[issue-3200][slice-8/10] Threshold reseed (resume-vs-reseed, AC-3)

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Resume-vs-reseed decision at re-invocation, comparing occupancy to the threshold; reseed a fresh session from the protected root, pre-empting CC compaction. None/unknown occupancy and no-warm-session both bias to reseed. Logical deps: slices 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 (all upstream in the serialized chain via slice 7).

Base PR: #3234

What's in this PR

Commits (3):

• Persist BRC history for slice-8 (Slice PRs are missing analysis/plan docs and all BRC history; need a 'context' PR for refine+plan phases plus per-slice BRC in each slice PR #2548)
• implement(BRC context discipline: protected directive root + queryable environment, bounded by a deterministic threshold reseed #3200): resume-vs-reseed decision gate (slice-8, task-8-1)
• implement(BRC context discipline: protected directive root + queryable environment, bounded by a deterministic threshold reseed #3200): test resume-vs-reseed decision boundary (slice-8, task-8-2)

.egg-state/brc-history/3200-implement-slice-8.json | 815 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 .egg-state/brc-history/3200-implement-slice-8.md   | 912 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 shared/egg_agent/__main__.py                       |  16 +-
 shared/egg_agent/reseed.py                         | 232 +++++++++++
 shared/egg_agent/session.py                        |   2 +-
 tests/shared/egg_agent/test_reseed_decision.py     | 413 +++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 2388 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

This slice

Threshold reseed (resume-vs-reseed, AC-3)

Files affected:

• sandbox/
• shared/egg_agent/
• sandbox/tests/
• shared/egg_agent/tests/

Tasks (2) + acceptance criteria

• task-8-1: Implement the resume-vs-reseed decision in the event-pump wrapper: read resumed-session occupancy (phase 1); compute the threshold from the model's real window (phase 2); if occupancy is a known value < threshold, resume the cached session via the phase-6 substrate; if occupancy >= threshold, start a FRESH session seeded only from the protected root (phase 4), relying on JIT re-pull (phase 5). None/unknown occupancy -> bias to RESEED (cheap, safe), NEVER resume-below-threshold (covers non-Claude / sub-200K LiteLLM routes whose usage may be partial/absent). If the phase-6 resume path reports no warm session, fall through to the reseed seed. Fire below CC's ~95% compaction. Reseed expected to fire rarely; do not couple it to within-event growth (tool_output_cap.py's job).
  • Acceptance criteria: Resumes when occupancy is known and < min(400k,0.80*real_window); reseeds from the protected root when occupancy >= threshold OR occupancy is None/unknown OR no warm session; reseeded session contains the protected root and only re-pulled bulk; trigger uses occupancy (cache_read+cache_creation+input), not billed input; None-occupancy and no-warm-session both resolve to a safe reseed, never a lossy resume.
• task-8-2: Tests for the decision boundary: occupancy just-under threshold -> resume; at/over -> reseed-from-root; None/unknown occupancy -> reseed (not resume); no-warm-session -> reseed; the reseeded session carries the protected root and re-pulls bulk on demand; the threshold is computed against the real backend window (no [1m] mis-trigger).
  • Acceptance criteria: Under/at/over + None-occupancy->reseed + no-warm-session->reseed covered; reseed-from-root + JIT-re-pull asserted; real-window threshold asserted; tests pass.

Stack

• Position: slice 8 of 10 in pipeline issue-3200
• Base PR: BRC context discipline (#3200) — pipeline state branch (implementation in slice PRs #3236–#3243) #3234
• Stacked on top of egg/issue-3200/slice-7

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Contract Verification — PR #3251 (issue-3200, slice-8: Threshold reseed / resume-vs-reseed, AC-3)

Verdict: Contract-compliant. Both slice-8 tasks are fully implemented and their acceptance criteria are objectively met. PR is already merged; this is the final contract check.

task-8-1 — resume-vs-reseed decision gate ✅

Implemented in shared/egg_agent/reseed.py (new) + shared/egg_agent/__main__.py wiring.

Acceptance criterion	Evidence
Resume when occupancy known & < min(400k, 0.80*real_window)	decide_session_action resumes only on occupancy < safe_threshold with a real int occupancy (reseed.py:154-181). Threshold from resolve_reseed_threshold → orchestrator.agent_model_resolution.reseed_threshold = min(400_000, int(0.80*real_backend_window)) (agent_model_resolution.py:481-494).
Reseed when occupancy >= threshold OR None/unknown OR no warm session	Explicit branches no_warm_session, no_threshold, unknown_occupancy, at_or_above_threshold — every non-resume path returns session_id=None.
Reseeded session = protected root + JIT re-pull only	Reseed yields ResumeDecision(session_id=None); __main__.py passes resume=None → run_agent cold-starts from the protected root (slice-4) with JIT pull (slice-5).
Trigger uses occupancy (cache_read+cache_creation+input), not billed input	Occupancy sourced from SessionState.window_occupancy, documented as cache_read + cache_creation + input (session.py:89-97).
None-occupancy & no-warm-session → safe reseed, never lossy resume	Both collapse to reseed before any resume branch is reachable; bool occupancy also treated as unknown.

Additional correctness: dark-by-default via EGG_SESSION_RESUME (resume_disabled short-circuit); no hard shared→orchestrator dependency (env override → defensive lazy import → None→safe reseed); never raises.

task-8-2 — decision-boundary tests ✅

tests/shared/egg_agent/test_reseed_decision.py (9 tests) + tests/shared/egg_agent/test_main.py gate-threading update.

Coverage confirmed: under→resume, at→reseed, over→reseed, None→reseed, no-warm-session→reseed (incl. low-occupancy variant), reseed leaks no resume id, and the real-window regression (kimi-k2.7-code[1m]: occupancy between the real ~209,715 threshold and the 400k [1m]-implied floor → reseed; symmetric below-threshold resume).

Ran locally (targeted, per review policy): test_reseed_decision.py + test_main.py → 18 passed. CI on HEAD: 19 checks green.

Notes for the human reviewer (non-blocking)

• The boundary tests resolve the pure core decide_session_action(threshold=…), passing in a threshold the test derives from the merged slice-2 helper. This proves the decision core honors a real-window threshold and that the helper yields a sub-400k value for sub-1M backends — but the production wiring decide_resume_session → resolve_reseed_threshold is not exercised end-to-end for the [1m] case. Production uses the same slice-2 helper, so the risk is low; an integration test of that wiring would close the gap.
• "JIT re-pull asserted" is covered indirectly (reseed yields no resume id ⇒ cold-start path), not via slice-5 mechanics — appropriate for the gate's scope.
• The except TypeError, ValueError: form in the new test file is valid under Python 3.14 (PEP 758, optional parens) and matches existing client.py/tool_output_cap.py usage — verified, not a defect.

Criterion marking

This contract carries no top-level ac-N criteria (acceptance_criteria is empty; criteria live per-task as prose), so egg-contract verify-criterion has no target — and the orchestrator endpoint was unreachable this session regardless. Both per-task criteria are recorded here as verified.

— Authored by egg

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Review: [issue-3200][slice-8/10] Threshold reseed (resume-vs-reseed gate)

Thorough review of the new shared/egg_agent/reseed.py, its wiring into __main__.py, and the slice-8 tests. The core decision logic is correct and the bias-to-reseed design is sound. Two issues warrant changes, plus context worth confirming. (PR is already merged and bot-authored, so this is posted as a comment for the follow-up.)

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1. (Blocking) reseed.py reintroduces the exact bare-stdlib logger fallback that _logging.resolve_logger was built to eliminate — verified TypeError

reseed.py:60-67 builds its logger with the raw stdlib fallback:

try:
    from egg_logging import get_logger
    logger: Any = get_logger("egg-agent")
except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover - stdlib fallback outside the sandbox
    import logging
    logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

…and then at reseed.py:221-231 calls it with structured kwargs:

logger.info(
    "BRC event-pump resume-vs-reseed decision: %s",
    "resume" if decision.resume else "reseed",
    event_type="system", event_subtype="resume_gate_decision",
    resume=..., reason=..., occupancy=..., threshold=..., model=model,
)

When egg_logging is unimportable (the documented "outside the sandbox" case), logger is a plain logging.Logger, and once logging is enabled at INFO this raises:

TypeError: Logger._log() got an unexpected keyword argument 'event_type'

I reproduced this directly. It is masked today only because (a) logger.info short-circuits when the effective level is above INFO, and (b) egg_logging happens to be importable in the sandbox/test env.

This is a direct regression of an established codebase pattern created for this exact failure mode. The sibling module in this same feature, session.py:44-48, carries an explicit comment:

The bare logging.getLogger fallback this replaced raised TypeError on the event_type=/error= kwargs below, which would have defeated the module's "never raise" contract (#3200 review).

session.py uses resolve_logger("egg-agent", __name__) from egg_agent/_logging.py, whose _StdlibLoggerAdapter drops structured kwargs precisely so the fallback never raises. reseed.py ignores that helper and reintroduces the un-hardened pattern — and decide_resume_session's own docstring claims "Never raises," a contract this logger.info violates in the egg_logging-absent + INFO case.

Fix (one line):

from egg_agent._logging import resolve_logger
logger: Any = resolve_logger("egg-agent", __name__)

This is latent (gated behind EGG_SESSION_RESUME being on, since the logger.info is only reached when resume is enabled, plus egg_logging absent), but it is a concrete defect with an established trivial fix and should not ship inconsistent with its sibling.

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2. (Blocking — testing) The new module's two I/O functions are untested, and the "real-window / no-[1m]" tests don't exercise threshold resolution

reseed.py has three public functions. Only one is exercised:

• decide_session_action (pure comparator) — tested by test_reseed_decision.py.
• decide_resume_session (the actual gate: enable-flag short-circuit, state read, explicit_resume override, logging) — only ever mocked (test_main.py:186), never exercised.
• resolve_reseed_threshold (env-override parse, _positive_int guard, orchestrator fallback, None bias) — zero tests (grep-confirmed).

The decision tests bind to decide_session_action and inject the threshold themselves via _threshold_for(model) (confirmed: the locator resolves to egg_agent.reseed.decide_session_action, signature (*, session_id, occupancy, threshold)). Because the threshold is supplied externally, test_sub_1m_backend_uses_real_window_not_1m_alias does not actually verify the gate computes the real-window threshold — it passes the already-correct value in and re-asserts the comparator. A regression in resolve_reseed_threshold (e.g. resolving 80% off the [1m]-implied 1M window) would not break a single test in this PR. The AC "the threshold is computed against the real backend window (no [1m] mis-trigger)" is asserted only against slice-2's helper, not against this slice's resolution code — this is the "fixture bypasses the production code path" anti-pattern, and there's a name-vs-behavior gap between what the sub-1M test claims and what it checks.

Recommend adding:

• direct resolve_reseed_threshold tests: a parseable EGG_RESEED_THRESHOLD override wins; a non-int/non-positive override is rejected; with neither override nor importable orchestrator → None; and the real-window value for a sub-1M model is genuinely below the 400k floor (the regression that actually lives in resolution).
• a decide_resume_session test that runs unmocked: EGG_SESSION_RESUME off → resume_disabled reseed; a persisted low-occupancy record → resume; explicit_resume overrides the session id but occupancy still comes from the record.

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3. (Non-blocking) Invalid EGG_RESEED_THRESHOLD is swallowed with no operator signal

In resolve_reseed_threshold (reseed.py:126-134), a malformed or non-positive operator-supplied override hits except ValueError: override = None and falls through silently. In the sandbox — where orchestrator is off PYTHONPATH — that fall-through reaches None → the gate always reseeds, with no diagnostic for the operator who deliberately set the var. Behavior degrades to the safe path, so this isn't blocking, but a logger.debug/warning on parse failure (mirroring the trail session.py:read_session_state already emits for corrupt state) would save an operator from wondering why their threshold is ignored.

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4. (Context — confirm, not blocking) The slice is entirely dark in the sandbox today

Nothing exports EGG_RESEED_THRESHOLD (grep: only reseed.py references it), consensus_wrapper.py does not set EGG_SESSION_STATE_FILE or pass --session-state-file, and EGG_SESSION_RESUME defaults OFF. So in the real sandbox the gate currently always reseeds (= legacy cold-start), and because orchestrator isn't importable there, the resume half is unreachable until the env-export channel is wired. This matches the documented staged-rollout intent and is correct for an 8-of-10 slice — just confirm the threshold-export + event-pump wiring are tracked in a later slice so the resume path doesn't stay permanently inert in the sandbox.

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What's good

• Bias-to-reseed on every ambiguity (no warm session / unknown occupancy / no threshold / disabled) is the right safety posture and is cleanly expressed in decide_session_action's ordered branches.
• Boundary is correct and exclusive for resume (occupancy >= threshold reseeds); the comparator boundary cases are well covered.
• _positive_int correctly excludes bool (consistent with session.py), and the round-trip write-back in __main__.py correctly persists the fresh session after a reseed.

The blocking items are #1 (logger fallback regression, one-line fix) and #2 (resolution/integration functions untested). Neither touches the comparator logic, which is correct.

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