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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to FoldBack are documented here. The format follows
+[Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/) and the project adheres to
+[Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
+
+## [0.1.0] — 2026-06-20
+
+First production-ready release.
+
+### Added
+- `compress(messages, model=...)` — live-zone-only, content-preserving
+  compression returning a `CompressResult` (`messages`, `tokens_saved`,
+  `ratio`, `transforms`).
+- `CompressConfig` — `model`, `min_savings` token-savings gate, per-transform
+  `enabled` toggles.
+- Reversible JSON columnar compactor with a proven inverse (`restore_columnar`)
+  and Hypothesis property tests guaranteeing exact round-trips.
+- Normalizing log compactor (ANSI strip + consecutive-line run-length dedup)
+  and text compactor (trailing whitespace, blank-line runs).
+- Optional exact token counting via `tiktoken` (`foldback[exact]`); zero-dep
+  char/4 heuristic by default.
+- Drop-in SDK wrappers `with_anthropic()` / `with_openai()`.
+- Full quality gate: ruff, mypy `--strict`, pytest with coverage, Python
+  3.10–3.13, packaged wheel + sdist (`twine check` clean).
+
+### Correctness
+- Token-based savings gate: a transform is applied only when it reduces
+  tokens (not merely bytes).
+- Cache hot zone (everything before the last `cache_control` breakpoint) is
+  forwarded as the identical objects received — never re-serialized.
+
+### Fixed (vs. the pre-release prototype)
+- JSON compaction was not reversible: string `"1"` and integer `1` rendered
+  identically, and the absent-key sentinel collided with real values. The
+  columnar format now keeps every cell as a typed JSON token and only
+  compacts uniform-schema arrays, so the round-trip is exact.

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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: foldback-ai
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Lossless context compression for LLM agents. Fold it down, fold it back. No data dropped, prompt cache preserved.
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/SUDARSHANCHAUDHARI/FoldBack
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/SUDARSHANCHAUDHARI/FoldBack
+Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/SUDARSHANCHAUDHARI/FoldBack/issues
+Author: SudarshanTechLabs
+License: Apache-2.0
+License-File: LICENSE
+License-File: NOTICE
+Keywords: agents,compression,context,llm,prompt-cache,tokens
+Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
+Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
+Classifier: Typing :: Typed
+Requires-Python: >=3.10
+Provides-Extra: anthropic
+Requires-Dist: anthropic>=0.40; extra == 'anthropic'
+Provides-Extra: dev
+Requires-Dist: hypothesis>=6.100; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: mypy>=1.11; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: pytest-cov>=5.0; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: pytest>=8.0; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: ruff>=0.6; extra == 'dev'
+Provides-Extra: exact
+Requires-Dist: tiktoken>=0.7; extra == 'exact'
+Provides-Extra: openai
+Requires-Dist: openai>=1.40; extra == 'openai'
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+
+# FoldBack
+
+**Context compression for LLM agents.** Fold it down, fold it back.
+
+FoldBack shrinks what your agent sends to the model — JSON tool outputs, logs,
+search results — using content-preserving transforms. No row is dropped, no
+value is discarded, and the provider prompt cache keeps hitting.
+
+```python
+from foldback import compress
+
+result = compress(messages, model="gpt-4o")
+result.messages       # same format, fewer tokens — send these to the model
+result.tokens_saved   # tokens saved
+result.ratio          # 0.45 == 55% saved; 1.0 == nothing changed
+result.transforms     # e.g. ["json:columnar"]
+```
+
+## Why it exists
+
+Most "context compression" tools made two expensive mistakes:
+
+1. **They compressed conversation history**, dropping old messages — which
+   busts the provider prompt cache on every call. On Anthropic that's a 90%
+   discount thrown away.
+2. **They dropped data and hoped the model would ask for it back** via a
+   retrieval tool. If it doesn't realize data is missing, you get a
+   confidently wrong answer with no error.
+
+FoldBack refuses both:
+
+- **Passthrough is sacred.** Everything before the last `cache_control`
+  breakpoint is forwarded as the *same objects* — never copied, never
+  re-serialized — so caches keep hitting.
+- **Only the live zone is touched** (the latest user message / tool result).
+- **Token-gated.** A transform is applied only when it actually reduces
+  tokens. Otherwise the original is returned unchanged.
+
+## Guarantees, stated honestly
+
+Two transform categories with different promises:
+
+| Content | Transform | Guarantee |
+|---------|-----------|-----------|
+| JSON array of uniform objects | columnar (keys written once, rows as JSON arrays) | **Reversible** — exact round-trip, proven by property tests. `restore_columnar()` reconstructs the original. |
+| Logs | strip ANSI, run-length-collapse consecutive identical lines to `(xN)` | **Normalizing** — no textual content lost; removes non-semantic bytes. Not byte-reversible. |
+| Plain text | trim trailing whitespace, collapse blank-line runs | **Normalizing** — words and punctuation untouched. |
+
+The columnar transform only fires on **uniform-schema** arrays, so each row
+maps back to its keys unambiguously and `"1"` (string) never collides with `1`
+(number). Mixed-schema arrays are left untouched rather than compacted lossily.
+
+```python
+from foldback import compress, restore_columnar
+# round-trip proof
+compressed = compress(messages).messages
+# any columnar block is exactly restorable:
+#   json.loads(restore_columnar(block)) == original_rows
+```
+
+## Measured savings
+
+Reproduce with `python benchmarks/run.py --model gpt-4o` (exact gpt-4o tokens):
+
+| Workload | Before | After | Saved |
+|----------|-------:|------:|------:|
+| API response (100 rows) | 2,803 | 1,421 | **49%** |
+| Build log (200 lines) | 2,729 | 499 | **82%** |
+| Code search (50 hits) | 1,892 | 1,159 | **39%** |
+
+No marketing numbers — these come straight from the benchmark script.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install foldback                 # zero dependencies
+pip install "foldback[exact]"        # + tiktoken for exact token counts
+pip install "foldback[anthropic]"    # + Anthropic SDK for the wrapper
+pip install "foldback[openai]"       # + OpenAI SDK for the wrapper
+```
+
+## Use it
+
+**Inline:**
+```python
+from foldback import compress, CompressConfig
+
+result = compress(messages, model="claude-sonnet-4-5")
+# or with options:
+cfg = CompressConfig(model="gpt-4o", min_savings=0.2)  # require >=20% win
+result = compress(messages, config=cfg)
+```
+
+**Drop-in SDK wrappers** (system prompt / tool defs stay frozen → cache-safe):
+```python
+from anthropic import Anthropic
+from foldback.integrations import with_anthropic
+
+client = with_anthropic(Anthropic())
+client.messages.create(model="claude-sonnet-4-5", messages=[...])  # auto-compressed
+
+from openai import OpenAI
+from foldback.integrations import with_openai
+
+client = with_openai(OpenAI())
+client.chat.completions.create(model="gpt-4o", messages=[...])     # auto-compressed
+```
+
+## Develop
+
+```bash
+pip install -e ".[dev,exact]"
+pytest                       # tests + coverage
+ruff check foldback tests    # lint
+mypy foldback                # strict type-check
+python benchmarks/run.py     # savings table
+python examples/demo.py
+```
+
+## Deliberately NOT built
+
+A network proxy, SSE streaming parser, Bedrock/Vertex signing, message
+scoring / relevance, a HuggingFace compression model, lossy row-dropping with
+retrieval. FoldBack is a library you call before your own SDK call — so it can
+never corrupt the wire.
+
+## Roadmap
+
+- [ ] Diff / patch compaction
+- [ ] CSV / Markdown-table input detection
+- [ ] Rust core for the columnar path (only if profiling demands it)
+
+Apache 2.0.