fix(claude): report the prompt this proxy counted on message_start - #5057
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The Anthropic surface published `usage.input_tokens: 0` on `message_start` whenever the upstream had not reported usage before the first content frame. Third-party clients read the prompt size there — Paseo's context meter takes input from that frame and output from `message_delta` — so a turn whose own `/context` reported ~97k rendered as a nearly-empty ring. #4891 fixed the destinations that report usage up front. The internal bridge attaches `usage: null` to its lifecycle frames, so those paths had nothing to publish and kept sending zero. `responsesSseToAnthropicSse` now accepts an input-token floor: the count this proxy made of the prompt it forwarded, published only when no confirmed upstream usage arrived first. `claude-messages.ts` supplies it from `estimateClaudeRequestTokens`, the same estimate the usage log already trusts as a floor, computed at most once per request and shared with the log path. This narrows a recorded decision rather than ignoring it. The pinned case said zero is the honest placeholder and an estimate must not replace it. Zero is not honest about a prompt that exists — it asserts an empty one — and the Anthropic schema makes the field required, so the choice is between a false measurement and a real one of the request side. The second half of that decision stands: the first content frame is still never delayed to await usage, and `message_delta` remains authoritative. Closes #4857.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Claude streaming path now accepts a prompt-token floor for ChangesClaude input usage reporting
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ClaudeMessages as Claude Messages handler
participant Translator as responsesSseToAnthropicSse
participant Upstream as Responses stream
participant Client as Claude client
ClaudeMessages->>ClaudeMessages: Compute and memoize request token floor
ClaudeMessages->>Translator: Pass inputTokenFloor
Translator->>Upstream: Read upstream frames
Upstream-->>Translator: Confirmed usage or no early usage
Translator->>Client: Emit message_start usage
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Clients using the JSON streaming fallback still see zero prompt usage in the first frame even when it is known, so their context meters remain inaccurate. Fix this before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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| // Only a floor, and only for the first frame: an upstream that reports usage early wins | ||
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Passing this estimate changes the no-early-usage behavior, but the owned contract in structure/runtime.md still states that message_start emits zero “without estimating.” That now directly contradicts the runtime and could cause future work to restore the obsolete behavior; update the contract in this commit to document the caller-counted floor, its precedence behind confirmed upstream usage, and the unchanged terminal usage.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L33-L38
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🟠 Major · Populate message_start from known JSON usage. · claude-messages.ts:1093
src/server/claude-messages.ts:1093
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPopulate
message_startfrom known JSON usage.For the JSON-upstream streaming fallback,
responsesJsonToAnthropicMessagesetsmessage.usagefrombody.usageatsrc/claude/outbound.ts:961. Line 1093 replaces that known input and cache usage with zeros, while line 1099 sends the known usage inmessage_delta. Clients that readmessage_starttherefore under-report input usage.Preserve the known usage fields and set only
output_tokensto zero. Add a regression test for this fallback path.Proposed fix
+ const knownUsage = isRec(message.usage) ? message.usage : {}; + const startUsage = { + ...knownUsage, + input_tokens: typeof knownUsage.input_tokens === "number" ? knownUsage.input_tokens : 0, + output_tokens: 0, + }; - emit("message_start", { type: "message_start", message: { ...message, content: [], stop_reason: null, usage: { input_tokens: 0, output_tokens: 0 } } }); + emit("message_start", { type: "message_start", message: { ...message, content: [], stop_reason: null, usage: startUsage } });🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/server/claude-messages.ts`:
- Line 1093: Update the message_start construction in the JSON-upstream fallback
to preserve known usage fields from message.usage, including input and cache
usage, while forcing only output_tokens to zero and defaulting missing
input_tokens to zero. Add a regression test covering this fallback and verifying
the initial event reports the preserved usage.
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Summary
The Anthropic surface published
usage.input_tokens: 0onmessage_startwhenever the upstream had not reported usage before the first content frame. Third-party clients read the turn's prompt size from that frame — Paseo's context meter takes input frommessage_startand output frommessage_delta— so a turn whose own/contextreported ~97k rendered as a nearly-empty ring.#4891 fixed the destinations that report usage up front. It did not cover the path the report came from: the internal bridge attaches
usage: nullto its lifecycle frames, so there was nothing to publish and zero kept going out.responsesSseToAnthropicSsenow accepts an input-token floor — this proxy's count of the prompt it forwarded — published only when no confirmed upstream usage arrived first.claude-messages.tssupplies it fromestimateClaudeRequestTokens, the same estimate the usage log already trusts as a floor, computed at most once per request and shared with the log path rather than recomputed.This narrows a decision this repository had recorded, so I want to be explicit about it. The pinned case read: zero is the documented honest placeholder when no input measurement has arrived; do not replace it with an estimate or delay the first content frame to await terminal usage.
The second half stands and is untouched: nothing here delays the first content frame, and
message_deltaremains the authoritative count. The first half does not survive contact with the symptom. Zero is not honest about a prompt that exists — it asserts an empty one — and because the Anthropic schema makesusagerequired onmessage_start, "absent" is not on the menu. The real choice is between a false measurement and a true measurement of the request side, and a count of the prompt we actually sent is the better of those two. The test comment was rewritten to say that rather than deleted.Ordering is explicit: confirmed early upstream usage always outranks the floor. The floor is never a claim about the upstream tokenizer.
Closes #4857.
Verification
Four cases in
tests/claude-integration/claude-outbound.test.ts.message_startwhen the upstream reports none early, and the terminalmessage_deltais asserted unchanged in the same case — the floor must not leak into the authoritative frame.NaNall fall back to the previous zeros, and a fractional value truncates, so a caller that cannot count cannot turn that into a number on the wire.Hosted CI on this branch is the check; no local suite was run.
Checklist
No credential, auth, workflow, or release surface is touched. The added value is a token count derived from the request body the client already sent, never any part of its content, and it travels only on a frame that already carries token counts.
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