Manual compacting makes context larger
Open 💬 1 comment Opened Aug 25, 2026 by wanton7
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What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
26.818.61809
What subscription do you have?
Plus
What platform is your computer?
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64
What issue are you seeing?
I had long chat and it was repeatedly compacting like five times in a row at least. Then decided to manually compact
This was before compacting
Context:
6% left (244,138 used / 258K)
After using /compact
Context:
0% left (258,400 used / 258K)
So compacting actually made context larger.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Run model Luna 5.6 on Max reasoning. Long enough context and I started getting repeated compacts. Then tried to manually trigger compact and context got larger after.
What is the expected behavior?
Context would actually compact to smaller size.
Additional information
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