dialecticMaxChars (default 600) is documented as the budget for the dialectic
supplement auto-injected into the system prompt every turn — a small recurring
cost that is correct to bound tightly. But dialectic_query() applied that cap
unconditionally, so explicit honcho_reasoning tool calls — where the model
deliberately spends a turn asking for a synthesized answer — were silently
truncated mid-word to 600 chars with a trailing " …", no error surfaced. The
full answer is returned by Honcho server-side; the clip happens client-side.
The auto-injection path already has its own token-based budget (contextTokens,
enforced in prefetch() via _truncate_to_budget), so the char cap's real job is a
cheap always-on guardrail for that recurring injection. Explicit tool results
are already bounded server-side by Honcho's dialectic MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS and don't
need the injection cap — sibling tools (honcho_search, honcho_context) don't
post-clip their results either.
Add apply_injection_cap (default True, preserving current behavior) to
dialectic_query(); the honcho_reasoning tool handler passes False so it returns
Honcho's full synthesized answer. Auto-injection is unchanged. Tests cover both
the capped injection path and the uncapped tool path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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