Compact finishes and only compacts to 25% left
Open 💬 0 comments Opened Mar 7, 2026 by bigshiny90
What version of Codex CLI is running?
0.111.0
What subscription do you have?
pro
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.4 high
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.2.0 arm64 arm
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
Ghostty
What issue are you seeing?
using Compact or autocompaction at 17% context left, only compact to 25% context left.
same in Codex app.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
pretty self-obvious
What is the expected behavior?
actually compact so that we have freed up our context window
Additional information
might be related to #13946 - specifically Finding 2: Mid-turn compaction infinite loop