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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions .jules/bolt.md
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## 2026-02-20 - [Optimized Telemetry Redaction and Sanitization]
**Learning:** Sequential `re.sub` calls are faster than combined regex callbacks for small pattern sets, but the biggest performance win comes from early-exit fast-paths (e.g., checking for `\x1b` or secret keywords) and proper ordering of truncation vs. redaction for large strings.
**Action:** Always implement fast-path guards for expensive string processing and ensure that heavy operations (like regex) are performed on the smallest possible data subset (e.g., after truncation).

## 2024-05-12 - [Optimized Validation Pipeline]
**Learning:** Keyword-based fast-path checks for secret detection yield ~6.5x speedup for clean text by skipping regex engine overhead. Additionally, "".join(text.split()) is consistently faster than re.sub(r"\s+", "", text) for whitespace removal in Python.
**Action:** Always implement string-based early-exit guards for heavy regex operations in data-intensive loops.
4 changes: 0 additions & 4 deletions heidi_engine/telemetry.py
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Expand Up @@ -732,10 +732,6 @@ def get_state(run_id: Optional[str] = None) -> Dict[str, Any]:
"usage": get_default_usage(),
}

# BOLT OPTIMIZATION: Check thread-safe state cache
cached = _state_cache.get(target_run_id, state_file)
if cached:
return cached

try:
with open(state_file) as f:
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22 changes: 18 additions & 4 deletions scripts/02_validate_clean.py
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(r'(?i)pwd\s*[:=]\s*["\'][^"\']{8,}["\']', "password"),
]

# BOLT OPTIMIZATION: Pre-compile regex patterns for performance
_COMPILED_SECRET_PATTERNS = [(re.compile(p), t) for p, t in SECRET_PATTERNS]

# BOLT OPTIMIZATION: Fast-path indicators to skip expensive regex on clean text
_SECRET_INDICATORS = [
"api", "key", "token", "secret", "bearer", "akia", "private key", "openssh",
"mongodb", "postgres", "mysql", "redis", "ghp_", "glpat-", "sk-", "password", "pwd"
]
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security-high high

The current fast-path indicators list is missing a check for the high_entropy pattern (defined at line 82), which does not use keywords. This creates a security regression where long unlabeled secrets (like raw base64 tokens) will be skipped by the validation pipeline if they don't happen to be near a keyword like 'api' or 'key'. Additionally, using a list of strings for any() checks in a loop is less efficient than a single pre-compiled regex.

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# BOLT OPTIMIZATION: Fast-path indicators to skip expensive regex on clean text
_SECRET_INDICATORS = [
"api", "key", "token", "secret", "bearer", "akia", "private key", "openssh",
"mongodb", "postgres", "mysql", "redis", "ghp_", "glpat-", "sk-", "password", "pwd"
]
# BOLT OPTIMIZATION: Fast-path regex to skip expensive checks on clean text
_SECRET_INDICATORS_RE = re.compile(
r"api|key|token|secret|bearer|akia|private\s+key|openssh|mongodb|postgres|mysql|redis|ghp_|glpat-|sk-|password|pwd|[a-zA-Z0-9_+/]{40,}",
re.IGNORECASE
)


# Fields to check for secrets
# TUNABLE: Add/remove fields based on your data structure
SECRET_CHECK_FIELDS = ["instruction", "input", "output", "response", "completion"]
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continue

text = str(sample[field])
lower_text = text.lower()

# BOLT OPTIMIZATION: Fast-path check to skip regex if no indicators found
if not any(indicator in lower_text for indicator in _SECRET_INDICATORS):
continue
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medium

Using text.lower() and any() inside a loop over dataset fields is suboptimal as it creates string copies and performs multiple substring searches in Python. Replacing this with a single search() call on a pre-compiled case-insensitive regex is significantly faster and more memory-efficient.

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lower_text = text.lower()
# BOLT OPTIMIZATION: Fast-path check to skip regex if no indicators found
if not any(indicator in lower_text for indicator in _SECRET_INDICATORS):
continue
# BOLT OPTIMIZATION: Fast-path check to skip regex if no indicators found
if not _SECRET_INDICATORS_RE.search(text):
continue


for pattern, secret_type in SECRET_PATTERNS:
if re.search(pattern, text):
for pattern, secret_type in _COMPILED_SECRET_PATTERNS:
if pattern.search(text):
found_secrets.append(f"{field}:{secret_type}")

return len(found_secrets) > 0, found_secrets
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- n=5 is a good balance for code data
"""
text = (sample.get("instruction", "") + sample.get("output", "")).lower()
# Remove whitespace for more robust matching
text = re.sub(r"\s+", "", text)
# BOLT OPTIMIZATION: Faster whitespace removal using split/join
text = "".join(text.split())

if len(text) < n:
return text
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