pi-condense 2.11.0 → 2.11.1

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ Published to npm as [`pi-condense`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/pi-condense) (
 Pushing a `vX.Y.Z` tag triggers `.github/workflows/release.yml`, which runs the tests and
 publishes via OIDC trusted publishing. See `.agents/skills/release/SKILL.md`.
 
+## [2.11.1] - 2026-09-29
+
+### Fixed
+
+- The frontier-gap metric prices image blocks at a flat estimate instead of counting base64 as text, so screenshot reads no longer trigger a premature frontier-gap flush that prunes images before the model sees them.
+
 ## [2.11.0] - 2026-09-24
 
 ### Added

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "pi-condense",
-  "version": "2.11.0",
+  "version": "2.11.1",
   "description": "Pi coding-agent extension that summarizes completed tool-call batches, replaces raw outputs with short stubs, compresses closed tool-call chains, and recovers any original on demand via context_tree_query.",
   "author": "Jacek Juraszek",
   "license": "MIT",

package/src/context-metrics.test.ts

@@ -260,6 +260,22 @@ describe("computeContextMetrics", () => {
     expect(result.frontierGapTokens).toBe(expected);
   });
 
+  test("frontierGapTokens: image blocks use a flat estimate instead of base64 length", () => {
+    const msgs = [userMsg(100), assistantWithTools(200, ["tc1", "tc2", "tc3"])];
+    for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
+      const result = toolResult(300 + i, `tc${i + 1}`, "read", "screenshot");
+      result.content.push({ type: "image", data: "A".repeat(137000), mimeType: "image/png" });
+      msgs.push(result);
+    }
+    const expected = msgs.slice(2).reduce((sum, msg) => {
+      const stub = { ...msg, content: msg.content.map((block: any) => block.type === "image" ? { type: "image" } : block) };
+      return sum + Math.round((JSON.stringify(stub).length + 1600 * 4) / 4);
+    }, 0);
+    const result = computeContextMetrics(msgs, null, noSummarized, noProtected);
+    expect(result.frontierGapTokens).toBe(expected);
+    expect(result.frontierGapTokens).toBeLessThan(20000);
+  });
+
   test("frontierGapTokens: boundary mid-turn split excludes at-or-before calls, includes later calls in same turn", () => {
     const msgs = [userMsg(100), assistantWithTools(200, ["tc1", "tc2"]), toolResult(300, "tc1"), toolResult(310, "tc2")];
     const frontier = fullFrontier({ lastAttemptedToolCallId: "tc1", lastAttemptedTurnIndex: 0 });

package/src/context-metrics.ts

@@ -2,8 +2,17 @@ import { detectChains, isChainAnchorCustom } from "./chain-detector.js";
 import { occKey, resultTimestampOf } from "./occurrence-key.js";
 import type { ContextMetricsSnapshot, PruneFrontier } from "./types.js";
 
+const IMAGE_TOKEN_ESTIMATE = 1600;
+
 function charsOf(msg: any): number {
-  return JSON.stringify(msg).length;
+  if (!Array.isArray(msg.content)) return JSON.stringify(msg).length;
+  let imageCount = 0;
+  const content = msg.content.map((block: any) => {
+    if (block?.type !== "image") return block;
+    imageCount++;
+    return { type: "image" };
+  });
+  return JSON.stringify({ ...msg, content }).length + imageCount * IMAGE_TOKEN_ESTIMATE * 4;
 }
 
 function tokensOf(msg: any): number {