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Stream adapters limited retained content by how many deltas the provider sent. Providers choose how finely they chunk a stream, and fine-grained tool streaming sends dozens of deltas per second. So a delta count works as a wall-clock limit:

Adapter Limit Effect
Anthropic tool input 4,096 partial_json deltas per tool call Any tool input that streams for more than ~110s (Haiku ≈ 37 deltas/s) failed with Provider stream failed
Anthropic text / thinking 8,192 retained deltas Long answers or reasoning failed at roughly 220s
Google every streamed text chunk retained as its own raw part (8,192 items) Long Gemini answers failed on chunk count
OpenAI already bounded by bytes (fixed earlier for the same reason) unchanged

In production this failed every scheduled agentic-email-processing-outlook ingestion that saved a large email through a tool call. It affects self-managed runtimes too, because the limit sits in the framework, not in the network.

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  • New shared primitive in veryfront/provider/shared (src/provider/runtime-loader/stream-retention.ts):
    • reserveStreamRetention bounds retained content by UTF-8 bytes. It counts only zero-byte fragments, the only ones that can arrive without advancing the byte budget. This is the rule OpenAI's tool-argument budget already used, made reusable.
    • StreamFragmentBuffer compacts every 256 fragments, so storage stays proportional to content. Millions of one-byte deltas do not become millions of array entries.
  • Anthropic uses it for tool input and for retained text and thinking. The byte limits are unchanged (1 MiB per tool input, 16 MiB retained).
  • OpenAI appendOpenAIStreamToolArgument delegates to the shared rule. Behavior is unchanged.
  • Google merges adjacent unsigned text chunks (same thought flag, no other fields) into one raw replay part, bounded by bytes. Parts with thought signatures or other data are never merged. The retained-item cap now counts only real structural parts.
  • Regenerated docs/api-reference/veryfront/provider.md for the new exports.

Any future adapter should retain streamed content through these helpers rather than a per-delta counter.

Related Issue(s)

Fixes veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#1627
Part of veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#1622

Verification

  • Regression tests, one per adapter path. Each streams 20,000 small deltas through the path and asserts full reassembly:
    • Anthropic: tool input, text, and thinking.
    • OpenAI Chat Completions: tool arguments and text.
    • OpenAI Responses: reasoning, function arguments, and text.
    • Google: text, including exact-replay metadata merged into one raw part.
  • Existing flood guards still hold, and are now tested explicitly: more than 4,096 empty partial_json deltas, more than 8,192 empty text deltas, and more than 8,192 Google parts that cannot be merged are all still rejected. Byte limits are still enforced, including for merged Google text.
  • Suites: ext-llm-anthropic 291 steps, ext-llm-openai 166, ext-llm-google 114, src/provider 341, all passing. typecheck, docs:api-reference:check, docs:errors:check and pre-push (fmt, lint, check) pass.
  • End to end against the real gateway. A 196s production-shaped Anthropic stream (forced tool_use, fine-grained-tool-streaming-2025-05-14, 7,386 input_json_delta events, stop_reason: tool_use) was captured and replayed through the parser:
    v0.1.1259   THREW RangeError: Anthropic partial_json exceeded 4096 deltas (at 4,096)
    this branch COMPLETED, 7,386 tool-input deltas, tool call assembled
    
  • docs:validate reports a violation in docs/api-reference/veryfront/agent.md:2004 (createManagedBrokerHandler). This branch does not touch that file, so it is pre-existing on main.

Follow-ups (not in this PR)

  • The hidden cause: the RangeError was swallowed behind Provider stream failed and a span labelled Error/Error (veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#1615).
  • When a generation hits max_tokens mid-tool-call, Anthropic sends message_delta without content_block_stop. The parser reports message_delta was out of sequence instead of ProviderOutputTruncatedError.

Type of Change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Documentation update
  • Code refactoring
  • Performance improvement
  • Test update

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  • I have made corresponding changes to the documentation (if applicable)
  • I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Improvements

    • Streaming responses now handle very large numbers of small text, reasoning, and tool-input fragments more reliably.
    • Retained stream data is bounded by content size rather than fragment frequency, reducing unnecessary failures during long responses.
    • Streamed tool arguments and text are reassembled correctly while preserving configured retention limits.
  • Documentation

    • Added provider API documentation for stream-retention controls and related public utilities.

Stream adapters capped retained content by the number of deltas the
provider sent. Providers choose how finely they chunk a stream, and
fine-grained tool streaming sends dozens of deltas per second, so a
delta count is a wall-clock limit in disguise:

- Anthropic: a tool input failed after 4,096 partial_json deltas (about
  110 s of Claude Haiku tool streaming), and text or thinking failed
  after 8,192 deltas.
- Google: every streamed text chunk was retained as its own raw part,
  capped at 8,192 retained items.

Add a shared stream-retention primitive to veryfront/provider/shared.
It bounds retained content by UTF-8 bytes, counts only zero-byte
fragments (the only ones that can arrive without advancing the byte
budget), and compacts accumulated fragments so storage stays
proportional to content. Anthropic adopts it for tool input and
retained text/thinking, OpenAI's tool-argument budget now delegates to
it (unchanged behavior), and Google merges adjacent unsigned text
chunks into one raw replay part.

Every adapter now has a regression test that streams 20,000 small
deltas through its text, reasoning, and tool-input paths.
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The change adds shared UTF-8 byte and empty-fragment retention utilities. Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI stream handlers use these utilities for bounded retention and fragment assembly. Tests cover long streams, byte limits, empty fragments, and raw-part merging.

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Stream retention foundation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared retention primitives
src/provider/runtime-loader/stream-retention.ts, src/provider/runtime-loader/stream-retention.test.ts, src/provider/shared/index.ts, docs/api-reference/veryfront/provider.md
Adds retention budgets, reservation checks, StreamFragmentBuffer, shared exports, tests, and API documentation.

Anthropic stream integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Anthropic stream retention
extensions/ext-llm-anthropic/src/anthropic-stream.ts, extensions/ext-llm-anthropic/src/anthropic-stream.test.ts
Uses shared budgets and buffers for tool input, text, thinking, and retained content. Tests cover 20,000 non-empty deltas and empty-fragment limits.

Google raw text retention

Layer / File(s) Summary
Google raw-part assembly
extensions/ext-llm-google/src/google-stream.ts, extensions/ext-llm-google/src/google-stream.test.ts
Merges compatible adjacent text chunks into buffered raw parts and validates byte and retained-part limits.

OpenAI tool argument retention

Layer / File(s) Summary
OpenAI argument accounting
extensions/ext-llm-openai/src/openai-tool-input.ts, extensions/ext-llm-openai/src/openai-chat-stream.ts, extensions/ext-llm-openai/src/openai-responses-stream.ts, extensions/ext-llm-openai/src/openai-tool-input.test.ts, extensions/ext-llm-openai/src/openai-chat-stream.test.ts, extensions/ext-llm-openai/src/openai-responses-stream.test.ts
Delegates tool argument accounting to shared retention reservations and tests long chat and responses streams.

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ProviderStream
  participant RetentionBudget
  participant FragmentBuffer
  participant RetainedState
  ProviderStream->>RetentionBudget: reserve fragment bytes or empty-fragment count
  RetentionBudget-->>ProviderStream: accept or report overflow
  ProviderStream->>FragmentBuffer: append accepted content
  FragmentBuffer-->>RetainedState: provide assembled retained content
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Google streams can retain oversized replay metadata or process unbounded empty text fragments. Restore accurate accounting and the empty-fragment flood guard before merging.

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Code Review: 89/100 — Good, minor suggestions

Well-diagnosed fix that replaces a per-delta counter with a shared byte-bounded retention primitive across all three provider stream adapters, backed by strong regression coverage and a real production-stream replay.

Strengths

  • Root cause is precisely identified and explained (fine-grained tool streaming ≈ dozens of deltas/sec, so a delta-count cap is really a ~110s wall-clock cap) — this is exactly the kind of finding you want in a bug-fix PR, not just a patched symptom.
  • reserveStreamRetention / StreamFragmentBuffer in src/provider/runtime-loader/stream-retention.ts is a clean, minimal shared primitive; OpenAI's existing byte-bounded logic (which already worked) is correctly generalized instead of reimplemented per-adapter.
  • Test coverage is thorough: 20,000-delta regression tests per adapter path (Anthropic tool input/text/thinking, OpenAI chat & responses, Google text), plus unit tests for the primitive itself, plus the existing flood guards re-verified as empty-fragment floods rather than content floods.
  • The Google merge logic (retainRawTextPart) correctly restricts merging to adjacent, same-thought, no-extra-field text parts (checked via isMergeableTextPart + run.index === rawAssistantParts.length - 1), so parts with thoughtSignature or other metadata are never silently merged — good attention to a subtle correctness edge.
  • The PR description includes an end-to-end replay of a real 196s/7,386-delta production stream showing the old code throwing and the new code succeeding — strong verification beyond unit tests.

Concerns

  • OpenAIStreamToolArgumentBudget's field was renamed fragments → emptyFragments (it's now a type alias for the shared StreamRetentionBudget), and this type is part of the documented API surface (docs/api-reference/veryfront/provider.md is regenerated). If any downstream/self-managed code constructs this budget object by hand rather than via appendOpenAIStreamToolArgument, this is a breaking change that isn't called out as such in the PR description — worth a one-line note (or changelog/semver flag) even if you judge the practical blast radius to be near zero.
  • The public function appendOpenAIStreamToolArgument still returns the literal "fragments" (not "empty-fragments") for backward compatibility with its own call sites, while the internal StreamRetentionOverflow type uses "empty-fragments". Intentional and reasonable, but a short comment at that mapping point would save the next reader a double-take.

Neither concern blocks merging — both are minor and easy to address with a comment or PR-description addendum rather than a code change.


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Merging adjacent text chunks shrank the raw-part count that anonymous
function calls use for their fallback id, so the same stream produced
different ids and could collide with a provider-supplied one. Track each
retained part's original stream position, derive fallback ids from it,
and emit the positions as rawAssistantPartIndexes so replay derives the
same ids. Part indexes only need to increase; the part-count cap still
bounds how many parts are stored.

Charge merged text by its JSON-escaped size, as whole parts are charged,
and count empty merged chunks against the retained-item limit.
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Content blocks and citations create state per value, so they stay
capped by count as well as by bytes. Only streamed text and thinking
deltas use the byte-bounded rule, where empty deltas alone count
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