[huang195]

What

From the same pprof session that found #1604: tool-prune was the #1 source of allocation churn on the proxy — 3.5GB of the 8.6GB a live laptop proxy allocated in ~20 minutes (41% of the total), all through sjson.DeleteBytes.

sjson.DeleteBytes returns a fresh copy of the whole body on every call, and the rewrite loop called it once per pruned tool (descending). k pruned tools = k+1 full body copies, each immediately discarded for the next. With Claude Code's ~100KB+ manifests, every pruned request pushed megabytes through the GC for one small final output.

Fix

Join the surviving tools' Raw bytes — already in hand from the parse — and replace the array with one sjson.SetRawBytes: one body-sized copy regardless of victim count.

• Each survivor's bytes are kept verbatim; only the separators between them normalize to ,. No cache prefix can have relied on those — pruning already rewrote the array. The cache_control marker moves onto the last survivor before the join, same rule as before, costing a copy of that one tool object.
• Output is byte-identical to the old path for compact bodies (what API clients send), which TestPrune_ByteExactAgainstJSONReconstruction pins. The all-victims branch (tools + tool_choice key drops) is unchanged.

Evidence

New regression test TestPrune_RewriteDoesNotCopyTheBodyPerVictim: pruning 9 of 10 tools from a 2.6MB body allocated 25MB before (9.6 body copies), under 8MB now — allocation no longer scales with victim count.

Full toolprune suite passes, including the pretty-body, cache-breakpoint, forced-tool_choice and history-cited tests.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of tool pruning so cache-related information is retained when tools are removed, where possible.
  • Reduced processing overhead when pruning tools from large requests, while preserving the remaining tool data.

Deferred

• The splice's else branch declares an err that shadows the enclosing scope's, and the loop shadows it again — cosmetic, no behavior change.
• The splice buffer is capped at the manifest's size, not the survivors' — when most of a large manifest is pruned the cap over-reserves; exact survivor-sum sizing would fit the output. Low value at current traffic.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

Partial tool pruning rebuilds the tools array in one replacement. It preserves surviving tool bytes and conditionally transfers an orphaned cache_control marker. If patching or replacement fails, the original body is forwarded. A regression test measures allocations during pruning.

Changes: Partial tool pruning

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Array rewrite and allocation validation core/plugins/toolprune/plugin.go, core/plugins/toolprune/plugin_test.go	Pruning rebuilds the tools array in one replacement. It transfers an orphaned cache_control marker only when the last surviving tool lacks one, and forwards the original body if patching or replacement fails. The tests include an allocation bound for pruning nine of ten tools and clarify the historical deletion test comment.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Refactor

Suggested reviewers: mrsabath

Merge Risk: Low · up to c6ffc

Pruning large requests can use extra memory. The impact is bounded and does not block merging.

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[coderabbitai]

Nitpick comments: 1

core/plugins/toolprune/plugin.go: 1

399-399: Trivial · Performance & Scalability · Quick win

Size joined for the surviving tools.

When most tools are pruned, len(body) reserves substantially more space than joined needs. The new allocation test’s 2.6 MB body retains only one roughly 256 KiB tool, yet this line reserves 2.6 MB before sjson.SetRawBytes allocates the rewritten body. Calculate capacity from the surviving raw values and separators to reduce allocations on the path this change optimizes. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @core/plugins/toolprune/plugin.go at line 399:
Size the `joined` buffer using the total lengths of the surviving `raw` values
plus their separators, rather than `len(body)`, so heavily pruned bodies do not
reserve space for removed tools before `sjson.SetRawBytes` rewrites the body.

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- Line 399: Size the `joined` buffer using the total lengths of the surviving
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[clawgenti]

Summary

Nice catch from the pprof session. Replacing the per-victim sjson.DeleteBytes loop with one SetRawBytes splice is correct and keeps the old path's semantics: survivor bytes stay verbatim, the cache_control carry-over follows the same last-survivor rule, the all-victims branch is untouched, and the post-conditions (valid JSON, expected tool count) still guard the output. I checked the new regression test against the old plugin.go: it fails there at 9.62x the body size and passes on this branch at 2.21x, so it actually guards the fix. I also compared old and new output on edge cases (a non-object array element, a survivor that already has cache_control, a pretty-printed body). Output is identical except that pretty-printed tools arrays are compacted, which is documented and harmless.

One suggestion is worth taking before merge, though it doesn't block. The splice buffer is sized to the whole body, and that can cancel most of the win on real traffic. Details are inline.

Author: huang195 (MEMBER — maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Go (core/plugins/toolprune), tests
Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none
Commits: 1 commit, all signed-off: yes
CI status: passing (full toolprune suite also re-run locally on go 1.26.10)

[clawgenti]

suggestion: The PR description defers this cap as "over-reserves when most of a large manifest is pruned, low value". The bigger cost is elsewhere: len(body) includes messages, and on long conversations the history is usually much larger than the tool manifest. In that case this scratch buffer is a second body-sized allocation, which cancels most of the saving when only a few tools are pruned.

I measured it with a 4 MB history, 10 x 10 KB tools, and 2 victims:

	TotalAlloc / body
old (DeleteBytes loop)	3.07x
this PR (cap = len(body))	3.04x
cap = len(tools.Raw)	2.07x

joined := make([]byte, 0, len(tools.Raw))

tools.Raw is always at least the size of the survivors plus brackets and commas. The only exception is the cache_control patch adding a few bytes, and append handles that. The full suite passes with this change. It's a one-line fix, so it seems worth doing here rather than deferring.

[clawgenti]

nit: Every byte of this body is in tools, so len(body) and len(tools.Raw) are almost equal and the test can't tell the two buffer sizings apart (see the comment on plugin.go:399). If you add a large messages pad (for example 2-4 MB of history) and keep the victim count low, the test models the common Claude Code case. With the tools.Raw cap you could then tighten the bound to about 2*len(body) plus slack.

[clawgenti]

nit: raw[i].Get("cache_control").Exists() gives the same answer from the element you already hold. gjson.GetBytes(body, "tools.%d.cache_control") re-walks the body up to index i, plus a Sprintf. It only runs once per request, so this is cosmetic, but it fits the spirit of the PR.