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perf(usage): skip JSON parsing for oversized transcript lines without usage - #28598
Usage scans run every oversized transcript line (tool output, large payloads) through the streaming JSON tokenizer, even when the line carries no usage record. On large histories that costs minutes of tokenization for data the scan discards. Split out of #25711, which dropped this parser change to stay focused on cached-first reads.
Solution
For oversized lines in plain .jsonl files, scan chunks for the format's usage markers (with a boundary overlap so a marker split across chunks is still found) instead of tokenizing. Only lines that carry a marker are replayed from the file by byte offset into the streaming JSON reader, so retained fields and resume offsets match main. Compressed .jsonl.zst transcripts cannot be replayed by byte offset, so they keep the existing always-stream path.
Tests: a regression that parseProjected is never called for an oversized line without markers while the following usage record is still counted, and one that oversized usage lines in a compressed transcript still project. vp run check:changed passes format, lint, both knip passes and tests; server typecheck is clean. No measured speedup on a large real history yet.
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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Oversized uncompressed transcript lines now skip JSON parsing unless they contain usage markers, while compressed-file handling remains unchanged. The optimization is confined to usage-summary ingestion and does not modify source transcripts or product defaults.
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The transcript reader now distinguishes ordinary and oversized lines. It scans oversized uncompressed lines for usage markers and rereads matching lines for projection. Oversized compressed lines continue through streaming projection. Tests cover marker detection across read boundaries and compressed transcript totals.
The reader limits direct parsing to lines within the threshold. It tracks markers across read boundaries and rereads oversized uncompressed lines for projection only when a marker is found. Oversized compressed lines use streaming projection. Tests cover skipped projection, boundary-spanning markers, and compressed transcript totals.
Oversized transcript lines are now skipped unless they contain a literal usage marker. A record that writes its usage key with JSON escapes would be dropped from the token totals. This is unlikely with normal producers, so the risk is low.
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Add coverage for an oversized usage line with a split marker.
The existing boundary test splits turn_context across a read chunk, but the marker is in the small modelLine; the preceding padded filler line is separate. It does not exercise markerTail while processing an oversized marker-bearing line.
If markerTail regresses, carriesUsage can remain false and the reader can skip replaying that usage line. Extend the existing streaming test with an oversized Codex usage line whose marker crosses the 256 KiB boundary, then assert that its usage record is counted. Do not add a wrapper test.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/usage/usageTranscriptStreaming.test.ts around
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Extend the existing streaming boundary test to include an oversized Codex usage
line whose usage marker crosses the 256 KiB read boundary, and assert that its
usage record is counted. Use the existing streaming test flow rather than adding
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/usage/usageTranscriptStreaming.test.ts:
- Around line 113-139: Extend the existing streaming boundary test to include an
oversized Codex usage line whose usage marker crosses the 256 KiB read boundary,
and assert that its usage record is counted. Use the existing streaming test
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Re the CodeRabbit nitpick on usageTranscriptStreaming.test.ts: valid, nothing exercised markerTail on an oversized marker-bearing line. Added in f28219d: an oversized Codex usage line whose "token_count" marker straddles the 256 KiB read boundary, asserting the record is counted and replayed once. Dropping markerTail from the boundary check makes it fail.
2026-11-15 takeover update at 7e94e47b14506bfb634e87ef811115c964b2fb1a:
merged current main with a merge commit. preserved the oversized-line gate and main's pending-buffer copy. github reports no conflicts.
fixed replay streams retaining filehandle close listeners. a direct node runtime reproduction emitted a warning with 12 listeners before; the raw-fd replay path read all 12 ranges correctly with zero listeners and kept the descriptor open afterward.
blacksmith vp run check:changed passed format, lint, knip, graphql, affected typechecks, and 44 tests. the focused reader/streaming suites also passed all 42 tests after the fix.
two independent read-only reviews approved this exact head. the bot's split-marker finding was already addressed in the contributor's existing test.
ci for the pushed head is running. full client/provider verification was not repeated this run; the earlier evidence below is for the original head.
Verified in a real dev environment
verified unchanged head e5b0a18854339417f09a12d6986b44ece3419cf8 in the linux web app with repository playwright, google chrome, and real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the local proxy.
reproduced on github/main (8760d063e9) in a separate worktree first. a real codex image-viewing turn produced a 16,789,137-byte transcript line without usage markers. the running usage-page scan created one streaming json reader and called its write function 66 times.
stopped main before starting this head. scanning the identical app-generated transcript through usage on the pr created zero streaming json readers. all nine usage records, parser state, resume offset, and zero malformed records matched main. both displayed 215k processed tokens (214,884 exactly).
compressed the same real transcript to zstd and refreshed through the app. compressed streaming still ran and preserved all nine records and parser state.
created a project and two real provider turns on the pr. usage increased from 11 to 13 records across two sessions after the second turn. another refresh preserved identical totals: 292,972 processed tokens and zero malformed records. cost/tokens switching also worked.
ran the existing transcript-reader, transcript-streaming, and usage-service suites through blacksmith: 81 tests passed across three files. existing head ci reports 29 successful checks. no source changes were needed.
runtime counts came from node inspector coverage on the running server, with no application-source instrumentation. the completed real transcript was copied into an isolated codex home so both revisions scanned identical bytes. command transcript
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native desktop/mobile clients, other providers, and remote/tunnel connections were not exercised. oversized usage-bearing lines and split markers passed the focused existing tests but were not generated by a real provider turn. production-scale wall-clock speedup was not measured. codex account limits returned json-rpc -32600 through this proxy; transcript usage and cost scanning worked.
@maria-rcks thanks for the real-environment verification on e5b0a18. CI is green on this head, CodeRabbit has had no actionable findings since 10:30Z, and Macroscope approved. Could you review when you have a moment?
Related: #25711 is the sibling cached-first change this was split out of, and #17255 is the earlier change that skips decoding lines without usage on the first scan (this one extends that to oversized lines, avoiding JSON tokenization).
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/usage/usageTranscriptReader.ts:
- Line 445: Update the oversized-record byte gate that sets carriesUsage so
escaped JSON key characters that decode to “usage” trigger conservative replay
rather than skipping the record; preserve the existing resumeOffset behavior for
records without usage markers. Extend the oversized-record test to cover the
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Preserve escaped usage markers in oversized records.
An oversized Claude record can encode its key as "us\u0061ge" without containing the literal "usage". The streaming tokenizer decodes this key to usage, so the previous oversized path retained it. The declared stream-json 3.7.0 tokenizer explicitly decodes these escapes. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
The new byte gate leaves carriesUsage false. This skips the record and advances resumeOffset past it, silently losing usage. Use a conservative replay fallback for escaped markers. Extend the oversized-record test with this equivalent JSON representation.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/usage/usageTranscriptReader.ts at line 445:
Update the oversized-record byte gate that sets carriesUsage so escaped JSON key characters that decode to “usage” trigger conservative replay rather than skipping the record; preserve the existing resumeOffset behavior for records without usage markers. Extend the oversized-record test to cover the equivalent escaped-key representation.
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Problem
Usage scans run every oversized transcript line (tool output, large payloads) through the streaming JSON tokenizer, even when the line carries no usage record. On large histories that costs minutes of tokenization for data the scan discards. Split out of #25711, which dropped this parser change to stay focused on cached-first reads.
Solution
For oversized lines in plain
.jsonlfiles, scan chunks for the format's usage markers (with a boundary overlap so a marker split across chunks is still found) instead of tokenizing. Only lines that carry a marker are replayed from the file by byte offset into the streaming JSON reader, so retained fields and resume offsets match main. Compressed.jsonl.zsttranscripts cannot be replayed by byte offset, so they keep the existing always-stream path.Tests: a regression that
parseProjectedis never called for an oversized line without markers while the following usage record is still counted, and one that oversized usage lines in a compressed transcript still project.vp run check:changedpasses format, lint, both knip passes and tests; server typecheck is clean. No measured speedup on a large real history yet.Built with Claude Sonnet 5.5 in the Claude Code harness on T3 Code.
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