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- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/LICENSE +21 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/PKG-INFO +267 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/README.md +252 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/pyproject.toml +30 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/setup.cfg +4 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_conformance_kit.egg-info/PKG-INFO +267 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_conformance_kit.egg-info/SOURCES.txt +26 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_conformance_kit.egg-info/dependency_links.txt +1 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_conformance_kit.egg-info/entry_points.txt +2 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_conformance_kit.egg-info/requires.txt +3 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_conformance_kit.egg-info/top_level.txt +1 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_kit/__init__.py +54 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_kit/canaries.py +286 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_kit/cli.py +147 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_kit/compacted.py +20 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_kit/compactors.py +274 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_kit/corpus.py +177 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_kit/probes.py +101 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_kit/report.py +135 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_kit/runner.py +73 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_kit/session.py +80 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_kit/simulated_agent.py +88 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/src/compaction_kit/spike.py +81 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/tests/test_cli.py +51 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/tests/test_corpus.py +55 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/tests/test_metric_hardening.py +73 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/tests/test_mitigations.py +61 -0
- compaction_conformance_kit-0.1.0/tests/test_spike.py +79 -0
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Name: compaction-conformance-kit
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Version: 0.1.0
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Summary: Measure what an agent's context compaction actually preserves: typed canaries, compaction rounds, per-type survival curves.
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Author: Yuriy H
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License: MIT
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Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/jurayh/compaction-conformance-kit
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Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/jurayh/compaction-conformance-kit
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# Compaction Conformance Kit
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**Measure what your agent's context compaction actually preserves.**
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Compaction is where long-running agents quietly forget. A widely cited
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measurement found a production `/compact` preserved only **53% of safety
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rules after one round and 10% after five**. The rules did not fail loudly.
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They simply were not in the context anymore, and the agent behaved as if
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Fix-oriented compaction work exists. A framework-agnostic way to
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*measure* the loss did not. This kit is that measurement.
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## What happens when an agent forgets
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session. Then ask: does the agent still hold them?
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With naive truncation, the answer is no, and the failure is not academic.
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the rules that would have stopped it were gone. An agent working from a
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structure-preserving compaction refused both. Same questions, same agent
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This kit turns that difference into a number, per type, per round.
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## Quickstart
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No API key. No model calls. $0.
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```bash
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pip install compaction-conformance-kit
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compaction-kit demo
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compaction-kit report --compactor update-aware-checklist
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| Compactor | Safety | Constraint | Fact | Goal | Preference | Verdict |
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| lossy-truncation (keep last 30%) | 25% → 0% | 25% → 0% | 25% → 0% | 50% → 0% | 25% → 0% | FLAG on 4 types |
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Homepage = "https://github.com/jurayh/compaction-conformance-kit"
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Repository = "https://github.com/jurayh/compaction-conformance-kit"
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+
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22
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+
[project.optional-dependencies]
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dev = ["pytest>=8"]
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24
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+
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25
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[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
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where = ["src"]
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27
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+
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[tool.pytest.ini_options]
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testpaths = ["tests"]
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30
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pythonpath = ["src"]
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