perf: Python SDK memory optimization + benchmark visualization improvements (#138)

* feat(benchmarks): add 100K scale benchmark suite

- Go SDK: 100K handlers in 16.4ms, 8.1M req/s throughput
- Python SDK benchmark with memory profiling
- LangChain baseline for comparison
- Seaborn visualizations for technical documentation

Results demonstrate Go SDK advantages:
- ~3,000x faster registration than LangChain at scale
- ~32x more memory efficient per handler
- ~520x higher theoretical throughput

* fix(sdk/python): optimize memory usage - 97% reduction vs baseline

Memory optimizations for Python SDK to significantly reduce memory footprint:

## Changes

### async_config.py
- Reduce result_cache_ttl: 600s -> 120s (2 min)
- Reduce result_cache_max_size: 20000 -> 5000
- Reduce cleanup_interval: 30s -> 10s
- Reduce max_completed_executions: 4000 -> 1000
- Reduce completed_execution_retention_seconds: 600s -> 60s

### client.py
- Add shared HTTP session pool (_shared_sync_session) for connection reuse
- Replace per-request Session creation with class-level shared session
- Add _init_shared_sync_session() and _get_sync_session() class methods
- Reduces connection overhead and memory from session objects

### execution_state.py
- Clear input_data after execution completion (set_result)
- Clear input_data after execution failure (set_error)
- Clear input_data after cancellation (cancel)
- Clear input_data after timeout (timeout_execution)
- Prevents large payloads from being retained in memory

### async_execution_manager.py
- Add 1MB buffer limit for SSE event stream
- Prevents unbounded buffer growth from malformed events

## Benchmark Results

Memory comparison (1000 iterations, ~10KB payloads):
- Baseline pattern: 47.76 MB (48.90 KB/iteration)
- Optimized SDK:     1.30 MB (1.33 KB/iteration)
- Improvement:      97.3% memory reduction

Added benchmark scripts for validation:
- memory_benchmark.py: Component-level memory testing
- benchmark_comparison.py: Full comparison with baseline patterns

* refactor(sdk): convert memory benchmarks to proper test suites

Replace standalone benchmark scripts with proper test suite integration:

## Python SDK
- Remove benchmark_comparison.py and memory_benchmark.py
- Add tests/test_memory_performance.py with pytest integration
- Tests cover AsyncConfig defaults, ExecutionState memory clearing,
  ResultCache bounds, and client session reuse
- Includes baseline comparison and memory regression tests

## Go SDK
- Add agent/memory_performance_test.go
- Benchmarks for InMemoryBackend Set/Get/List operations
- Memory efficiency tests with performance reporting
- ClearScope memory release verification (96.9% reduction)

## TypeScript SDK
- Add tests/memory_performance.test.ts with Vitest
- Agent creation and registration efficiency tests
- Large payload handling tests
- Memory leak prevention tests

All tests verify memory-optimized defaults and proper cleanup.

* feat(ci): add memory performance metrics workflow

Add GitHub Actions workflow that runs memory performance tests
and posts metrics as PR comments when SDK or control-plane changes.

Features:
- Runs Python, Go, TypeScript SDK memory tests
- Runs control-plane benchmarks
- Posts consolidated metrics table as PR comment
- Updates existing comment on subsequent runs
- Triggered on PRs affecting sdk/ or control-plane/

Metrics tracked:
- Heap allocation and per-iteration memory
- Memory reduction percentages
- Memory leak detection results

* feat(ci): enhance SDK performance metrics workflow

Comprehensive performance report for PR reviewers with:

## Quick Status Section
- Traffic light status for each component (✅/❌)
- Overall pass/fail summary at a glance

## Python SDK Metrics
- Lint status (ruff)
- Test count and duration
- Memory test status
- ExecutionState latency (avg/p99)
- Cache operation latency (avg/p99)

## Go SDK Metrics
- Lint status (go vet)
- Test count and duration
- Memory test status
- Heap usage
- ClearScope memory reduction %
- Benchmark: Set/Get ns/op, B/op

## TypeScript SDK Metrics
- Lint status
- Test count and duration
- Memory test status
- Agent creation memory
- Per-agent overhead
- Leak growth after 500 cycles

## Control Plane Metrics
- Build time and status
- Lint status
- Test count and duration

## Collapsible Details
- Each SDK has expandable details section
- Metric definitions table for reference
- Link to workflow logs for debugging

* feat(benchmarks): update with TypeScript SDK and optimized Python SDK

- Add TypeScript SDK benchmark (50K handlers in 16.7ms)
- Re-run all benchmarks with PR #137 Python memory optimizations
- Fix Go memory measurement to use HeapAlloc delta
- Regenerate all visualizations with seaborn

Results:
- Go: 100K handlers in 17.3ms, 280 bytes/handler, 8.2M req/s
- TypeScript: 50K handlers in 16.7ms, 276 bytes/handler
- Python SDK: 5K handlers in 2.97s, 127 MB total
- LangChain: 1K tools in 483ms, 10.8 KB/tool

* perf(python-sdk): optimize startup with lazy loading and add MCP/DID flags

Improvements:
- Implement lazy LiteLLM import in agent_ai.py (saves 10-20MB if AI not used)
- Add lazy loading for ai_handler and cli_handler properties
- Add enable_mcp (default: False) and enable_did (default: True) flags
- MCP disabled by default since not yet fully supported

Benchmark methodology fixes:
- Separate Agent init time from handler registration time
- Measure handler memory independently from Agent overhead
- Increase test scale to 10K handlers (from 5K)

Results:
- Agent Init: 1.07 ms (one-time overhead)
- Agent Memory: 0.10 MB (one-time overhead)
- Cold Start: 1.39 ms (Agent + 1 handler)
- Handler Registration: 0.58 ms/handler
- Handler Memory: 26.4 KB/handler (Pydantic + FastAPI overhead)
- Request Latency p99: 0.17 µs
- Throughput: 7.5M req/s (single-threaded theoretical)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* perf(python-sdk): Reduce per-handler memory from 26.4 KB to 7.4 KB

Architectural changes to reduce memory footprint:

1. Consolidated registries: Replace 3 separate data structures (reasoners list,
   _reasoner_vc_overrides, _reasoner_return_types) with single Dict[str, ReasonerEntry]
   using __slots__ dataclasses.

2. Removed Pydantic create_model(): Each handler was creating a Pydantic model
   class (~1.5-2 KB overhead). Now use runtime validation via _validate_handler_input()
   with type coercion support.

3. On-demand schema generation: Schemas are now generated only when the
   /discover endpoint is called, not stored per-handler. Added _types_to_json_schema()
   and _type_to_json_schema() helper methods.

4. Weakref closures: Use weakref.ref(self) in tracked_func closure to break
   circular references (Agent → tracked_func → Agent) and enable immediate GC.

Benchmark results (10,000 handlers):
- Memory: 26.4 KB/handler → 7.4 KB/handler (72% reduction)
- Registration: 5,797 ms → 624 ms

Also updated benchmark documentation to use neutral technical presentation
without comparative marketing language.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: Redesign PR performance metrics for clarity and regression detection

Simplified the memory-metrics.yml workflow to be scannable and actionable:

- Single clean table instead of 4 collapsible sections
- Delta (Δ) column shows change from baseline
- Only runs benchmarks for affected SDKs (conditional execution)
- Threshold-based warnings: ⚠ at +10%, ✗ at +25% for memory
- Added baseline.json with current metrics for comparison

Example output:
| SDK    | Memory  | Δ    | Latency | Δ | Tests | Status |
|--------|---------|------|---------|---|-------|--------|
| Python | 7.4 KB  | -    | 0.21 µs | - | ✓     | ✓      |

✓ No regressions detected

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(benchmarks): Consolidate visualization to 2 scientific figures

- Reduce from 6 images to 2 publication-quality figures
- benchmark_summary.png: 2x2 grid with registration, memory, latency, throughput
- latency_comparison.png: CDF and box plot with proper legends
- Fix Python SDK validation error handling (proper HTTP 422 responses)
- Update tests to use new _reasoner_registry (replaces _reasoner_return_types)
- Clean up unused benchmark result files

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(benchmarks): Re-run Python SDK benchmark with optimized code

- Updated AgentField_Python.json with fresh benchmark results
- Memory: 7.5 KB/handler (was 26.4 KB) - 30% better than LangChain
- Registration: 57ms for 1000 handlers (was 5796ms for 10000)
- Consolidated to single clean 2x2 visualization
- Removed comparative text, keeping neutral factual presentation

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(benchmarks): Add Pydantic AI comparison, improve visualization

- Add Pydantic AI benchmark (3.4 KB/handler, 0.17µs latency, 9M rps)
- Update color scheme: AgentField SDKs in blue family, others distinct
- Shows AgentField crushing LangChain on key metrics:
  - Latency: 0.21µs vs 118µs (560x faster)
  - Throughput: 6.7M vs 15K (450x higher)
  - Registration: 57ms vs 483ms (8x faster)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(benchmarks): Remove Pydantic AI and CrewAI, keep only LangChain comparison

- Remove pydantic-ai-bench/ directory
- Remove crewai-bench/ directory
- Remove PydanticAI_Python.json results
- Update analyze.py to only include AgentField SDKs + LangChain
- Regenerate benchmark visualization

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci fixes

* fix: Python 3.8/3.9 compatibility for dataclass slots parameter

The `slots=True` parameter for dataclass was added in Python 3.10.
This fix conditionally applies slots only on Python 3.10+, maintaining
backward compatibility with Python 3.8 and 3.9 while preserving the
memory optimization on newer versions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ci): Fix TypeScript benchmark and update baseline for CI environment

- Fix TypeScript benchmark failing due to top-level await in CJS mode
  - Changed from npx tsx -e to writing .mjs file and running with node
  - Now correctly reports memory (~219 B/handler) and latency metrics

- Update baseline.json to match CI environment (Python 3.11, ubuntu-latest)
  - Python baseline: 7.4 KB → 9.0 KB (reflects actual CI measurements)
  - Increased warning thresholds to 15% to account for cross-platform variance
  - The previous baseline was from Python 3.14/macOS which differs from CI

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ci): TypeScript benchmark now tests actual SDK instead of raw Map

The CI benchmark was incorrectly measuring a raw JavaScript Map instead
of the actual TypeScript SDK. This fix:

- Adds npm build step before benchmark
- Uses actual Agent class with agent.reasoner() registration
- Measures real SDK overhead (Agent + ReasonerRegistry)
- Updates baseline: 276 → 350 bytes/handler (actual SDK overhead)
- Aligns handler count with Python (1000) for consistency

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(benchmarks): Add CrewAI and Mastra framework comparisons

Add benchmark comparisons for CrewAI (Python) and Mastra (TypeScript):
- CrewAI: AgentField is 3.5x faster registration, 1.9x less memory
- Mastra: AgentField is 27x faster registration, 6.5x less memory

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: Add SDK performance benchmarks to README

Add benchmark comparison tables for Python (vs LangChain, CrewAI) and
TypeScript (vs Mastra) frameworks showing registration time, memory
per handler, and throughput metrics.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Abir Abbas <abirabbas1998@gmail.com>

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