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What

Two things, both prerequisites for the fixed-prefix work in tinyhumansai/openhuman:

1. Prompt cache breakpoints (edda552f6d6496). Adds a cache-breakpoint content block to the message model and carries it through the OpenAI translation layer:

  • feat(message): add cache breakpoint content block
  • feat(openai): support prompt cache breakpoints
  • fix(openai): preserve cache breakpoints in message content
  • fix(openai): limit cache breakpoints to provider maximum — providers cap how many breakpoints a request may carry; exceeding it is a request error, so the translation clamps rather than passing them all through.
  • fix(harness): ignore cache breakpoints in message processing — the harness must not treat a breakpoint as content when it walks a transcript.
  • test(openai): cover prompt-cache breakpoint serialization
  • refactor(openai): use a relative import for message translation

2. chore(vendor): bump tinytools for ToolExposure (485703f). Pins the ToolExposure addition.

Dependency

Blocked on tinyhumansai/tinytools#3. The gitlink in 485703f points at that PR's branch commit; merge tinytools first, then this needs its gitlink re-pointed at tinytools main before merge.

Why the breakpoints matter

A turn's fixed prefix — system prompt plus every advertised tool schema — is re-sent on every request. On OpenHuman's orchestrator that was ~19k tokens before the user had said anything. Explicit breakpoints are what let a provider cache that prefix instead of re-reading it each turn, so this is the other half of the work that shrinks the prefix itself.

Testing

cargo test. The serialization test covers the block surviving a round trip and the provider-maximum clamp.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added prompt cache breakpoints to mark stable, reusable portions of conversations.
    • Supported ephemeral cache markers in compatible provider requests, including system prompts and multiple content sections.
    • Automatically preserves up to four cache breakpoints per request.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Cache markers no longer affect message length estimates, summaries, or user-turn detection.
    • Requests without cache markers retain their existing format and behavior.
    • Invalid leading markers are safely ignored.

senamakel and others added 8 commits August 31, 2026 15:26
Add a provider-neutral marker for explicitly identifying stable prompt prefixes for caching. Providers that do not support explicit breakpoints can ignore it without changing their wire format.

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Add optional cache control metadata to text content parts, enabling declared prompt-cache breakpoints while preserving the existing serialization for requests without them. Model the currently supported ephemeral cache lifetime as a typed wire enum.

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Route system content through block translation and represent cache breakpoints on OpenAI content parts. This preserves cache directives instead of silently dropping them while validating unsupported breakpoint placement.

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Trim excess cache breakpoints to the provider’s maximum of four while retaining the longest cached prefixes. Emit a warning when prompt assembly declares too many breakpoints instead of allowing the request to fail.

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Treat cache breakpoints as zero-length, omit them from summaries, and prevent them from satisfying user-query checks so they do not trigger premature compaction or render empty turns.

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Add coverage for preserving bare string content without breakpoints, emitting cache controls at valid breakpoints, enforcing provider limits, and keeping markers out of message text.

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Update the cache breakpoint tests to reference the translation helper through the local module hierarchy without changing behavior.

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Adds ContentBlock::CacheBreakpoint as a zero-width marker. OpenAI conversion serializes supported breakpoints as ephemeral cache-control metadata, enforces a four-breakpoint limit, and adds coverage for system and user messages.

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Cache breakpoint support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Breakpoint model and handling
src/harness/message/types.rs, src/harness/message/mod.rs, src/harness/summarization/render.rs, src/harness/tool/prompt.rs
Defines ContentBlock::CacheBreakpoint and excludes it from character weight, summaries, and resolvable user-query checks.
OpenAI cache-control translation
src/harness/providers/openai/types.rs, src/harness/providers/openai/convert.rs
Adds ephemeral cache-control wire data, translates system breakpoints, marks preceding text parts, and limits emitted breakpoints to four.
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src/harness/providers/openai/test.rs
Tests breakpoint serialization, ordering, limits, leading markers, unchanged string output, and Message::text().

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The CacheBreakpoint content block carries no semantic information relevant to either summarization or user query resolution, so filtering it out in the render step and marking it as false in the resolvable check was redundant. Removing these branches simplifies the code without changing behavior.

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Update the pinned commit of the tinytools vendored dependency to incorporate upstream changes.

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