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Native compaction threshold not following local trigger setting

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #98542 on 30 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These items concern a bug where the native response compaction threshold defaults to 200K instead of deriving from the locally configured trigger value. Two fixes address how the native threshold is calculated or unset relative to the local trigger.

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  • #98542 fix(compression): native Codex compaction no longer fires at the stale 200K default on 900K windows (#88695, salvage #88722)

    merged to main

    files: agent/agent_init.py, agent/native_compaction.py, cli-config.yaml.example, hermes_cli/config_defaults.py, tests/run_agent/test_native_compaction.py, website/docs/developer-guide/context-compression-and-caching.md

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1 · superseded by another PR 1

  • #88717 fix(compaction): unset native threshold follows the local trigger · superseded by another PR → #88722, #88695
  • #88722 fix(compression): derive native threshold from local trigger · merged via another change → #98542
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#88695[Bug]: Native Responses compaction still fires at the 200K default while the Codex OAuth window is now 900K
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30 Aug 2026

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