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9abee46990 feat(langgraph): DeltaChannel snapshot_frequency — bounded read depth with write-count snapshotting (#7634)
## Summary

Builds on #7586. Adds `snapshot_frequency: int | None` to
`DeltaChannel`, letting users trade storage for bounded read depth. Also
promotes `channels/_delta.py` from private to public
(`channels/delta.py`).

### How it works

Every Nth **pregel step**, `create_checkpoint` writes a `_DeltaSnapshot`
blob instead of `DELTA_SENTINEL`. The ancestor walk in
`_get_channel_writes_history` terminates at the snapshot rather than
walking the full chain, bounding replay to at most N steps.

Snapshots are **eager**: fired even on steps where the channel had no
write (via a `get_next_version` version bump), so the depth bound holds
unconditionally — no risk of the cadence drifting if a channel happens
to be silent at a snapshot step.

### Storage formula

| Mode | Blob storage | Read depth |
|------|-------------|------------|
| `snapshot_frequency=None` (pure delta) | O(N) — sentinels only | O(N)
steps |
| `snapshot_frequency=K` | O(N²/K) — periodic snapshots of growing size
| O(K) steps |
| add_messages / BinOp | O(N²) — full blob every step | O(1) |

At N turns with ~400 char/msg messages, total snapshot storage ≈ N²/(2K)
× avg_msg_size, since each snapshot blob grows linearly with accumulated
messages.

### Key design decisions

- **Step-based**: `snapshot_frequency=K` means "snapshot every K pregel
steps." `create_checkpoint` has the step number; the channel itself
doesn't need to track writes.
- **Eager**: version-bumped via `get_next_version` even on non-write
steps so `put()` always stores the blob.
- **`_DeltaSnapshot` NamedTuple + msgpack ext type**
(`EXT_DELTA_SNAPSHOT = 7`): serde type tag dispatches in
`from_checkpoint` — no dict key inspection, no collision risk.
- **`from_checkpoint` semantics**: `_DeltaSnapshot` → restore value
directly (no replay needed); `DELTA_SENTINEL` / `MISSING` → replay from
ancestor writes; plain value → pre-migration BinOp blob.
- **InMemorySaver and PostgresSaver updated**:
`_get_channel_writes_history` collects the snapshot ancestor's
pending_writes before terminating (they encode the *next* step's
transition, unlike pre-delta migration blobs which subsume their own
writes).
- **`snapshot_frequency=None`** is the pure-delta default (replaces
`math.inf`).

### Benchmark results (InMemory, ~400 char/msg)

**Storage**

| turns | ctx | freq=1 | freq=5 | freq=10 | freq=50 | freq=inf |
|------:|----:|-------:|-------:|--------:|--------:|---------:|
| 50 | ~10K tok | 5.9 MB | 1.2 MB | 601.3 KB | 119.8 KB | 29.5 KB |
| 100 | ~20K tok | 23.7 MB | 4.8 MB | 2.4 MB | 475.8 KB | 58.4 KB |
| 200 | ~40K tok | 94.6 MB | 19.0 MB | 9.5 MB | 1.9 MB | 116.4 KB |
| 500 | ~100K tok | 591.5 MB | 118.4 MB | 59.2 MB | 11.8 MB | 290.3 KB |

**Read latency** (avg of 5 `get_state` calls)

| turns | ctx | freq=1 | freq=5 | freq=10 | freq=50 | freq=inf |
|------:|----:|-------:|-------:|--------:|--------:|---------:|
| 50 | ~10K tok | 0.4ms | 0.4ms | 0.7ms | 0.9ms | 1.8ms |
| 100 | ~20K tok | 0.7ms | 0.9ms | 1.0ms | 1.7ms | 5.7ms |
| 200 | ~40K tok | 1.5ms | 1.7ms | 4.5ms | 3.7ms | 20.1ms |
| 500 | ~100K tok | 3.6ms | 4.2ms | 4.4ms | 9.0ms | 110.3ms |

**Per-invoke write latency**

| turns | ctx | freq=1 | freq=5 | freq=10 | freq=50 | freq=inf |
|------:|----:|-------:|-------:|--------:|--------:|---------:|
| 50 | ~10K tok | 1.5ms | 1.1ms | 1.1ms | 1.3ms | 1.7ms |
| 100 | ~20K tok | 2.5ms | 1.6ms | 1.5ms | 1.7ms | 3.3ms |
| 200 | ~40K tok | 3.4ms | 2.3ms | 2.2ms | 2.5ms | 8.3ms |
| 500 | ~100K tok | 6.2ms | 4.2ms | 3.6ms | 4.1ms | 39.2ms |

## Test plan

- [x] `make format` / `make lint` clean across `langgraph`,
`checkpoint`, `checkpoint-postgres`
- [x] `tests/test_channels.py` — 37 passing including step-based and
eager-snapshot tests
- [x] `tests/test_delta_channel_migration.py` — all passing
- [x] Full suite: 1387 passing, 6 pre-existing failures unrelated to
this branch

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-28 16:42:48 -04:00
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