// ctxstream -- treat an oversized context like a video stream. // // The failure this exists to fix, measured on a 4B model over a 261,226-token // corpus on a 6GB card: the model swept every segment correctly and then, asked // which label was least common, replied "Status: beta, Status: delta, Status: // gamma, Status: alpha". It listed the candidates instead of selecting. Earlier // runs with more segments combined 65 partial counts wrongly. // // Both failures are the same mistake in the harness, not the model: a language // model was asked to plan a traversal and to aggregate arithmetic. Streaming // splits those out. // // manifest segments planned in code, up front, deterministic // buffer N segments in flight, latency hidden behind compute // decode model sees ONE segment, emits STRUCTURED records, never prose // reduce aggregation in code, over parsed records // // The model's only job is extraction from a window it comfortably fits. #pragma once #include #include #include namespace ctxstream { // ---------------------------------------------------------------- manifest struct Segment { int index = 0; std::size_t offset = 0; std::size_t length = 0; // Segments may overlap so a record straddling a boundary is seen whole by at // least one segment. The reducer dedupes on record identity. std::size_t overlap_prefix = 0; }; struct ManifestOptions { // Sized to what the serving model actually fits, not what it advertises. // Measured: gemma4:e4b holds 32,768 tokens in 3.3GB on a 6GB card. std::size_t segment_chars = 60000; std::size_t overlap_chars = 400; // Prefer splitting on a record boundary within this slack of the target, so // segments do not cut a row in half. std::size_t boundary_slack = 4000; std::string record_delim = "\n"; }; // Deterministic. No model call. Runs before anything is dispatched, which is // the point: the plan cannot be wrong in a way the model has to recover from. std::vector plan(const std::string& text, const ManifestOptions& opt); std::string segment_text(const std::string& text, const Segment& s); // ---------------------------------------------------------------- codegraph // // A codebase is not a character stream. Cutting it every N chars splits // functions, separates a call from its definition, and hands the model // fragments no human would review. When the input is a directory, the default // path is: scan -> graph -> segment along graph structure -> stream. enum class NodeKind { File, Function, Class, Struct, Other }; struct SymbolNode { int id = 0; NodeKind kind = NodeKind::Other; std::string name; int file = 0; // index into CodeGraph::files int line = 0; std::size_t offset = 0; std::size_t length = 0; }; enum class EdgeKind { Includes, References }; struct GraphEdge { int from = 0; // file index int to = 0; // file index EdgeKind kind = EdgeKind::Includes; }; struct FileNode { int id = 0; std::string path; // relative to the scanned root std::string language; std::size_t bytes = 0; int symbols = 0; }; struct CodeGraph { std::string root; std::vector files; std::vector symbols; std::vector edges; // Files skipped and why, so a sweep can never silently miss part of the // repo and still report a confident answer. std::vector> skipped; }; struct ScanOptions { std::size_t max_file_bytes = 2u * 1024 * 1024; std::vector exclude_dirs = { ".git", "node_modules", "build", "dist", "__pycache__", ".venv", "venv", "target", ".mypy_cache", ".pytest_cache", "vendor"}; bool follow_symlinks = false; }; CodeGraph scan_repo(const std::string& root, const ScanOptions& opt); // Segments that respect the graph: a file is never split mid-symbol, and files // are ordered so that a file follows the ones it includes wherever the include // graph is acyclic. Large files fall back to symbol-boundary splitting. std::vector plan_codebase(const CodeGraph& g, const ManifestOptions& opt, std::string* packed_text); std::string graph_summary(const CodeGraph& g); // ---------------------------------------------------------------- backend struct Completion { std::string text; long prompt_tokens = 0; // 0 when the server does not report it long output_tokens = 0; bool ok = false; std::string error; }; struct BackendOptions { std::string host = "127.0.0.1"; int port = 11434; std::string model = "gemma4:e4b"; std::string path = "/api/chat"; // native route: honours num_ctx AND reports // prompt_eval_count. The OpenAI-compatible // route silently ignores num_ctx. int num_ctx = 32768; int num_predict = 1024; int timeout_sec = 900; }; Completion complete(const BackendOptions& opt, const std::string& system_prompt, const std::string& user_prompt); // Guard against the failure that produced a confident answer from a fragment: // a server that quietly clips the prompt and never says so. Returns true when // the reported prompt token count is implausibly small for what was sent. bool looks_truncated(std::size_t prompt_chars, long prompt_tokens); // ---------------------------------------------------------------- pipeline struct SegmentResult { int index = 0; std::string raw; // exactly what the model returned bool ok = false; bool truncated = false; std::string error; long prompt_tokens = 0; long output_tokens = 0; double seconds = 0.0; }; struct PipelineOptions { // Segments in flight. Buffering, in the video sense: keeps the model busy // while the next prompt is being assembled. int concurrency = 2; int max_retries = 2; bool verbose = true; }; // Streams every segment through the model. Returns results in segment order. // Never aggregates, never interprets -- that is the reducer's job. std::vector stream(const std::string& text, const std::vector& segments, const std::string& extract_prompt, const BackendOptions& backend, const PipelineOptions& pipe); // ---------------------------------------------------------------- reduce // One parsed record from a segment. The extraction prompt asks for // "\t" lines, which is cheap for a small model to emit correctly // and unambiguous to parse -- unlike prose summaries. struct Record { std::string key; double value = 0.0; }; std::vector parse_records(const std::string& raw); struct Tally { std::vector> sorted; // ascending by value double total = 0.0; int parsed_records = 0; int unparsed_lines = 0; }; // Sums per key across every segment. This is the step the model kept getting // wrong; here it is a loop. Tally tally(const std::vector& results); // Answer construction is chosen explicitly, after the sweep -- not improvised // by the model mid-traversal. enum class Answer { Least, Most, Total, List }; std::string construct(const Tally& t, Answer how, const std::string& label = "Answer"); } // namespace ctxstream