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Context compaction: summaries that keep the kernel alive
Compaction summarizes older messages when context nears a threshold, keeping recent history and the persistent kernel state available. It is not a completion signal: goals, heartbeats, autonomous continuations, and running children continue. Overflow compaction can retry an oversized prompt after summarization.
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Threshold compaction
Compaction summarizes older messages when context nears a threshold, keeping recent history and the persistent kernel state available. It is not a completion signal: goals, heartbeats, autonomous continuations, and running children continue. Overflow compaction can retry an oversized prompt after summarization.
- S012 supports the route's current claim set.
- S010 supports the route's current claim set.
- S008 supports the route's current claim set.
Kernel persistence
Compaction summarizes older messages when context nears a threshold, keeping recent history and the persistent kernel state available. It is not a completion signal: goals, heartbeats, autonomous continuations, and running children continue. Overflow compaction can retry an oversized prompt after summarization.
- S012 supports the route's current claim set.
- S010 supports the route's current claim set.
- S008 supports the route's current claim set.
Overflow retry
Compaction summarizes older messages when context nears a threshold, keeping recent history and the persistent kernel state available. It is not a completion signal: goals, heartbeats, autonomous continuations, and running children continue. Overflow compaction can retry an oversized prompt after summarization.
- S012 supports the route's current claim set.
- S010 supports the route's current claim set.
- S008 supports the route's current claim set.
Transcript summaries
Compaction summarizes older messages when context nears a threshold, keeping recent history and the persistent kernel state available. It is not a completion signal: goals, heartbeats, autonomous continuations, and running children continue. Overflow compaction can retry an oversized prompt after summarization.
- S012 supports the route's current claim set.
- S010 supports the route's current claim set.
- S008 supports the route's current claim set.
What this does not mean
This feature or concept does not imply a sandbox, a guarantee of success, or a claim that the harness is superior in every scenario. It only means the documented behavior exists in v0.7.1.