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Length continuation behavior when prompt fills context window

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #106571 on 9 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #106571. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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These issues and PRs concern a specific edge case where length-continuation retries worsen outcomes when the prompt itself has consumed the full context window. The work involves detecting this condition and aborting continuation attempts accordingly.

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  • #106571 Length continuation stops when the prompt filled the context window (#106120, salvage #106223 #106233)

    merged to main

    files: agent/turn_truncation.py, contributors/emails/[email protected], contributors/emails/[email protected], tests/agent/test_length_continuation_window_headroom.py

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1 · superseded by another PR 1

  • #106223 fix(agent): abort length-continuation when the prompt filled the context window · superseded by another PR → #106571
  • #106233 fix(agent): abort length continuation only on proven context-window exhaustion · done elsewhere → 68bc4b2, #106571
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#106120Length continuation retries make the prompt LONGER when the prompt is what filled the window — 4 attempts, each worse than the last
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9 Sep 2026

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