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AIAgent init latency and blocking I/O fixes

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #57229 on 28 Jul 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These items address synchronous blocking network calls and unnecessary work performed during AIAgent construction, with related caching and lazy-initialization improvements to reduce startup overhead.

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  • #57229 perf(agent): AIAgent hot-path salvage — prompt-cache copy, reasoning-timeout precompute, lazy compressor init

    merged to main

    files: agent/context_compressor.py, agent/conversation_compression.py, agent/prompt_caching.py, agent/reasoning_timeouts.py, contributors/emails/[redacted:email], tests/agent/test_cjk_token_estimation.py, tests/agent/test_compress_focus.py, tests/agent/test_compression_small_ctx_threshold_floor.py, tests/agent/test_context_compressor.py, tests/agent/test_pre_compress_memory_context.py, tests/agent/test_prompt_caching.py, tests/agent/test_turn_context_overflow_warning.py, tests/run_agent/test_image_shrink_recovery.py, tests/run_agent/test_per_model_compression_threshold.py

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From the close comments: merged via another change 1

  • #38991 perf(agent): defer synchronous httpx.post out of AIAgent.__init__ (#32221) · merged via another change → #57229, #32221
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#32221[Bug]: AIAgent.init performs synchronous blocking network I/O (httpx.post) during construction
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28 Jul 2026

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