fix: avoid double-counting context token overhead - #279
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Summary
Why
LiteLLM token counts for separately counted message groups are not additive because each call includes request-level framing. The previous implementation added independently counted system and history values and measured tools against a synthetic empty message, so context utilization could be overestimated.
With LiteLLM 1.80.9, the regression fixture for
gpt-4o-miniis counted as 72 tokens for the complete request. The previous calculation returned 79. This change returns 72 and keeps the breakdown additive.The regression test compares
count_context()against LiteLLM's complete-request count without hard-coding those values.Validation
git diff --checkpassed.