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fix(claude): word context overflow as "prompt is too long" so Claude Code compacts - #6778
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Roadmap and diff-level phase docs for treating long-window models as 1M on Claude surfaces, the prompt-is-too-long recovery they rely on, and a 200k accounting opt-in. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…Code compacts Claude Code recovers from an oversized prompt only when the API error says "prompt is too long" (or "input is too long for requested model"); it then compacts reactively. Routed providers word the refusal their own way, so the session ended on a fatal error instead. anthropicErrorBody now rewrites a context_length_exceeded message into that form, carrying token counts only when the upstream states both. The native Messages lane does the same for a configured provider's 400/413 refusal and its streamed or folded error frames, without changing the envelope shape; a 429 that mentions tokens stays a rate limit, and Anthropic pools skip the stream rewrite. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…low rewrite Review follow-up. The shared classifier files a "too many tokens per minute" 429 under context_length_exceeded; worded as an overflow it would make Claude Code compact instead of wait, so throughput wording keeps its text. The native stream rewrite buffers whole SSE frames. Placed before the log tap it made stall detection time complete frames instead of raw bytes, so a slow but alive frame could be cut. It now runs after the tap. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| // compacts only on Anthropic's wording (devlog/_plan/261009_claude_1m_default/010). The | ||
| // rewrite buffers whole frames, so it sits after the tap: stall detection keeps timing raw | ||
| // upstream bytes. Real Anthropic pools refuse pre-stream in that wording and keep one relay. | ||
| const clientStream = nativeInstance ? relayed : relaySseWithPayloadRewrite(relayed, claudeOverflowSsePayload, translatorBudget); |
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When a key-auth provider is configured under the reserved name anthropic with a custom gateway baseUrl, configuredAnthropicInstance() still returns "anthropic" unconditionally, so this branch skips the payload rewrite even though that gateway may emit non-Anthropic overflow wording. As a result, the same provider's non-streaming 400/413 response is normalized while its streamed context_length_exceeded event remains unrecognized by Claude Code and does not trigger compaction. Exempt only verified first-party Anthropic transports, or apply the idempotent rewrite to all native streams.
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- Line 124: Update isThroughputLimitText and THROUGHPUT_LIMIT_TEXT_RE so slash-
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| * tokens" match also catches "too many tokens per minute"). Worded as an overflow it would make | ||
| * Claude Code compact a conversation that only needs to wait, so it keeps its own text. | ||
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| const THROUGHPUT_LIMIT_TEXT_RE = /\bper (?:second|minute|hour|day)\b|\brate limit|\bquota\b|\btpm\b/i; |
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Preserve throughput wording for slash and hyphen limit formats.
If a provider returns too many tokens/minute as a sized SSE error, isContextOverflowText matches too many tokens, but isThroughputLimitText does not match the throughput unit. claudeOverflowSsePayload then changes the error to prompt is too long. A context_length_exceeded envelope with the same text follows the same incorrect path through anthropicErrorBody. Claude Code can compact the conversation for a limit that requires waiting, not compaction. Recognize common throughput separators and units, including tokens/minute and rate-limit, and add both formats to the pass-through tests in tests/claude-integration/claude-prompt-too-long.test.ts. The PR objective requires throughput-limit errors to retain their wording.
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Update isThroughputLimitText and THROUGHPUT_LIMIT_TEXT_RE so slash- and
hyphen-separated limits such as tokens/minute and rate-limit are recognized and
their original wording passes through instead of being rewritten as a context
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Claude Code compacts reactively only when an oversized-prompt refusal is worded the way the Anthropic API words it: its classifier looks for
prompt is too long(orinput is too long for requested model) and readsprompt is too long: <actual> tokens > <limit> maximumfor the gap (checked in the 2.1.288 binary, which also carries a gateway note saying the client's auto-compact keys on that text). opencodex already classifies the refusal (context_length_exceeded, HTTP 400), but it keeps the provider's own wording (Your input exceeds the context window,PROVIDER_INPUT_TOO_LARGE_MESSAGE, ...). So a Claude Code session that outgrows a routed model's window ends on a fatal error instead of compacting.anthropicErrorBodyrewrites acontext_length_exceededmessage into Anthropic's wording. Token counts are carried over only when the upstream states both of them. This one builder covers the translated SSE/JSON/HTTP paths and the direct Messages encoder.codeor overflow wording) and for its streamed or folded error frames. The envelope shape stays the same. The stream rewrite runs after the log tap so stall timing still reads raw bytes, and Anthropic pools skip it.context_length_exceeded("too many tokens per minute") keeps its text, so Claude Code does not compact a conversation that only needs to wait.This is layer 1 of a stack. Layer 2 marks long-window models (for example GPT-6 at 872k) as 1M on Claude surfaces whose runner may lack
CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_COMPACT_WINDOW. This recovery is what keeps that safe. Plan:devlog/_plan/261009_claude_1m_default/(this PR adds it).Stack (merge bottom-up):
claudeCode.contextAccounting: "200k"opt-in (config/API/CLI)prompt is too long← you are hereVerification
bun run typecheck,bun run structure:check,bun run privacy:scanbun test tests/claude-integration/claude-prompt-too-long.test.ts tests/claude-integration/claude-outbound.test.ts tests/responses/protocol-direct-encoders-messages.test.ts tests/claude-integration/messages-native.test.ts tests/claude-integration/messages-native-oauth.test.ts tests/claude-integration/messages-native-scope.test.ts tests/claude-integration/anthropic2-native-routing.test.ts tests/claude-integration/claude-native-passthrough.test.ts tests/server/replay-refusal-parity.test.ts tests/test-layout.test.ts tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts: 421 pass, 0 fail.claude-prompt-too-long.test.ts(16 cases): counts parsed only from the stated request size, Anthropic wording unchanged, throughput limits untouched (unit, translated SSE), native HTTP 400/413/coded, native 429 untouched, streamed and folded native overflow, and a slow-fragment stall regression. The stall regression fails with the rewrite placed before the tap and passes with it after.Checklist
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