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Observation masking and two-phase context compression proposals

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No fix has been merged to main. 3 PRs closed without merging; see the attempts below.
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These members propose reducing token usage in conversation history by masking or pruning older tool outputs before or instead of full context compaction. The ideas appear across multiple feature requests and implementation attempts addressing the same core mechanism.

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3 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1 · partial fix 1 · superseded by another PR 1

  • #588 feat(agent): two-phase context compression — tool pruning + structured compaction · done elsewhere → #1231
  • #2093 feat(context): add observation masking to reduce token usage · partial fix
  • #2245 feat(context): observation masking — zero-cost context reduction for older tool outputs · superseded by another PR → #2323
Closed issues · 2
  • Closed#513Feature: Two-Phase Context Management — Prune Tool Outputs Before Full Compaction (inspired by Kilocode)
  • Closed#2046[Feature]: Observation masking for older turns: reduce conversation history tokens without LLM summarization
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  • Pairwise link density 0.34: 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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