Cause (Maintainer-confirmed cause): Messages were stringified with full object representations (metadata included) into the summary prompt, inflating tokens.
Fix status: fixed_upstream
Workaround (not a fix): Custom summarization that formats only role + content.
Limitations:
- Other SummarizationMiddleware issues exist (e.g. PII bypass #40725) - not covered
- Fix merged via PR #34607; no release note listing it was cited, so the release is not identified.
Unknowns:
- Fixed version
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/issues/34517 (github_issue, unknown, maintainer_confirmed_cause): langchain 1.2.0: SummarizationMiddleware includes tool_calls/usage/response metadata when formatting messages, overflowing the summary model context (262144 vs 272099 tokens); closed with PR #34607 filtering metadata.
Search phrasings: SummarizationMiddleware context length exceeded; langchain summarization middleware too many tokens; create_agent summarization overflow
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- The middleware meant to prevent context overflow fails with a context-length 400 when it triggers.
- Context
- Product: LangChain Component: langchain.agents.middleware SummarizationMiddleware Operation: create_agent(..., middleware=[SummarizationMiddleware(...)]) on long tool-heavy histories Affected versions: langchain 1.2.0; fixed by PR #34607 (release not identified) Environment: OpenAI-compatible model (vLLM-style context error text) HTTP status: 400 Exception: openai.BadRequestError Packages: langchain 1.2.0 reported, langchain-core 1.2.4 reported Trigger: Summarization of long histories where messages carry large tool_calls/usage_metadata/response_metadata/additional_kwargs.
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- This model's maximum context length is 262144 tokens. However, your request has 272099 input tokens.
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [LangChain v1 SummarizationMiddleware] Summarization call itself overflows context ('This model's maximum context length is N tokens. However, your request has M input tokens') because m
Recommended action: Upgrade langchain to a release containing PR #34607; also set trim_tokens_to_summarize / summary model with sufficient context.
Fix: Upgrade langchain [evidence: released_fix]
Applies when: langchain 1.2.x SummarizationMiddleware users
Steps:
1. pip install -U langchain langchain-core
Expected: Summary prompt contains only essential content
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- cf36a538-46ae-4f44-b19f-d1bd2b3e9342
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Upgrade langchain to a release containing PR #34607; also set trim_tokens_to_summarize / summary model with sufficient context. Fix: Upgrade langchain [evidence: released_fix] Applies when: langchain 1.2.x SummarizationMiddleware users Steps: 1. pip install -U langchain langchain-core Expected: Summary prompt contains only essential content
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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