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Compression and compaction bug fixes

Cluster 113646 · agent. Data as of

1 open item. Fix merged in #114918 on 18 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These members address bugs in context compression and compaction, including timed-out preflight compaction behavior, slow local summary streaming, and failures to compress context despite being under the context cap.

Open issues0

No open issues.

Open PRs1

  • PR#113654fix(compression): let slow local summaries finish streaming

Fixes on record

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  • #114918 fix(compression): timed-out preflight compaction sends a fitting request and prune-commits an over-window one instead of failing the turn (#114594, #113646, salvage #114635)

    merged to main

    files: agent/compression_facade.py, agent/context_compressor.py, agent/context_compressor_summary.py, agent/conversation_compression.py, agent/turn_context.py, hermes_cli/config_defaults.py, tests/agent/test_compress_context_progress_timeout.py, tests/agent/test_compression_stall_deterministic_fallback.py, tests/agent/test_compression_timeout_terminal.py, tests/agent/test_preflight_compression_timeout_fail_closed.py, tests/agent/test_preflight_timeout_typed_result.py, tests/agent/test_turn_context.py, tests/tui_gateway/test_compute_host_late_compress_ack.py, website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md

Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#113646[Bug]: Cannot compress context even though desktop client is under context cap.
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Merged PRs
#114918
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18 Sep 2026

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