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fix(openrouter): send task session_id and cache-write usage for prompt caching - #2245
Three gaps reported in #1277, all inside src/api/providers/openrouter.ts:
Session affinity.createMessage now sends the task ID as OpenRouter's top-level session_id. OpenRouter derives its sticky-routing key from the first system and first non-system message unless session_id is present, and without it stickiness only starts after a cache hit is observed. Sending the task ID pins every turn of a task to the endpoint holding its warm cache from the first request. The value is truncated to OpenRouter's documented 256-character limit, and no session_id is sent when there is no task ID.
Cache breakpoints for new Claude models. Breakpoint placement was gated only by the static OPEN_ROUTER_PROMPT_CACHING_MODELS set, so a Claude model released after that set was last edited received no cache_control markers even though OpenRouter advertises cache pricing for it. The gate is now allowlist.has(modelId) || (modelId.startsWith("anthropic/") && catalogInfo?.supportsPromptCache === true), where catalogInfo is this.models[modelId] and only exists when the id actually resolved from the fetched catalog. That flag is derived from OpenRouter's live pricing.input_cache_read in src/api/providers/fetchers/openrouter.ts. The allowlist stays as the fallback, and Gemini plus every other provider keep allowlist-only behavior because breakpoint placement is not interchangeable between them. The gate deliberately reads the model-level catalog record rather than the resolved model.info, because model.info is not a live source: an empty catalog falls back to openRouterDefaultModelInfo (which hardcodes supportsPromptCache: true), and a pinned openRouterSpecificProvider substitutes that endpoint's record, whose flag comes from one endpoint's pricing.
Cache-write accounting.usage.prompt_tokens_details.cache_write_tokens is now mapped into the usage chunk's cacheWriteTokens, which src/api/transform/stream.ts already models and Task.ts already accumulates into cacheWrites and cost calculation. Previously the field was read as undefined and cache writes were dropped.
What this does NOT cover
Not verified against the live OpenRouter API. The wire contract is pinned to OpenRouter's published documentation (session_id as a top-level body field, max 256 characters, and prompt_tokens_details.cache_write_tokens in the usage object). No request was made against a real OpenRouter endpoint, so the end-to-end cache-hit improvement is unmeasured. The reported ~5x cost regression is not reproduced or quantified here.
completePrompt does not send session_id. That path is a single-shot completion with no task metadata in scope, so the sticky-routing benefit does not apply to it.
The static allowlist is not updated. No new model IDs were added to OPEN_ROUTER_PROMPT_CACHING_MODELS; the live metadata flag is what covers new releases. The TODO about a promptCacheStrategy field on ModelInfo remains open (its pre-existing typo promptCacheStratey was corrected in the comment only).
Gemini's implicit caching path is untouched. Gemini models absent from the allowlist still get no explicit breakpoints, matching prior behavior.
No cost-estimate change.totalCost still comes from OpenRouter's own cost / cost_details.upstream_inference_cost; cacheWriteTokens feeds the local calculateApiCostOpenAI path in Task.ts, which only applies when the provider does not report its own cost.
Session affinity is inactive when a specific provider is pinned. OpenRouter disables sticky routing when a manual provider.order is supplied, and createMessage sets provider.order / provider.only whenever openRouterSpecificProvider is a concrete provider. In that configuration session_id still groups the task in OpenRouter's Sessions view, but routing is decided by the pin rather than by the affinity key, so the cache-warming benefit is limited to that one provider's own cache. This is documented in the comment at the session_id spread site.
Tests
src/api/providers/__tests__/openrouter.spec.ts — 10 new cases at the provider request-construction and usage-mapping layer:
cache control is added for anthropic/claude-opus-4.8, a mock model deliberately absent from the static allowlist
Gemini breakpoints stay allowlist-only (a non-allowlisted Gemini model gets no markers)
no cache breakpoints are added when the catalog is empty and the id is not allowlisted
the cache capability is read from the model record when a provider is pinned, even though the endpoint record denies caching
no cache breakpoints are added when a pinned endpoint advertises caching that the model record denies
the task ID is sent as session_id
no session_id is sent when there is no task ID
an over-long task ID is truncated to 256 characters
cached_tokens and cache_write_tokens both reach the usage chunk, and both stay unset when OpenRouter reports no cache usage
Cases 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 were confirmed to fail against the pre-fix implementation and pass after it. Case 2 (the non-allowlisted Gemini guard) is a negative control pinning unchanged behavior — it passes before and after by design; a gate mutation that drops the anthropic-prefix conjunct kills it. google/gemini-9-pro is present in the mocked catalog with supportsPromptCache: true, so the negative control states its premise instead of leaning on the hardcoded default info's flag.
pnpm --dir src exec vitest run api/providers/__tests__/openrouter.spec.ts
Test Files 1 passed (1)
Tests 48 passed (48)
pnpm --dir src exec vitest run api/providers/__tests__/openrouter.spec.ts \
api/providers/fetchers/__tests__/openrouter.spec.ts api/transform
Test Files 25 passed (25)
Tests 632 passed | 1 skipped (633)
pnpm --dir src run check-types passes. ESLint with --max-warnings=0 is clean on both touched files, and src/eslint-suppressions.json counts are unchanged (6 for openrouter.ts, 34 for its spec, 338 entries total).
No .changeset file and no CHANGELOG edit, per AGENTS.md.
…t caching
What:
- Send the task ID as OpenRouter's top-level `session_id` so provider sticky
routing pins every turn of a task to the endpoint holding its warm cache.
- Treat a Claude model's live `supportsPromptCache` catalog flag as sufficient
to add explicit cache breakpoints, keeping the static allowlist as fallback.
- Map `usage.prompt_tokens_details.cache_write_tokens` into the usage chunk's
`cacheWriteTokens` so cache writes reach cost accounting.
Why:
OpenRouter only activates sticky routing after a cache hit unless `session_id`
is sent, so turns of one task could drift across upstream endpoints and miss
the cache. The static allowlist also lagged behind new Claude releases, leaving
them without explicit breakpoints, and cache-write tokens were dropped entirely
so cost tracking under-reported writes. Reported as ~5x cost increase on
Claude Opus via OpenRouter in Zoo-Code-Org#1277.
Impact:
Behavior is additive: no `session_id` is sent without a task ID, Gemini and
other providers keep allowlist-only breakpoint placement, and the usage chunk
only gains an optional field.
FixesZoo-Code-Org#1277
Prompt caching is supported for eligible Anthropic models, including catalog-listed models that report support dynamically.
Requests can include a session identifier, truncated to 256 characters when necessary.
Improvements
Usage reporting includes cache read and write tokens when available; cache usage fields remain unset when no cache usage is reported.
The OpenRouter provider now selects Anthropic cache breakpoints using model metadata, sends task IDs as session IDs, and reports cache-write tokens. Tests cover these changes and Gemini breakpoint behavior.
The provider enables cache breakpoints for allowlisted models and catalog-listed Anthropic models whose metadata reports prompt-cache support. Tests cover pinned-provider behavior, an uncataloged Claude ID, and an unlisted Gemini model.
Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code#2191: Both changes use OpenRouter model-catalog data; this PR reads the fetched model record to select Anthropic cache breakpoints.
Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code#2216: This PR supplies OpenRouter cache-write usage that connects to the other PR’s cache-write aggregation.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 92ee5
The change is mergeable with a small test improvement: assert that negative caching requests contain no cache markers, including on user messages.
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Changed behavior: createMessage sends session_id only when the truncated task ID is truthy (openrouter.ts:232 and :356, ...(sessionId ? { session_id: sessionId } : {})). The empty-string inp…
Add a focused createMessage test in src/api/providers/__tests__/openrouter.spec.ts. Pass { taskId: "" } as metadata. Use the same OpenAI.prototype.chat stub pattern as the existing session_id tests. Assert that the captured reques…
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The title clearly summarizes the main changes: sending OpenRouter task session IDs and reporting cache-write usage for prompt caching.
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The description is detailed and covers the linked issue, implementation decisions, scope limits, tests, and validation results. It does not follow every template heading or include the pre-submission …
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Issue #1277 requires stable session affinity, cache breakpoints for cache-capable Anthropic models, preserved explicit Gemini behavior, and cache read/write reporting. createMessage sends a present …
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The changes stay within issue #1277. Production changes affect OpenRouter request construction, Anthropic cache-breakpoint eligibility, and OpenRouter cache usage mapping. The tests verify these chang…
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The changed code is in src/api/providers/openrouter.ts and its spec. I read the full diff for openrouter.ts (the spec file is test-only). No changed path meets the custom check's failure condition…
Persistence Integrity
The PR changes two files: src/api/providers/openrouter.ts and its spec. The openrouter.ts diff covers three areas, and none of them is a persistence write path. 1. session_id is added to the out…
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The check fails only when a changed lifecycle path can leak a listener, watcher, provider, timer, task, or other resource, or duplicate work after cancellation, disposal, or restart. The PR changes tw…
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The description is detailed and covers the linked issue, implementation decisions, scope limits, tests, and validation results. It does not follow every template heading or include the pre-submission checklist, but the required technical information is mostly complete.
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Issue #1277 requires stable session affinity, cache breakpoints for cache-capable Anthropic models, preserved explicit Gemini behavior, and cache read/write reporting. createMessage sends a present task ID as top-level session_id and truncates it to 256 characters. Breakpoint eligibility uses the allowlist or a catalog-resolved Anthropic model with supportsPromptCache === true; other providers remain allowlist-only. cache_write_tokens maps to cacheWriteTokens. Focused tests cover these behaviors, including omission and truncation cases.
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The changes stay within issue #1277. Production changes affect OpenRouter request construction, Anthropic cache-breakpoint eligibility, and OpenRouter cache usage mapping. The tests verify these changes. The PR does not add unrelated provider behavior or change completePrompt, Gemini implicit caching, the static allowlist, or cost-estimate behavior.
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The changed code is in src/api/providers/openrouter.ts and its spec. I read the full diff for openrouter.ts (the spec file is test-only). No changed path meets the custom check's failure conditions. - Secret or PII leakage: The only new outbound data is metadata.taskId, sent as top-level session_id (truncated to 256 characters, omitted when empty). A task ID is an internal opaque identifier, not a credential or personal data. OpenRouter already receives the task's messages in the same request, so this adds no new recipient for sensitive content. The cache_write_tokens mapping is an inbound numeric usage counter. - Untrusted input execution: No new code evaluates or executes input. The session_id value is sliced to a length limit and placed in the JSON body. The new cacheWriteTokens field is a numeric usage value that flows into the existing usage chunk and cost path. - Approval or allowlist bypass:OPEN_ROUTER_PROMPT_CACHING_MODELS only decides where prompt-cache cache_control markers go. It is not an approval or access-control list. The diff keeps it as a union member (allowlist.has(modelId) || ...), so no previously allowed model is removed. The new Anthropic path reads this.models through Object.hasOwn, so it relies on the fetched catalog flag and not on a default. Gemini and other providers stay allowlist-only. This broadens a cache-marker feature gate, not a security boundary. No changed path leaks secrets or PII, executes unvalidated input, or bypasses an approval or allowlist control.
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The PR changes two files: src/api/providers/openrouter.ts and its spec. The openrouter.ts diff covers three areas, and none of them is a persistence write path. 1. session_id is added to the outgoing request body, truncated to 256 characters. This is request construction, not storage. 2. The cache-breakpoint gate now also accepts anthropic/* models whose this.models[modelId].supportsPromptCache === true. This changes which in-memory request messages get cache_control markers. It does not read or write persisted state. The code deliberately avoids model.info, so the hardcoded openRouterDefaultModelInfo default is not used as a live source. That avoids the default-propagation concern rather than creating it. 3. prompt_tokens_details.cache_write_tokens is mapped to cacheWriteTokens in the usage chunk. The diff does not touch the consumer. The author states that Task.ts already accumulates this value, and that accumulation is not part of this diff. The diff contains no new await or missing-await pattern, no file or database write, no atomic-write change, and no rollback or partial-failure logic. The changed behavior is request shaping and usage mapping. No changed persistence path meets the stated failure conditions, so the check passes.
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The check fails only when a changed lifecycle path can leak a listener, watcher, provider, timer, task, or other resource, or duplicate work after cancellation, disposal, or restart. The PR changes two files: src/api/providers/openrouter.ts and its spec. The openrouter.ts diff has these changes: - A session_id field is added to the request body. It is computed per call as metadata?.taskId?.slice(0, 256). This creates no listener, timer, watcher, or provider. - supportsCacheBreakpoints is a boolean gate. It reads this.models through Object.hasOwn and then adds cache_control markers to the in-memory openAiMessages. It does not create or hold any resource. - cacheWriteTokens is mapped from usage.prompt_tokens_details.cache_write_tokens in the usage chunk. This is a pure value mapping. The diff adds no subscriptions, timers, intervals, streams, abort handling, or background tasks. It does not change how createMessage handles cancellation or disposal. No retry or restart path is added that could repeat work. The spec changes are test-only. Because no changed path touches resource lifecycle, the failure condition is not met.
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Changed behavior: createMessage sends session_id only when the truncated task ID is truthy (openrouter.ts:232 and :356, ...(sessionId ? { session_id: sessionId } : {})). The empty-string input is a distinct input to this conditional. It takes the unset path, but no test covers it. Current spec coverage for session_id (src/api/providers/__tests__/openrouter.spec.ts): - Line 736: positive case, taskId: "task-123", asserts session_id: "task-123". - Lines 746-764: omission case, no metadata passed, asserts not.toHaveProperty("session_id"). - Lines 766-788: truncation case, 300-character ID, asserts 256 characters. No test passes { taskId: "" }. The grep for taskId in the spec shows no empty-string case. A plausible regression is a change that forwards the raw string, for example session_id: metadata?.taskId ?? "". Such a change would send session_id: "" to OpenRouter. The no-metadata test does not exercise that path, because the value is undefined there. The prior failure's claim is factually correct and still applies to the current tree. The other prior items are present: the negative cache-capability test and the usage tests. The required fix is a focused createMessage test with { taskId: "" } that asserts session_id is absent. Primary PR author: myk1yt (provider-reported). This does not affect the verdict.
Resolution
Add a focused createMessage test in src/api/providers/__tests__/openrouter.spec.ts. Pass { taskId: "" } as metadata. Use the same OpenAI.prototype.chat stub pattern as the existing session_id tests. Assert that the captured request does not have a session_id property (for example, expect(requestParams).not.toHaveProperty("session_id")). Keep the existing positive, truncation, no-metadata, cache-capability, and usage tests.
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Add a test for an allowlisted Claude model with supportsPromptCache: false.
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Add a test for an allowlisted Claude model with supportsPromptCache: false.
supportsCacheBreakpoints now also accepts an anthropic/ model whose live metadata reports prompt-cache support. Every Anthropic model in the spec has true metadata, or falls back to default metadata that is also true. No test covers an allowlisted Anthropic model with false metadata. Removing the allowlist check would not fail any current Anthropic cache test. At the merge base, the allowlist was the only condition, so the existing anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet test caught its removal. That model now also gets breakpoints from metadata.
Add anthropic/claude-3-haiku to the getModels mock as a top-level sibling entry with supportsPromptCache: false. The ID is allowlisted and no other spec test uses it. Do not nest it inside another model's object. An ID that is absent from the catalog uses default metadata, which reports supportsPromptCache: true, so the false-metadata case would not run.
Then assert that a request for this model still adds cache_control to the system message. Test guidance for __tests__ files requires false and unset cases.
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Add an `anthropic/claude-3-haiku` top-level entry to the `getModels` mock with
`supportsPromptCache` set to false, then add a request test asserting that
`mockCreate` receives a system message with `cache_control` for that model. Keep
the model entry separate from other model objects so the test exercises the
allowlist path with explicit false metadata.
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What:
- Gate the Claude cache-breakpoint widening on the model-level catalog record
(`this.models[modelId]`) instead of the resolved `model.info`, and require the
id to have actually resolved from the fetched catalog.
- Qualify the `session_id` comment: OpenRouter does not use sticky routing when a
manual `provider.order` is set, so pinning a provider limits the benefit.
- Add `google/gemini-9-pro` to the mocked catalog so the Gemini negative control
states its premise instead of leaning on the hardcoded default info's flag.
- Extract the repeated OpenAI `chat.completions.create` stub into one test helper.
Why:
Round-1 review found the widened gate fails open in two ways. `model.info` is not
a live capability source: on an empty or degraded catalog it is
`openRouterDefaultModelInfo`, which hardcodes `supportsPromptCache: true`, so any
`anthropic/*` id gained breakpoints the base allowlist withheld. With a pinned
`openRouterSpecificProvider`, `getModel()` substitutes that endpoint's record,
whose flag comes from one endpoint's pricing, so the same Claude model gained or
lost breakpoints depending on pinning and the fix silently disappeared.
Impact:
Behavior is unchanged for allowlisted ids and for every non-Anthropic id. A
non-allowlisted `anthropic/*` id now needs a `supportsPromptCache: true` record
from the fetched catalog, which is exactly what the live flag meant to say.
Strengthen the negative cache assertions to check every request message.
The three negative tests (Gemini, empty catalog, and pinned endpoint) assert messages: [{ role: "system", content: "test system" }, expect.anything()]. expect.anything() accepts any non-null value. A cache_control marker on the user message still passes these assertions. The system-message entry is strict, so a marker on the system message fails them. The gap is therefore limited to non-system messages. These tests are documented as adding no cache breakpoints.
No current code path adds a breakpoint while the gate is closed, so this gap does not cause a production failure today. A future regression that marks only non-system messages could still pass the suite. Add an explicit check that the serialized request has no cache_control marker:
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Should there be a test for the allowlist fallback here? The only empty-catalog test uses a non-allowlisted ID, and every allowlisted anthropic/* ID in the mocked catalog has supportsPromptCache: true. If has(modelId) || became &&, I think every test would still pass. A case with getModels returning {} and an allowlisted ID such as anthropic/claude-sonnet-4, expecting cache_control on the system message, would cover it.
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What this changes
Three gaps reported in #1277, all inside
src/api/providers/openrouter.ts:Session affinity.
createMessagenow sends the task ID as OpenRouter's top-levelsession_id. OpenRouter derives its sticky-routing key from the first system and first non-system message unlesssession_idis present, and without it stickiness only starts after a cache hit is observed. Sending the task ID pins every turn of a task to the endpoint holding its warm cache from the first request. The value is truncated to OpenRouter's documented 256-character limit, and nosession_idis sent when there is no task ID.Cache breakpoints for new Claude models. Breakpoint placement was gated only by the static
OPEN_ROUTER_PROMPT_CACHING_MODELSset, so a Claude model released after that set was last edited received nocache_controlmarkers even though OpenRouter advertises cache pricing for it. The gate is nowallowlist.has(modelId) || (modelId.startsWith("anthropic/") && catalogInfo?.supportsPromptCache === true), wherecatalogInfoisthis.models[modelId]and only exists when the id actually resolved from the fetched catalog. That flag is derived from OpenRouter's livepricing.input_cache_readinsrc/api/providers/fetchers/openrouter.ts. The allowlist stays as the fallback, and Gemini plus every other provider keep allowlist-only behavior because breakpoint placement is not interchangeable between them. The gate deliberately reads the model-level catalog record rather than the resolvedmodel.info, becausemodel.infois not a live source: an empty catalog falls back toopenRouterDefaultModelInfo(which hardcodessupportsPromptCache: true), and a pinnedopenRouterSpecificProvidersubstitutes that endpoint's record, whose flag comes from one endpoint's pricing.Cache-write accounting.
usage.prompt_tokens_details.cache_write_tokensis now mapped into the usage chunk'scacheWriteTokens, whichsrc/api/transform/stream.tsalready models andTask.tsalready accumulates intocacheWritesand cost calculation. Previously the field was read asundefinedand cache writes were dropped.What this does NOT cover
session_idas a top-level body field, max 256 characters, andprompt_tokens_details.cache_write_tokensin the usage object). No request was made against a real OpenRouter endpoint, so the end-to-end cache-hit improvement is unmeasured. The reported ~5x cost regression is not reproduced or quantified here.completePromptdoes not sendsession_id. That path is a single-shot completion with no task metadata in scope, so the sticky-routing benefit does not apply to it.OPEN_ROUTER_PROMPT_CACHING_MODELS; the live metadata flag is what covers new releases. TheTODOabout apromptCacheStrategyfield onModelInforemains open (its pre-existing typopromptCacheStrateywas corrected in the comment only).totalCoststill comes from OpenRouter's owncost/cost_details.upstream_inference_cost;cacheWriteTokensfeeds the localcalculateApiCostOpenAIpath inTask.ts, which only applies when the provider does not report its own cost.provider.orderis supplied, andcreateMessagesetsprovider.order/provider.onlywheneveropenRouterSpecificProvideris a concrete provider. In that configurationsession_idstill groups the task in OpenRouter's Sessions view, but routing is decided by the pin rather than by the affinity key, so the cache-warming benefit is limited to that one provider's own cache. This is documented in the comment at thesession_idspread site.Tests
src/api/providers/__tests__/openrouter.spec.ts— 10 new cases at the provider request-construction and usage-mapping layer:anthropic/claude-opus-4.8, a mock model deliberately absent from the static allowlistsession_idsession_idis sent when there is no task IDcached_tokensandcache_write_tokensboth reach the usage chunk, and both stay unset when OpenRouter reports no cache usageCases 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 were confirmed to fail against the pre-fix implementation and pass after it. Case 2 (the non-allowlisted Gemini guard) is a negative control pinning unchanged behavior — it passes before and after by design; a gate mutation that drops the anthropic-prefix conjunct kills it.
google/gemini-9-prois present in the mocked catalog withsupportsPromptCache: true, so the negative control states its premise instead of leaning on the hardcoded default info's flag.pnpm --dir src run check-typespasses. ESLint with--max-warnings=0is clean on both touched files, andsrc/eslint-suppressions.jsoncounts are unchanged (6 foropenrouter.ts, 34 for its spec, 338 entries total).No
.changesetfile and noCHANGELOGedit, perAGENTS.md.Fixes #1277