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Background-process notifications leaking into unintended contexts

Cluster 83249 · agent. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #85923 on 14 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These members address bugs where background-process completion notifications incorrectly leak into compaction auto-focus and compression flows. Fixes involve filtering, redaction, overflow handling, and mode-gating to prevent unintended side effects.

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  • #85923 fix(gateway,tools): salvage background-notification cluster — off-mode gate, redaction, watch_overflow, compression guard

    merged to main

    files: agent/context_compressor.py, contributors/emails/[redacted:email], contributors/emails/[email protected], contributors/emails/[redacted:email], gateway/run.py, tests/agent/test_context_compressor_zero_user_provenance.py, tests/gateway/test_background_process_notifications.py, tests/tools/test_process_registry.py, tests/tools/test_watch_patterns.py, tools/process_registry.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1

  • #83295 fix(compression): preserve active tasks through background process completions · done elsewhere → #85923
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#83249[Bug]: Background-process completion notifications leak into compaction auto-focus (synthetic-turn filter sibling of #82445)
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  • 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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1 PR closed without merging
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14 Aug 2026

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