feat: flush memory before context compaction - #3897
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds configurable pre-compaction memory flushing for synchronous and asynchronous compaction. The feature previews removable history, extracts bounded transcripts, uses restricted child agents, stages memory writes, and keeps flush failures non-fatal. ChangesPre-compaction memory flushing
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Mergeability Score: 🔵 Low · up to This change adds optional memory flushing before compaction, but overflowing staged memory batches may discard important items and tracing may report stores that were not persisted. These are bounded correctness and observability risks that require owner awareness, but they are not merge-blocking. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ChatMixin
participant ContextCompactor
participant MemoryFlushRunner
participant ChildAgent
participant FileMemory
ChatMixin->>ContextCompactor: preview_older_slice(messages)
ContextCompactor-->>ChatMixin: older message slice
ChatMixin->>MemoryFlushRunner: run pre-compaction flush
MemoryFlushRunner->>ChildAgent: submit bounded transcript
ChildAgent->>FileMemory: stage memory writes
MemoryFlushRunner->>FileMemory: commit batch after successful completion
FileMemory-->>MemoryFlushRunner: committed memory result
MemoryFlushRunner-->>ChatMixin: MemoryFlushResult
ChatMixin->>ContextCompactor: compact(messages)
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Greptile SummaryThe PR adds an opt-in memory flush before context compaction and follow-up changes now align its preview with actual budget-driven removals while making file-memory commits cancellation-safe and atomic.
Confidence Score: 5/5The PR appears safe to merge. No blocking failure remains.
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| src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/compaction/memory_flush.py | Adds bounded flush orchestration with daemonized synchronous execution, async timeout handling, staged writes, and cancellation-gated commits. |
| src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/compaction/compactor.py | Adds a non-mutating preview that mirrors truncation and sliding-window boundaries, including token-budget removals and tool-call pair snapping. |
| src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/memory/file_memory.py | Adds single-file atomic batch persistence using a temporary payload and guarded replacement, rejecting cross-file batches before mutation. |
| src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/agent/chat_mixin.py | Wires the optional flush into synchronous and asynchronous compaction paths before transcript mutation. |
| src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/config/feature_configs.py | Defines the default-off flush configuration and its execution settings. |
| src/praisonai-agents/tests/unit/compaction/test_memory_flush.py | Covers preview boundaries, timeout cancellation, late-write prevention, atomic batches, and failure isolation. |
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participant Agent
participant Compactor
participant Flush as Flush child
participant Stage as Staged memory
participant File as FileMemory
Agent->>Compactor: preview_older_slice(messages)
Compactor-->>Agent: potentially discarded prefix
Agent->>Flush: run bounded extraction
Flush->>Stage: stage memory writes
alt completed before deadline
Stage->>File: commit_memory_batch
File->>File: prepare temporary JSON
File->>File: cancellation-gated os.replace
Agent->>Compactor: compact(messages)
else timeout or failure
Agent->>Stage: cancel and discard writes
Agent->>Compactor: continue compaction
end
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- run the sync flush in a daemon thread so a timed-out worker never blocks interpreter shutdown (Greptile P1) - make preview_older_slice a safe superset covering token-budget-driven removals (SLIDING / TRUNCATE second pass), not just preserve_recent, so durable facts in budget-dropped messages are still offered to the flush (Greptile P1) - add coverage for daemon-thread timeout and budget-boundary preview Co-authored-by: Mervin Praison <MervinPraison@users.noreply.github.com>
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In `@src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/config/feature_configs.py`:
- Around line 754-760: In
src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/config/feature_configs.py:754-760, update
PreCompactionMemoryFlushConfig.__post_init__ to reject non-finite
timeout_seconds values; also reject non-finite
PRAISONAI_PRE_COMPACTION_FLUSH_TIMEOUT during environment parsing. In
src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/compaction/memory_flush.py:228-243, replace
the non-cancellable ThreadPoolExecutor timeout approach with cooperative
cancellation or an isolatable worker so child.start() cannot continue writing to
the shared memory store after timeout. Add tests covering finite synchronous
timeouts and inf environment input.
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`@src/praisonai-agents/tests/integration/test_pre_compaction_memory_flush_real.py`:
- Around line 40-46: Update the integration test to invoke the normal agent
execution path through agent.start() using a real prompt that triggers
compaction, rather than calling _run_pre_compaction_memory_flush directly; print
the complete start() output and retain the long-term-memory assertion.
In `@src/praisonai-agents/tests/unit/compaction/test_memory_flush.py`:
- Around line 171-190: Update test_async_timeout_is_non_fatal to mock
asyncio.wait_for so it raises asyncio.TimeoutError, replacing the slow_start
sleep-based timing approach. Keep the existing assertions for the timeout reason
and incomplete result.
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In `@src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/compaction/compactor.py`:
- Around line 533-555: Update the early-return logic in the compaction method
containing count_cut and budget_kept: when len(other_messages) <=
self.preserve_recent, set count_cut to zero but continue the token-budget
calculation. Return an empty preview only if both the count boundary and budget
boundary remove no messages, and add a regression test covering a retained
suffix that still exceeds target_tokens.
Apply the same fix in
`@src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/compaction/compactor.py` around lines 558 -
562: Covers the second-pass tool-pair removal mismatch.
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In `@src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/compaction/memory_flush.py`:
- Line 249: Update the flush flow around staged_memory.commit() and the
synchronous compaction at lines 307-314 so all memory writes and compaction
share the original flush deadline. Propagate the remaining timeout into each
store_* operation, use cancellable async or backend-timed I/O instead of
blocking the event loop, and only report a timed-out flush after pending writes
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In `@src/praisonai-agents/tests/unit/compaction/test_memory_flush.py`:
- Around line 242-273: Update the timeout test around
run_pre_compaction_flush_sync to model backend persistence occurring only after
release, then assert the parent backend remains unchanged after the timeout
result and release. Make the staged_memory.commit path deadline-aware so an
in-flight synchronous store cannot persist after cancellation, or remove the
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390-397: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueEmit trace events only for persisted items.
The limit pass at lines 347-352 can remove staged items from
items.committed_itemsstill contains them, so the trace stream reports stores that are not in the persisted payload.♻️ Filter trace events by persisted ids
+ persisted_ids = {item.id for item in items} for item in committed_items: + if item.id not in persisted_ids: + continue self._emit_memory_event( "store", memory_type, len(item.content), metadata=item.metadata, )
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In `@src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/memory/file_memory.py`:
- Around line 345-352: Update commit_memory_batch to handle overflowing
short-term items consistently with add_short_term by applying auto-promotion
before trimming, while preserving the single-file atomic guarantee;
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In `@src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/memory/file_memory.py`:
- Around line 390-397: Update the trace-event loop in the memory persistence
flow to emit “store” events only for items whose IDs remain in the final
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Claude finished @MervinPraison's task —— View job Final Architecture Review — PR #3897 ✅
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Verdict: ✅ ApproveLightweight, default-off, async-safe, security-conscious, and genuinely strengthens the SDK. All blocking P1s resolved; the remaining observability gap is now fixed. The 3 pre-existing (Claude cannot submit a formal GitHub approval; this is a review recommendation for the maintainer.) Job run · branch |
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PreCompactionMemoryFlushConfigwith YAML/dict round-trip and environment overridesTests
python -m pytest tests/unit/compaction/test_memory_flush.py tests/unit/test_compaction_wiring.py -q(21 passed)python -m pytest tests/unit/config -q(214 passed)python -m pytest tests/integration/test_pre_compaction_memory_flush_real.py -q(1 skipped; requiresRUN_REAL_KEY_TESTS=1)python -m pytest tests/unit/compaction/test_compaction.py -q(42 passed, 3 existing failures reproduced unchanged onupstream/main)Closes #3760
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