Compaction regularly throwing away recent work, uses prior work as starting point

Open 💬 2 comments Opened Jun 1, 2026 by danthegoodman1
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

Version 26.527.60818 (3437)

What subscription do you have?

Pro

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 24.6.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

I am frequently running into this scenario:

  • User: do X
  • Codex: (does X)
  • User: do Y
  • Codex: ok I will do Y
  • (compaction)
  • Codex: ok I will do X

Probably since a few days ago, this has happened nearly every time it's compacted when starting new work (I can't recall a time it did not do this)

Example I just hit:

<img width="535" height="867" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/12a4352e-ae44-459f-ab7a-6f589b9d8370" />

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Complete a task, then ask to complete a new task just before compaction.

What is the expected behavior?

It does not lose track of the current work and revert to prior work it already did

Additional information

_No response_

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 2 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #25563
  • #24366
  • #24876

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danthegoodman1 · 2 months ago

Not duplicates