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Without compacting, context window increased from 52% to 71% #6085

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@Meowzz95

What version of Codex is running?

codex-cli 0.53.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

gpt-5-codex high

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.0.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

Without compacting, context window increased from 52% to 71%
See the feedback comment, I wrote it there.

The model might have lost important context.

Or maybe this is just a counter error?

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019a3fd7-63de-7931-9f24-c9a1f5839a91

What is the expected behavior?

No response

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  1. added
    contextIssues related to context management (including compaction)
    and removed
    model-behaviorIssues related to behaviors exhibited by the model
    on Nov 1, 2025
  2. etraut-openai commented on Jan 10, 2026

    @etraut-openai
    Contributor

    This bug is stale at this point. There are a few other newer bugs related to this, so I'm going to close this one.

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