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Empty summary breaks compression fallback chain

Cluster 108030 · agent. Data as of

2 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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1open issue
1open PR
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Known?
Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 1 PR closed without merging; see the attempts below.
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Still open
1 issue and 1 PR.

These items concern a bug where auxiliary compression accepts an empty summary instead of treating it as a failure, preventing the fallback chain from advancing to the next candidate. The accompanying fixes address this by explicitly failing candidates that return empty summaries.

Open issues1

  • Issue#108030[Bug]: auxiliary compression accepts an empty summary, so the configured fallback chain never advances

Open PRs1

  • PR#108037fix(agent): advance the compression fallback chain when a candidate fails or returns an empty summary

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1

  • #108035 fix(agent): fail the compression candidate when its summary is empty · superseded by another PR → #108037
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  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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