/compcat tool not working properly, Auto-compact works
Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Apr 24, 2026 by Lyellr88 Closed Apr 24, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor)
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What version of Codex CLI is running?
0.124.0
What subscription do you have?
Plus
Which model were you using?
Gpt 5.5
What platform is your computer?
Windows
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
pwsh 7.1
What issue are you seeing?
/compact tool is not working only way compact happens is upon auto-compact. /compact is being sent as a normal message.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019db8d3-cdfd-7253-a046-53266a23a4fa
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
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I'm not able to repro the problem. It looks like you chose not to upload your logs and session data with
/feedback(or they failed to upload for some reason), so I'm not able to use that for a diagnosis.Are you attempting to use
/compactwith an argument like/compact this? That will be sent as a user message rather than being interpreted as a slash command.What behavior are you seeing when you use
/compact?Apologies not that experienced on doing PR's. It started about 2 days ago, and I noticed it, honestly nothing has changed.
I know that Codex doesn't allow text after /compact command like other CLI agents do.
Every time I use /compact now it's sent as a normal message, so I tried updating to see if that would help. Still the same issue, so I uninstalled and reinstalled and still the same issue.
What evidence do you have that
/compactis being sent as a normal message?All set, it's working now. Must of it had been some kind of bug yesterday, so as of now I have no evidence and it's operating normally.