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In-place compaction commit and marker stamping fixes

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #98997 on 31 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These items address bugs in the in-place compaction path where the persisted marker was not stamped after commit, causing transcript re-INSERTs, live-set token regrowth, and false triggering of local compression in native-Codex sessions.

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  • #98543 fix(compression): compacted native-Codex sessions no longer false-trigger 600s local compression mid-turn (#96995, #97602, salvage #97006)

    merged to main

    files: agent/conversation_loop.py, agent/turn_context.py, tests/agent/test_native_preflight_estimate.py

  • #98997 fix(compression): in-place compaction commits no longer re-INSERT the transcript (#98450)

    merged to main

    files: agent/context_compressor.py, agent/conversation_compression.py, tests/run_agent/test_in_place_persist_marker_98450.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1

  • #98458 fix(compression): stamp _DB_PERSISTED_MARKER after in-place batch commit · merged via another change → 1f2bd9e, #98997, #97006, #98543
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#98450fix(compression): in-place compaction commit never stamps _DB_PERSISTED_MARKER — post-compaction transcript re-INSERTs, live set regrows ~58K → ~512K tokens
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1 PR closed without merging
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31 Aug 2026

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