Fix: Read prompt tokens from message_delta usage on the beta Messages path - #811
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Claude Code posts to /v1/messages?beta=true (anthropic-beta: claude-code-20250219). On that path the Messages API sends message_start carrying only input_tokens and defers cache_creation_input_tokens and cache_read_input_tokens to message_delta. foldAnthropicFrame took the prompt size only from message_start, so a cached agent request was recorded orders of magnitude too low. Measured live against authbridge-proxy --demo through an Anthropic-compatible gateway, one Claude Code turn recorded promptTokens=9 for a 33,772-token prompt and promptTokens=4 for a 34,018-token prompt. Refresh the prompt side in the message_delta case, taking the larger value seen. The plain (non-beta) path sends no input counts on message_delta, where promptTotal() is 0, so an unconditional assignment would clobber the correct message_start total; the existing StreamFoldsEvents test covers that shape and still expects 25. The new test uses the usage blocks captured verbatim off the wire from a real Claude Code turn. Against the old code it fails with PromptTokens = 9, reproducing the live number exactly. Verified end to end with the same fixture, gateway and config and only the binary swapped: recorded promptTokens went 9 -> 33,772 and 4 -> 34,018, matching the captured bytes. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
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In `@authbridge/authlib/plugins/inferenceparser/anthropic.go`:
- Around line 233-242: Update the usage handling around ev.Usage.promptTotal and
CompletionTokens so TotalTokens is recalculated after every usage block,
including when OutputTokens is zero, using the retained completion count.
Preserve cumulative prompt tracking and latest nonzero output handling, and add
a regression case covering cached prompt usage with zero output tokens.
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| if p := ev.Usage.promptTotal(); p > state.usage.PromptTokens { | ||
| state.usage.PromptTokens = p | ||
| } | ||
| if ev.Usage.OutputTokens > 0 { | ||
| // usage.output_tokens in message_delta is cumulative — take the | ||
| // latest. TotalTokens must be non-zero for the shared finalize | ||
| // block to copy the counts onto the extension. | ||
| state.usage.CompletionTokens = ev.Usage.OutputTokens | ||
| state.usage.TotalTokens = state.usage.PromptTokens + ev.Usage.OutputTokens | ||
| } |
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Record prompt usage when the stream has zero output tokens.
If message_delta reports cached prompt usage and output_tokens is zero, this code updates PromptTokens but leaves TotalTokens at zero. The finalizer then skips all usage fields. Set TotalTokens after processing every usage block, using the retained completion count. Add a zero-output regression case.
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if ev.Usage.OutputTokens > 0 {
// usage.output_tokens in message_delta is cumulative — take the
// latest. TotalTokens must be non-zero for the shared finalize
// block to copy the counts onto the extension.
state.usage.CompletionTokens = ev.Usage.OutputTokens
- state.usage.TotalTokens = state.usage.PromptTokens + ev.Usage.OutputTokens
}
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| if p := ev.Usage.promptTotal(); p > state.usage.PromptTokens { | |
| state.usage.PromptTokens = p | |
| } | |
| if ev.Usage.OutputTokens > 0 { | |
| // usage.output_tokens in message_delta is cumulative — take the | |
| // latest. TotalTokens must be non-zero for the shared finalize | |
| // block to copy the counts onto the extension. | |
| state.usage.CompletionTokens = ev.Usage.OutputTokens | |
| state.usage.TotalTokens = state.usage.PromptTokens + ev.Usage.OutputTokens | |
| } | |
| if p := ev.Usage.promptTotal(); p > state.usage.PromptTokens { | |
| state.usage.PromptTokens = p | |
| } | |
| if ev.Usage.OutputTokens > 0 { | |
| // usage.output_tokens in message_delta is cumulative — take the | |
| // latest. TotalTokens must be non-zero for the shared finalize | |
| // block to copy the counts onto the extension. | |
| state.usage.CompletionTokens = ev.Usage.OutputTokens | |
| } | |
| state.usage.TotalTokens = state.usage.PromptTokens + state.usage.CompletionTokens |
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In `@authbridge/authlib/plugins/inferenceparser/anthropic.go` around lines 233 -
242, Update the usage handling around ev.Usage.promptTotal and CompletionTokens
so TotalTokens is recalculated after every usage block, including when
OutputTokens is zero, using the retained completion count. Preserve cumulative
prompt tracking and latest nonzero output handling, and add a regression case
covering cached prompt usage with zero output tokens.
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The prompt-token fix in the previous commit only takes effect on listeners
that strip the query from Context.Path. extproc does not, so on the
envoy-sidecar path the request it was written for is not parsed at all.
Dialect dispatch is exact-match against "/v1/messages" and the listeners
disagree on what Path holds:
forwardproxy Path: r.URL.Path -> /v1/messages
reverseproxy Path: r.URL.Path -> /v1/messages
extproc Path: getHeader(":path") -> /v1/messages?beta=true
HTTP/2's :path includes the query (RFC 9113 8.3.1), and Claude Code posts to
/v1/messages?beta=true. Both resulting failures are silent, and were confirmed
by reverting each half in turn:
- switch not normalised: OnRequest falls to the default arm, leaving
Extensions.Inference nil, so the exchange is recorded nowhere;
- switch normalised but the four dialect-selection sites not: dispatch
matches, then an Anthropic stream is folded by the OpenAI handler, which
does not understand message_delta and yields prompt 0 / completion 0 /
total 0 rather than failing.
So all five sites normalise through one helper rather than only the switch.
This also covers the OpenAI paths for any client that appends a query.
Scoped to the parser deliberately: making extproc populate Path without the
query would be the deeper fix, but Path is read by other plugins (skip-host
matching, jwt-validation bypass_paths, lineage bypass paths) and changing its
meaning belongs in its own change.
Verified: go vet clean; go test -race ./plugins/inferenceparser/... ok;
go build ./... clean; gofmt clean. The new test fails without the fix with
"Extensions.Inference is nil" and, with only the switch restored, with
"tokens = prompt 0 / completion 0 / total 0 (wrong dialect?)".
Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Tight, well-scoped fix backed by wire-captured fixtures — 好饭不怕晚 (a good meal is worth the wait), and this one was worth waiting for the real beta-path bytes.
Two related fixes land here, both verified against main:
- Prompt side read from
message_deltawith a max-guard.promptTotal()sumsinput + cache_creation + cache_read, and the max-guard is load-bearing: on the plain pathmessage_deltacarries no input counts, so an unconditional assign would clobber the correctmessage_starttotal. Test arithmetic checks out (33772 and 511). endpointPath()query-string normalization across all five dispatch sites. The listener split is real:extprocpopulatesPathfrom the:pathpseudo-header (query included), whileforwardproxy/reverseproxyuser.URL.Path(query stripped). So/v1/messages?beta=truereally would miss the Anthropic branch in envoy-sidecar mode without this. The one logging site correctly keeps the raw path.
One housekeeping note: the description's "Deliberately out of scope" item #2 (path dispatch) is actually implemented in this PR (commit e957afd). Worth a one-line body tweak so the description matches the diff — not blocking.
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| // as 9). Take the larger value: on the non-beta path message_delta | ||
| // carries no input counts, and assigning unconditionally would | ||
| // clobber the correct message_start total with zero. | ||
| if p := ev.Usage.promptTotal(); p > state.usage.PromptTokens { |
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Non-blocking, and not a regression from this PR: if a terminal message_delta ever carried the prompt-cache counts with output_tokens == 0, PromptTokens gets refreshed but TotalTokens stays 0, so the finalize gate (if state.usage.TotalTokens > 0) would drop the whole prompt count. A real Anthropic turn always emits output_tokens > 0 on the final delta, so this is theoretical. If you want to harden it, recompute TotalTokens whenever PromptTokens changes rather than only inside the OutputTokens > 0 arm. This is the same case CodeRabbit flagged.
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The inference-parser records enough to see that a turn happened, but not enough to say what it cost. Three gaps, all on data already on the wire: Streamed tool calls were dropped. A tool call arrives across three event types — id and name on content_block_start, arguments as input_json_delta fragments that are only valid JSON once concatenated — and the stream folder modeled none of them. A streaming turn recorded finishReason "tool_use" with an empty toolCalls list while the equivalent non-streaming response recorded the call in full. Fragments are routed by content block index, so interleaved calls don't merge into each other. Non-text request messages read as free. Content keeps only text blocks, so a tool_result — a whole file, in an agent loop — flattens to "" while the model was billed for every byte. InferenceMessage.ContentBytes is the wire size of the content value before that reduction. It is a byte count, not a token count: a size signal, not an exact one. Prompt-cache writes and reads were collapsed into PromptTokens. A provider that prices caching charges a premium to write an entry and a steep discount to read one — 12.5x apart for Anthropic — so two turns with identical PromptTokens can differ by an order of magnitude in cost. CacheWriteTokens and CacheReadTokens split it, from the same usage block the totals already come from. Scope: OpenAI *streaming* tool calls remain uncaptured — a separate pre-existing gap. Recording streamed tool-call Arguments is parity with the non-streaming path, which already records them. Depends on the message_delta usage fix (rossoctl#811) — same hunk. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
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finalize gates the whole usage copy on TotalTokens > 0, but the Anthropic
fold only computed that total inside the output_tokens > 0 arm. Any stream
that reported a prompt and no completion therefore refreshed PromptTokens
and then threw it away.
Two streams do that, and the provider billed the prompt in both:
- a terminal message_delta carrying the prompt with output_tokens == 0
(a refusal, or a generation stopped immediately);
- a turn the caller interrupted after message_start, which never reaches
a message_delta at all — the shape an agent produces every time a user
cancels a running turn.
Derive the total from the parts after any usage update instead. The
interrupted case now records a real response row with prompt tokens and
zero completion rather than skip/no_response_body; recovery there is
partial by construction, since the ?beta=true path defers the cache
counts to message_delta.
The OpenAI fold is untouched: it takes total_tokens off the wire, where it
can legitimately differ from prompt + completion.
Raised in review of rossoctl#811 by CodeRabbit and @mrsabath.
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The inference-parser records enough to see that a turn happened, but not enough to say what it cost. Three gaps, all on data already on the wire: Streamed tool calls were dropped. A tool call arrives across three event types — id and name on content_block_start, arguments as input_json_delta fragments that are only valid JSON once concatenated — and the stream folder modeled none of them. A streaming turn recorded finishReason "tool_use" with an empty toolCalls list while the equivalent non-streaming response recorded the call in full. Fragments are routed by content block index, so interleaved calls don't merge into each other. Non-text request messages read as free. Content keeps only text blocks, so a tool_result — a whole file, in an agent loop — flattens to "" while the model was billed for every byte. InferenceMessage.ContentBytes is the wire size of the content value before that reduction. It is a byte count, not a token count: a size signal, not an exact one. Prompt-cache writes and reads were collapsed into PromptTokens. A provider that prices caching charges a premium to write an entry and a steep discount to read one — 12.5x apart for Anthropic — so two turns with identical PromptTokens can differ by an order of magnitude in cost. CacheWriteTokens and CacheReadTokens split it, from the same usage block the totals already come from. Scope: OpenAI *streaming* tool calls remain uncaptured — a separate pre-existing gap. Recording streamed tool-call Arguments is parity with the non-streaming path, which already records them. Depends on the message_delta usage fix (rossoctl#811) — same hunk. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
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…tput
finalize gates the whole usage copy on TotalTokens > 0, but the Anthropic
fold only computed that total inside the output_tokens > 0 arm. Any stream
that reported a prompt and no completion therefore refreshed PromptTokens
and then threw it away.
Two streams do that, and the provider billed the prompt in both:
- a terminal message_delta carrying the prompt with output_tokens == 0
(a refusal, or a generation stopped immediately);
- a turn the caller interrupted after message_start, which never reaches
a message_delta at all — the shape an agent produces every time a user
cancels a running turn.
Derive the total from the parts after any usage update instead. The
interrupted case now records a real response row with prompt tokens and
zero completion rather than skip/no_response_body; recovery there is
partial by construction, since the ?beta=true path defers the cache
counts to message_delta.
The OpenAI fold is untouched: it takes total_tokens off the wire, where it
can legitimately differ from prompt + completion.
Raised in review of rossoctl#811 by CodeRabbit and @mrsabath.
Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
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Problem
inference-parserrecordspromptTokensorders of magnitude too low for everyreal Claude Code request. Measured live against
authbridge-proxy --demothroughan Anthropic-compatible gateway, one Claude Code turn (
--model claude-haiku-4-5,a single Read-tool call) was recorded as:
The session rollup inherits the error, so token and cost telemetry is wrong by
three to four orders of magnitude for exactly the agent traffic the parser exists
to observe.
Root cause
Claude Code posts to
/v1/messages?beta=truewithanthropic-beta: interleaved-thinking-2025-05-14,claude-code-20250219. On thatpath the Messages API splits the usage block across events. Captured off the wire
for the request above (130 KB body, 27 tools, 3 system blocks,
cache_controlonsystem[1],system[2],messages[0][5]):message_startcarries onlyinput_tokens; the two cache counts — 33,763 ofthe 33,772 real prompt tokens — arrive two events later.
foldAnthropicFramesetstate.usage.PromptTokensonly in themessage_startcase and never revisitedthe prompt side, so it recorded 9.
promptTotal()itself is correct (input + cache_creation + cache_read). The bugis where it was read.
Fix
Refresh the prompt side in the
message_deltacase, from ausagestruct thatwas already being unmarshalled there.
Taking the larger value rather than assigning is load-bearing: on the plain
(non-beta) path
message_deltacarries no input counts, sopromptTotal()is 0and an unconditional assignment would clobber the correct
message_starttotal.The existing
StreamFoldsEventstest sends exactly that shape and still expects25.
Why this wasn't caught
It is not reproducible with a hand-rolled probe. Sending
/v1/messagesdirectly —without
?beta=trueand the claude-code beta header — puts the cache counts onmessage_start, where the old code read them correctly: a system-cached shape(4,423) and a tools-cached shape (19,060) both recorded exactly, streaming and
non-streaming. Only the real agent's beta path diverges, and the unit tests
modelled the plain path.
Testing
TestInferenceParser_AnthropicMessages_StreamBetaPathUsageuses the usageblocks captured verbatim from the real wire. Against the old code it fails with
PromptTokens = 9, reproducing the live number exactly; it passes with the fix.go test ./authlib/...— 47 packages ok, 0 fail.golangci-lint run ./plugins/inferenceparser/...— 0 issues.(
lsofused to confirm which binary held the port). RecordedpromptTokenswent 9 → 33,772 and 4 → 34,018, matching the captured bytes. The tool call and
answer were unaffected.
Deliberately out of scope
Adjacent findings, kept separate rather than widening this PR:
cache_creation_input_tokensandcache_read_input_tokensare collapsedinto one number. Both are on the event this PR starts reading, so surfacing
them as separate fields is nearly free — and worthwhile, since a cache write
bills 1.25× base and a read 0.1× (a 12.5× spread) and the two are currently
indistinguishable. Verified: a 5,213-token write and a 5,213-token read both
recorded
promptTokens = 5225. Needs newpipeline.InferenceExtensionfieldsplus abctl display, so it belongs in its own change.
The parser does not record the request's
systemblock at all (onlymessagesand
tools), so cached system content is invisible in the captured event evenwhen it dominates the prompt.
Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com
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