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Max-iteration nudge misclassified as human intent

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #81608. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #81608. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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A bug where the max-iteration nudge message was incorrectly treated as human intent during context compaction, with multiple fix attempts addressing how it should be marked as synthetic.

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  • #81608 fix(agent): treat max-iteration nudge as synthetic during compaction (salvage #78594)

    merged to main

    files: agent/chat_completion_helpers.py, agent/context_compressor.py, tests/agent/test_context_compressor_zero_user_provenance.py

3 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 2 · duplicate 1

  • #78594 fix(agent): treat max-iteration nudge as synthetic during compaction (#78580) · merged via another change → #81608, #81103
  • #78955 fix(context-compressor): max-iteration nudge no longer treated as human intent · duplicate → #78594
  • #81103 fix(compression): mark max-iteration nudge as synthetic (#78580) · merged via another change → #78580, #78594, #81608
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#78580[Bug]: max-iteration runtime nudge is treated as human intent during context compaction
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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(structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 0.40: 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
#81608
Closed issues
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3 PRs closed without merging
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8 Aug 2026

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