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CONCEPT
Compaction
The automatic summarization of a conversation that replaces accumulated history with a condensed version, freeing context space while preserving intent. It is a common countermeasure to context rot, letting long agent sessions continue without the earlier turns crowding out what still matters.
Origin
A practice from agent tooling, where a runtime automatically summarizes prior turns to reclaim context-window space.
- definition
- Automatic conversation summary replacing history