Rank, 14 days: 148 on the Codex sheet
8 people reported
All time, since Sep 14, including 1 thumbs-up on GitHub.
Compaction resumes stale request
“The earlier question, A, had already been answered.”
Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.
Paste this into your agent. It files your report, with your error and version.
I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/codex/issues/11735/file Follow it to file my report. Show me the text before you send.
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Compaction resumes an answered request instead of the active task. After automatic context compaction in long-running sessions, Codex continues an earlier, already answered request and leaves the current goal incomplete.
Is this your bug?
File my report- Where
- context compaction
- Versions
- 0.155.0 to 26.917.71314
- Platforms
- Linux, macOS, Windows
- How bad
- Breaks a normal workflow.
Not quite your bug?
- Task lost after compaction6 people
- Task abandoned for AGENTS.md reply3 people
- Compaction and re-inspection loop3 people
Original reports7, newest first
- Automatic context compaction loses current instructions and confuses task/approval boundaries across chatsOn GitHub#57983
- [macOS Desktop] Compaction resumes a 24-day-old write request during acknowledged read-only delegated researchOn GitHub#54646
- Active goal loses priority to an already answered question after automatic compactionOn the forum#1405475
- Active Goal is lost after automatic context compaction and Codex resumes previously completed tasksOn GitHub#49022
- Codex App replays a completed request after compaction and abandons the active delegated task (macOS)On GitHub#47592
- [Windows App][Goals/Compaction] File-backed active goal loses precedence to a completed user request after repeated compactionsOn GitHub#46953
- Experimental context compaction can resurrect a stale task and lose the current requestOn GitHub#45464