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Filter irrelevant system-prompt injections from opencode session title generation to save tokens.

Why

Every new opencode session triggers a background LLM call that generates a short title. The call uses opencode's built-in title agent, whose prompt is a fixed ~2KB string ending in </examples>:

You are a title generator. You output ONLY a thread title. Nothing else.
...

Other plugins (@cortexkit/opencode-magic-context, oh-my-opencode-slim, project AGENTS.md, skill guidance, MCP instructions, ...) hook experimental.chat.system.transform and append project memory, session history, skill listings, and other context to every LLM call - including title generation. That context is useless for producing a 50-character title and wastes thousands of tokens on every new session.

This plugin detects title-generation calls and strips the system prompt back to just PROMPT_TITLE, so the small model only sees what it actually needs.

How it works

The plugin hooks experimental.chat.system.transform:

1. Detection: When any system string contains the full sentence "You are a title generator. You output ONLY a thread title. Nothing else." (the first line of opencode's PROMPT_TITLE), the hook identifies this as a title-generation call. The full sentence is required — shorter markers like "You are a title generator" match cross-references in other agents' system prompts and cause false positives.

2. Extraction: The hook extracts the pure PROMPT_TITLE from the matched system entry — everything from TITLE_MARKER to </examples> (inclusive). Content prepended by other plugins (orchestrator prompts, project memory, etc.) is discarded.

3. Mutation: The system array is replaced in-place with [pureTitle] (mutation-mode hook).

4. Toast: Token savings are calculated immediately (originalTokens - filteredTokens) and a TUI toast is shown instantly — no polling, no waiting for the title to be generated.

Detection is content-based because experimental.chat.system.transform receives { sessionID, model } (no agent name). The title agent's prompt is a constant in opencode core (packages/core/src/plugin/agent.ts), so the marker is stable.

Note: experimental.chat.messages.transform is not used. That hook only fires in SessionPrompt.run and SessionCompaction.process, not in LLM.run / ensureTitle — so it never executes for title-generation calls.

Install

As a published package

// ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json
{
  "plugin": [
    "@lifangjin/opencode-session-title-plugin@latest"
  ]
}

With options

{
  "plugin": [
    ["@lifangjin/opencode-session-title-plugin@latest", { "debug": true }]
  ]
}

From source (local dev)

{
  "plugin": [
    ["/path/to/opencode-session-title-plugin", { "debug": true }]
  ]
}

Build: bun install && bun run build

Options

Option	Type	Default	Description
debug	boolean	false	Write detection/filtering details to ~/.local/share/opencode/log/session-title-filter.log and stderr. Also dumps full system entries to timestamped .txt files (max 10 retained).
enabled	boolean	true	Master switch. Set false to detect-only (no mutation).
notify	boolean	true	Show a TUI toast immediately after calculating token savings.

Toast

When notify is on (default), the plugin shows a toast immediately after filtering — no polling, no delay:

Session title filter
Title call saved 3018 tokens

Token savings are calculated with gpt-tokenizer: the hook's model field selects the encoding (cl100k_base for GPT-4/3.5, o200k_base for GPT-4o/o1/o3), giving exact counts for OpenAI models and a close approximation (±5%) for other providers. Duplicate toasts from LLM retries are suppressed for 60 seconds per session.

Using a cheaper model for title generation

This plugin only filters the system prompt. Which model opencode calls for title generation is controlled by opencode itself.

opencode's title-agent model priority (source: SessionPrompt.ensureTitle in packages/opencode/src/session/prompt.ts):

1. agent.title.model - set on the built-in title agent via config (highest priority)
2. small_model - global lightweight model config
3. main session model - the fallback (most expensive)

To pin a cheap model for title generation only, add it to opencode.json:

{
  "agent": {
    "title": {
      "model": "aimatespace/sensenova-deepseek-v4-flash"
    }
  }
}

This pairs naturally with this plugin: the cheap model sees only PROMPT_TITLE (plugin strips the rest), so token cost per title drops to near zero.

Verification

Start a new opencode session. With debug: true, check the log file at ~/.local/share/opencode/log/session-title-filter.log:

[session-title-filter] plugin v0.0.4 loaded, enabled: true notify: true
[session-title-filter]   system[0]: len=16973 head="..." tail="...</examples>\n"
[session-title-filter] title call: model: sensenova-deepseek-v4-flash entries: 1 titleIndex: 0 originalText.len: 16973 originalTokens: 3521
[session-title-filter] filtered: pureTitle.len: 2095 pureTitle.head: "You are a title generator. You output ONLY..." filteredTokens: 503 savedTokens: 3018
[session-title-filter] notify: toast shown, savedTokens: 3018

filteredTokens should be around 500 (the size of PROMPT_TITLE). If it is much larger, other plugins are still injecting into the same system string — open an issue with the log output.

Compatibility

• opencode with @opencode-ai/plugin >= 1.4.0
• Hook used: experimental.chat.system.transform only
• The detection marker ("You are a title generator. You output ONLY a thread title. Nothing else.") is tied to opencode's built-in PROMPT_TITLE. If opencode changes the title-agent prompt, update TITLE_MARKER in src/index.ts.

License

MIT