Rank, 14 days: 135 on the Codex sheet
26 people reported
All time, since Sep 28, including 18 thumbs-up on GitHub.
Premature auto-compaction
“Historical reasoning already represented in server input usage is estimated again by the client, inflating the counter used for auto-compaction.”
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/13206/file Follow it to file my report. Show me the text before you send.
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Auto-compaction triggers early by double-counting historical reasoning. Client adds an estimate of prior encrypted reasoning on top of server-reported usage, so compaction starts while the indicator shows about 51% remaining.
Is this your bug?
File my report- Where
- context compaction
- Versions
- 0.159.2 to 0.166.0
- Platforms
- macOS, Windows
- How bad
- Breaks a normal workflow.
Not quite your bug?
- Early automatic context compaction2 people
- Weekly usage drains fast4 people
- Usage limits drain too fast4 people
Original reports8, newest first
- Windows desktop: premature compaction after resume; current production build lacks #57839On GitHub#59081
- Auto-compaction counts retained encrypted reasoning twice: internal counter = displayed + ~0.19x reasoning blob bytes (0.163.0)On GitHub#55928
- Premature auto-compaction in CodexOn the forum#1408178
- Auto-compaction while IDE shows 51% context remaining: historical reasoning estimate differs from displayed usageOn GitHub#55126
- Native Lite client double-counts old reasoning when x-reasoning-included is absent (54% compaction)On GitHub#53913
- Historical reasoning double-counted in 0.162.0-alpha.17.2, causing premature auto-compactionOn GitHub#53309
- Repeated early compaction across GPT-6.1 Sol and Astra: internal token counts exceed reported usageOn GitHub#49961
- Automatic compaction double-counts prior reasoning against reported token usage and triggers unnecessary compactionOn GitHub#49026