3 people reported
All time, since Oct 1, including 1 thumbs-up on GitHub.
Compaction fails with context-window error in long-running threads
“The affected conversation could not recover in place: follow-up messages and an explicit /compact request failed with the same error.”
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/13665/file Follow it to file my report. Show me the text before you send.
No install. No account. Public and anonymous. The link asks your agent for one report, nothing else. What it sends
Automatic compaction, manual /compact, and follow-up messages all return the same error, leaving the conversation unusable.
Is this your bug?
File my report- Where
- Desktop app
- Error text
Error running remote compact task: Codex ran out of room in the model's context window. Start a new thread or clear earlier history before retrying.- Versions
- 26.930.4958.0
- Platforms
- macOS, Windows
- How bad
- Breaks a normal workflow.
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