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Context compression state pollution from interrupted passes

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1 open item. Fix merged in #70246 on 23 Jul 2026. Check it covers your case.

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1open issue
0open PRs
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Known?
Yes. 6 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
Fix event
A fix was merged to main in PR #70246. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this partially resolved, deciding PR #70246. That is separate from the fix event.
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1 issue and 0 PRs.

The members all concern context compression behaving incorrectly when a pass is interrupted, with titles describing state or display-token seed pollution, anti-thrashing counts, and amplified costs. Several are fixes or follow-ups to earlier items (#54805, #45535), but the titles alone do not show the outcome of any of them.

Open issues1

  • Issue#45535Context Compression Amplification Bug — Interruption Pollution Causes Double Costs

Open PRs0

No open pull requests.

Fixes on record

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  • #70246 fix(compression): roll back interrupted preflight display-token seed (salvage of #54805)

    merged to main

    files: agent/context_compressor.py, agent/conversation_loop.py, agent/turn_context.py, agent/turn_finalizer.py, tests/run_agent/test_413_compression.py

3 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1 · partial fix 1 · superseded by another PR 1

  • #45539 Fix compression amplification from interruption pollution · partial fix → #45535
  • #54799 fix(context_compression): exclude interrupted passes from anti-thrashing · superseded by another PR → 2c6e587, 7f94857
  • #54805 fix(context_compression): roll back interrupted preflight state pollution · merged via another change → #70246
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#54776Context Compression Amplification Bug — Interruption Pollution (#45535 follow-up)
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  • Pairwise link density 0.36: 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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Merged PRs
#70246
Closed issues
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3 PRs closed without merging
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23 Jul 2026

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