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…text Extracted document text is inlined into every model request that carries the attachment. A single PDF is roughly 25k tokens, so a couple of attached documents can consume the context budget before the model does any work, and they keep costing that on every subsequent turn in the thread. `IRONCLAW_ATTACHMENT_DOCUMENT_TEXT=pointer` makes a document contribute its stored project path plus a `read_file` instruction instead of its text, so the model pages in what it needs. The flag defaults to `inline` — today's behavior — and an unrecognized value falls back to `inline`, so a typo cannot silently withhold document text. Audio transcripts still inline in both modes: the flag is about documents, which are the ones that blow the budget. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MciaHokSWPNsR692c2cTw1
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In `@crates/domains/ironclaw_threads/src/attachment_context.rs`:
- Around line 580-584: Update the attachment-context tests around
augment_model_content_with_mode to exercise the caller-level
augment_model_content path: set the supported environment override for pointer
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| let out = augment_model_content_with_mode( | ||
| "see attached".to_string(), | ||
| &[doc_ref(Some("Quarterly revenue up 12%"))], | ||
| DocumentTextMode::Pointer, | ||
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Test the environment-selected mode through augment_model_content.
These tests pass DocumentTextMode directly to the test helper. They do not execute document_text_mode() or env_or_override. A regression that always selects Inline passes all added tests.
Set the supported environment override, then call augment_model_content for pointer, unset, and unrecognized values.
As per coding guidelines, “New or changed production-wired behavior needs a caller-level test.” As per path instructions, “Test through the caller.”
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In `@crates/domains/ironclaw_threads/src/attachment_context.rs` around lines 580 -
584, Update the attachment-context tests around augment_model_content_with_mode
to exercise the caller-level augment_model_content path: set the supported
environment override for pointer mode, unset it for the default behavior, and
test an unrecognized value, ensuring environment selection flows through
document_text_mode and env_or_override rather than passing DocumentTextMode
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Attaching a document silently spends most of the model's context. Extracted document text is inlined into the model request, and a single PDF is roughly 25k tokens — attach two or three and the budget is gone before the model does any work. It also keeps costing that on every later turn in the thread, because the attachment stays in the transcript.
This adds an opt-in mode where a document contributes its stored path instead of its text, and the model reads the file when it actually needs it.
Evidence
Same attachment, same question, on a live deployment. The only difference is the flag:
inline(default, today)pointerbuiltin.read_file, reads the file, then answersBoth return the correct answer. In pointer mode the document never enters the prompt.
What changed
IRONCLAW_ATTACHMENT_DOCUMENT_TEXTselectsinline(default) orpointer.Documentrenders as its project path plus aread_fileinstruction; an unstored document says so instead of pointing at a path that does not exist.inline, so a typo cannot silently withhold document text from the model.model_safe_extracted_text) is untouched and still applies wherever text is inlined.Verify
18 tests.
pointer_mode_does_not_inline_document_textandpointer_mode_marks_an_unstored_document_as_not_storedcover the new path;default_mode_is_inlinepins the default so the flag cannot drift into beingon-by-default.
Risk
Default behavior is byte-identical — with the flag unset nothing changes, which is why the existing attachment tests pass unmodified. Rollback is a revert, or simply unsetting the variable on a deployment that had opted in.
Not covered: the mode is a single global switch. Choosing it per model or per file type would be the natural next step, and the enum is shaped so that can grow without another flag.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01MciaHokSWPNsR692c2cTw1