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Compression locking, forking, and concurrency bugs

Cluster 63129. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix attempted, not merged.

The short answer

0open issues
0open PRs
3items grouped
Known?
Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 2 PRs closed without merging; see the attempts below.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern bugs and fixes around concurrent context compression: lock failure modes (fail-open vs. fail-closed), session forking from concurrent or cross-turn compression, and interrupt handling during in-flight compression. Several test reliability issues related to these race conditions are also included.

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No open issues.

Open PRs0

No open pull requests.

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: closed without comment 1 · done elsewhere 1

  • #63132 fix(agent): fail closed on unexpected compression-lock acquisition errors · closed without comment
  • #64183 fix(compression): fail CLOSED on transient lock errors, OPEN on structural absence (#63129) · done elsewhere → 2627933
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#63129[Bug]: Compression lock fails OPEN on any acquisition error — concurrent compression can fork the session
How this cluster was grouped
  • 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(structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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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