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Pre-compile Regex Patterns for Markdown Stripping#4714

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What does this PR do?

Pre-compiles regex patterns used for markdown stripping in TTS and messaging functions, eliminating repeated regex compilation overhead on every function call. This improves performance for voice mode and SMS sending.

Related Issue

N/A (performance optimization)

Type of Change

  • ♻️ Refactor (no behavior change)

Changes Made

  • tools/send_message_tool.py: Pre-compiled 9 markdown stripping regex patterns into _MD_STRIP_PATTERNS tuple at module load
  • tools/tts_tool.py: Pre-compiled 10 markdown stripping regex patterns into _MD_STRIP_PATTERNS tuple at module load
  • cli.py: Pre-compiled 10 markdown stripping regex patterns into _TTS_MD_PATTERNS tuple at module load

Before: Each function called re.sub() 9-10 times sequentially, recompiling patterns on every invocation.

After: Patterns pre-compiled once at import time in a tuple, then applied in a loop.

How to Test

  1. Run syntax checks:

    python3 -m py_compile tools/send_message_tool.py tools/tts_tool.py cli.py
  2. Verify imports work:

    python3 -c "from tools.send_message_tool import _MD_STRIP_PATTERNS; print('OK')"
    python3 -c "from tools.tts_tool import _MD_STRIP_PATTERNS; print('OK')"
    python3 -c "from cli import _TTS_MD_PATTERNS; print('OK')"
  3. Test pattern correctness:

    import re
    _MD_STRIP_PATTERNS = (
        (re.compile(r'\*\*(.+?)\*\*'), r'\1'),
        (re.compile(r'\*(.+?)\*'), r'\1'),
        (re.compile(r'__(.+?)__'), r'\1'),
        (re.compile(r'_(.+?)_'), r'\1'),
        (re.compile(r'```[a-z]*\n?'), ''),
        (re.compile(r'`(.+?)`'), r'\1'),
        (re.compile(r'^#{1,6}\s+', flags=re.MULTILINE), ''),
        (re.compile(r'\[([^\]]+)\]\([^\)]+\)'), r'\1'),
        (re.compile(r'\n{3,}'), '\n\n'),
    )
    test = '**bold** and *italic* and [link](http://example.com)'
    for pattern, replacement in _MD_STRIP_PATTERNS:
        test = pattern.sub(replacement, test)
    assert test == 'bold and italic and link'

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Code

  • I've read the Contributing Guide
  • My commit messages follow Conventional Commits
  • I've searched for existing PRs to ensure this isn't a duplicate
  • My PR contains only changes related to this optimization
  • Syntax validation passes
  • Patterns tested for correctness

Documentation & Housekeeping

  • N/A - no documentation changes needed (behavior unchanged)
  • N/A - no config changes
  • N/A - no architecture changes
  • N/A - no tool schema changes

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Pull request overview

This PR refactors markdown-stripping logic used by TTS and SMS paths to precompile regex patterns at module import time, avoiding repeated regex compilation on each call.

Changes:

  • Precompiled markdown-stripping regex patterns into module-level tuples and applied them in loops (CLI voice TTS, TTS tool, SMS sending).
  • Minor formatting/line-wrapping changes around imports, subprocess calls, and JSON responses.

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File Description
tools/tts_tool.py Precompiles markdown stripping regexes for streaming TTS and applies them via a loop.
tools/send_message_tool.py Precompiles markdown stripping regexes for SMS sending and refactors formatting; adjusts media extension constants.
cli.py Precompiles markdown stripping regexes for voice-mode TTS and applies them via a loop; adds re import.

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_IMAGE_EXTS = {".jpg", ".jpeg", ".png", ".webp", ".gif"}
_VIDEO_EXTS = {".mp4", ".mov", ".avi", ".mkv", ".3gp"}
_AUDIO_EXTS = {".ogg", ".opus", ".mp3", ".wav", ".m4a"}
_AUDIO_EXTS = {".ogg", ".opus", ".mp3", "wav", "m4a"}

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_AUDIO_EXTS now contains "wav" and "m4a" without leading dots, but ext values come from os.path.splitext(...)[1] (e.g., ".wav"). This will prevent WAV/M4A media from being detected as audio. Update the set to use the dotted extensions (".wav", ".m4a").

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_AUDIO_EXTS = {".ogg", ".opus", ".mp3", "wav", "m4a"}
_AUDIO_EXTS = {".ogg", ".opus", ".mp3", ".wav", ".m4a"}

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_MD_STRIP_PATTERNS = (
(re.compile(r"\*\*(.+?)\*\*"), r"\1"),
(re.compile(r"\*(.+?)\*"), r"\1"),
(re.compile(r"__(.+?)__"), r"\1"),
(re.compile(r"_(.+?)_"), r"\1"),

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The new precompiled markdown patterns for SMS stripping no longer use DOTALL for bold/italic/underscore patterns. Previously these substitutions used flags=re.DOTALL, so formatting that spans newlines (e.g., "a\nb") would be stripped; now it will not. If behavior is intended to remain unchanged, compile the relevant patterns with re.DOTALL (or adjust them to match across newlines, e.g., using [\s\S]).

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Thanks for the PR @NotUnHackable! We appreciate the thought behind pre-compiling the regex patterns.

After review, we're going to pass on this one for a couple of reasons:

  1. Python's re module maintains an internal LRU cache (512 entries) for compiled patterns, so re.sub() with the same pattern string doesn't actually recompile from scratch on each call — the performance gain here would be negligible in practice.

  2. The commits include a lot of formatting/style changes (import restructuring, quote style changes) alongside the regex work, which makes the diff much larger than the substantive change and harder to review safely — especially in cli.py which is a critical ~7400 line file.

If you'd like to contribute in the future, keeping PRs focused on a single change with minimal formatting noise makes review much smoother. Thanks again for taking the time!

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Bartok9 added a commit to Bartok9/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Apr 23, 2026
…poisoning (v2, rebased)

Malformed tool calls (empty function name, non-JSON arguments) can poison
a session's history and cause repeated HTTP 400 errors on every subsequent
turn when the broken history is replayed to strict providers.

Adds `_is_valid_tool_call()` static method called in the tool-call
persistence loop. Invalid tool calls are skipped with a warning log and
never written to session history.

Fixes NousResearch#4714
Bartok9 added a commit to Bartok9/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request May 8, 2026
…poisoning (v2, rebased)

Malformed tool calls (empty function name, non-JSON arguments) can poison
a session's history and cause repeated HTTP 400 errors on every subsequent
turn when the broken history is replayed to strict providers.

Adds `_is_valid_tool_call()` static method called in the tool-call
persistence loop. Invalid tool calls are skipped with a warning log and
never written to session history.

Fixes NousResearch#4714
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