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Closes #1681

En simple

Cada vez que la pantalla se redibuja (un paso de scroll, una tecla), la sidebar le preguntaba a la sesion "cuanto llevas gastado y cuanto contexto usaste", y para contestar la sesion se releia entera.. y encima dos veces, una por el footer y otra por el header. Es como recontar toda la plata de la billetera cada vez que miras la hora. Ahora la respuesta se guarda y solo se recalcula cuando la sesion cambia de verdad.

Que cambia

buildShellBarModel() reusa el ultimo getContextUsage() y sessionCost() mientras no cambie nada. El cache es por session manager (WeakMap) y la clave es (leafId, entryCount, provider, model id, contextWindow):

  • un mensaje nuevo cambia entryCount (la sesion es append-only)
  • un cambio de rama cambia leafId
  • un cambio de modelo o de ventana de contexto cambia el resto

getEntryCount no esta en el tipo ReadonlySessionManager, asi que se chequea en runtime. Si falta getEntryCount o getLeafId se recalcula siempre, como hoy. Ambos existen desde Pi 0.99.0, o sea en todo el rango del peer.

La firma exportada y los campos del modelo no cambian.

Medicion

Microbenchmarks sobre ac671593 con Pi 1.0.0, Node 24.13.0, Ryzen 5 5600G, Windows 11. Frames ya asentados (cache hit), medianas:

Mensajes digest del footer, antes despues frame con sidebar, antes despues
100 20.2 µs 4.9 µs 0.648 ms 0.596 ms
1000 164.6 µs 6.3 µs 0.967 ms 0.680 ms
5000 1275.7 µs 13.6 µs 3.190 ms 1.258 ms

Despues del cambio, el frame con el digest real cuesta lo mismo que un control con digest constante en todos los casos.

Como se midio y limites
  • Bench A: costo por llamada de buildShellBarModel() con un SessionManager.inMemory real de Pi y el cuerpo real de AgentSession.getContextUsage. 100 de calentamiento, 300 muestras por caso.
  • Bench B: TuiAltScreen.doRender() real, terminal 140x24, 20 frames de calentamiento y 150 frames en 10 posiciones de scroll, con y sin sidebar.
  • No medi en una terminal real ni con una AgentSession interactiva.
  • Los frames donde la sesion acaba de cambiar (cache miss) siguen costando lo de antes.
  • Si un modelo virtual cambia de modelo ruteado sin que se agregue una entrada, el uso de contexto puede quedar viejo hasta la proxima entrada. Normalmente ese cambio llega con una respuesta nueva, que si invalida el cache.

Tests

  • Nuevo tests/shell-footer-model-cache.test.ts (5 tests). Antes del cambio fallaba el de sesion sin cambios: 6 llamadas a getContextUsage en vez de 1. Despues pasan los 5.
  • pnpm run typecheck: sin regresiones.
  • Los 10 archivos de test que importan extensions/gentle-shell.ts: los mismos 5 fallos con y sin el cambio en mi Windows (customize Vim, palette preview, Git discovery y 2 de yolo-mode-runtime).
  • pnpm test completo en Windows: 230 fallos de 4645, todos en archivos que no importan el modulo tocado o identicos sin el cambio. No corri la suite completa sin el cambio (tarda ~1 hora aca), asi que el CI es la referencia.

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  • Improvements
    • The shell footer reuses context usage, session cost, and session name results while the session and model remain unchanged, reducing repeated calculations.
    • These values refresh when session activity, the active session, or model settings change. If session details cannot be tracked for reuse, the footer continues to update them on each build.

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Fullscreen rail digests rebuild the footer model every frame, and each build walked the whole session through getContextUsage() and sessionCost(). Memoize both per session manager behind (leafId, entryCount, model provider/id, contextWindow); when the host session manager lacks getEntryCount or getLeafId (outside the supported Pi range, which has both since 0.99.0) every build recomputes as before.

Refs Gentleman-Programming#1681
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The shell bar now caches context usage and session cost when session revision and model details remain unchanged. Tests cover cache reuse, invalidation, and recomputation when revision methods are unavailable.

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Session-derived value caching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cache session-derived values
extensions/gentle-shell.ts
The shell bar obtains context usage and cost together. It reuses cached values when the session leaf, entry count, and model details remain unchanged, and recomputes them otherwise or when revision methods are unavailable.
Verify reuse and invalidation
tests/shell-footer-model-cache.test.ts, odd/tasks/fix-1681-shared-footer-digest.md
Tests check reuse, invalidation after session or model changes, and the fallback without getEntryCount. The task document records the plan, test results, and benchmark measurements.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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The footer reuses session-derived values and refreshes them when the session changes. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 34f0d

The cache remains local to session display data, with no identified expansion of permissions or public interfaces. Remaining uncertainty concerns whether the running dependency always supplies the session identity and revision behavior needed for fresh values.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated propagation is confined to shell rendering consumers. A freshness defect could affect multiple displayed surfaces, but the inspected paths do not demonstrate propagation into authorization, persistence or another service.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — Manager-object ownership separates cache entries across distinct managers, and feature detection prevents unsupported managers from using revision-based reuse. Isolation across session replacement on the same manager remains dependent on runtime lifecycle behavior not established here.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Ordinary synchronous execution cannot expose a partially published cache entry. Missing revision support falls back to the previous computation path rather than weakening an identity or permission control.
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🟡 Minor · Cache the session name with the session revision. · gentle-shell.ts:305

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Cache the session name with the session revision.

For an unnamed session, Pi 1.0.0 getSessionName() scans fileEntries in reverse until it finds a session_info entry. With no such entry, buildShellBarModel() performs a full-history scan on every fullscreen digest evaluation, including settled frames and render updates from typing or idle state changes.

Cache the name with the existing revision key. appendSessionInfo() adds an entry, so the entry count changes and explicit rename updates remain visible.

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 interface SessionDerived {
 	key: string;
 	usage: ReturnType<ExtensionContext["getContextUsage"]>;
 	cost: number;
+	sessionName: string | undefined;
 }
@@
 	const session = ctx.sessionManager as SessionRevision;
 	if (typeof session.getEntryCount !== "function" || typeof session.getLeafId !== "function") {
-		return { usage: ctx.getContextUsage(), cost: sessionCost(ctx) };
+		return { usage: ctx.getContextUsage(), cost: sessionCost(ctx), sessionName: ctx.sessionManager.getSessionName() };
 	}
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-	const fresh = { key, usage: ctx.getContextUsage(), cost: sessionCost(ctx) };
+	const fresh = { key, usage: ctx.getContextUsage(), cost: sessionCost(ctx), sessionName: ctx.sessionManager.getSessionName() };
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-	const { usage, cost } = sessionDerived(ctx);
+	const { usage, cost, sessionName } = sessionDerived(ctx);
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-		sessionName: ctx.sessionManager.getSessionName(),
+		sessionName,
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Review comment at @extensions/gentle-shell.ts at line 305:
Cache the session name in the existing SessionDerived revision cache so
buildShellBarModel does not rescan history on every digest for unnamed sessions.
Update both the fallback and cached return paths in sessionDerived to include
the name, then have buildShellBarModel reuse the cached value; retain
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- Line 305: Cache the session name in the existing SessionDerived revision cache
so buildShellBarModel does not rescan history on every digest for unnamed
sessions. Update both the fallback and cached return paths in sessionDerived to
include the name, then have buildShellBarModel reuse the cached value; retain
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getSessionName() scans every entry when the session has no session_info entry, so an unnamed session still paid a full-history walk per fullscreen digest. A rename appends a session_info entry, so the existing (leafId, entryCount, model) key already invalidates it.
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Addressed in 34f0d61: the session name now lives in the SessionDerived cache on both paths. A rename goes through appendSessionInfo → _appendEntry, which changes leafId and the entry count, so the existing key invalidates it. Covered by a rename refreshes the cached session name.

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