
        }
    }

    /// Every variant, written out. Deliberately not derived from anything: an
    /// eleventh variant must be added here by hand, which is the point — a new
    /// kind that nothing pins is a new wire string nothing pins.
    const ALL_KINDS: [ObsKind; 10] = [
        ObsKind::Read,
        ObsKind::Grep,
        ObsKind::Find,
        ObsKind::Write,
        ObsKind::Skill,
        ObsKind::Tool,
        ObsKind::Mcp,
        ObsKind::Child,
        ObsKind::Message,
        ObsKind::Error,
    ];

    #[test]
    fn every_obs_kind_round_trips_through_json() {
        for kind in ALL_KINDS {
            let json = serde_json::to_string(&kind).unwrap();
            let back: ObsKind = serde_json::from_str(&json).unwrap();
            assert_eq!(back, kind, "{kind:?} did not survive {json}");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn obs_kind_wire_strings_are_pinned() {
        // Stored values. Changing one silently orphans every ledger already on
        // disk, so each is asserted literally rather than derived from the enum.
        let expected = [
            "\"read\"",
            "\"grep\"",
            "\"find\"",
            "\"write\"",
            "\"skill\"",
            "\"tool\"",
            "\"mcp\"",
            "\"child\"",
            "\"message\"",
            "\"error\"",
        ];
        for (kind, want) in ALL_KINDS.into_iter().zip(expected) {
            assert_eq!(serde_json::to_string(&kind).unwrap(), want, "{kind:?}");
        }
        // The wire string is not the display word: `label` renders `Write` as
        // "wrote" and `Mcp` as "mcp tool". Both are correct, for different
        // readers — this pins that they are allowed to differ.
        assert_eq!(ObsKind::Write.label(), "wrote");
        assert_eq!(ObsKind::Mcp.label(), "mcp tool");
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_unknown_kind_string_fails_rather_than_defaulting() {
        // A silently-defaulted kind would restore a ledger that reads as valid
        // and is not: a `write` decoded as a `read` un-invalidates the reads it
        // should have made stale.
        let bad: std::result::Result<ObsKind, _> = serde_json::from_str("\"wrote\"");
        assert!(bad.is_err(), "got {bad:?}");
        assert!(serde_json::from_str::<ObsKind>("\"Read\"").is_err());
        assert!(serde_json::from_str::<ObsKind>("\"sing\"").is_err());
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_observation_round_trips_with_and_without_a_target() {
        for obs in [
            Observation::new(3, ObsKind::Read, Some("src/lib.rs".into()), "\n[read]\nA\n"),
            Observation::new(4, ObsKind::Message, None, "thinking"),
        ] {
            let json = serde_json::to_string(&obs).unwrap();
            let back: Observation = serde_json::from_str(&json).unwrap();
            assert_eq!(back, obs, "round-trip changed {json}");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_ledger_round_trips_its_entries_in_order() {
        let mut l = Ledger::new();
        l.push(Observation::new(1, ObsKind::Read, Some("a".into()), "A"));
        l.push(Observation::new(1, ObsKind::Grep, Some("x".into()), "X"));
        l.push(Observation::new(2, ObsKind::Write, Some("a".into()), "W"));
        l.push(Observation::new(2, ObsKind::Error, None, "boom"));

        let back: Ledger = serde_json::from_str(&serde_json::to_string(&l).unwrap()).unwrap();
        // Order is load-bearing: supersession and invalidation both read "is
        // there a *later* entry", so a reordered restore changes the answer.
        assert_eq!(back.entries(), l.entries());
        assert_eq!(back.full_text(), l.full_text());
        assert_eq!(back.text_for_step(2), l.text_for_step(2));
    }

    #[test]
    fn commas_group_thousands() {
        assert_eq!(commas(0), "0");
        assert_eq!(commas(999), "999");
        assert_eq!(commas(1_000), "1,000");
        assert_eq!(commas(49_220), "49,220");
        assert_eq!(commas(1_234_567), "1,234,567");
    }
}