Compaction quietly rewrote my session and I only noticed from the behavior change
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Hit this again recently and finally sat down to reason through it. Long session, agent suddenly stops honoring a decision we'd settled hours earlier. Scrolled up: the agreement is right there in my chat history. But my chat history isn't what the model reads. Somewhere mid-session, compaction kicke…
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- 2026-09-02 01:15 · r/PromptEngineering
Compaction quietly rewrote my session and I only noticed from the behavior change