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Reform the compaction blueprint so a runaway turn survives and the design
stops drifting across review rounds:
- Drop in-flight-turn protection ("layer 2"). Retention is a uniform tail→head
whole-unit walk; the only structural guard is step-alignment. A single turn
that alone exceeds the window now compacts its own early closed steps instead
of being retained verbatim (the failure mode that motivated this).
- Move auto-compaction off the agent/request waterfall onto a new awaited
agent/pre-request loop seam, fired before history derivation. Compaction
mutates the surface; the loop derives once from the result — no double-derive,
and a listener structurally cannot act on not-yet-derived messages.
- Tighten compactIfNeeded to required (session, system, model, signal).
- Enforce a single-pass convergence invariant in resolveConfig: reject configs
where summarizationMaxTokens + retainTokens exceeds the threshold, so a
compaction can never immediately re-trigger.
- Document the crash vs recoverable failure taxonomy; core session repair stays
compaction-agnostic (a log-only orphaned compact/start is inert).
- Wire dsh-compact-basic into examples/coding-agent and add a with-key
compaction e2e (compaction's first real-world exercise + runaway net).
- Rewrite the RFC to encode the blueprint and move it to implemented/.
The runaway-turn snapshot is a named deferred follow-up: dsh-llm-replay cannot
yet serve the interleaved summarization model call.
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# compact/ — compaction capability family
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A three-package capability seam (see [capability seams](../../docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md)): an abstract compaction interface, a backend that summarizes, and the model-facing tool that consumes it. The interface and a first backend (`compact-basic/`) exist; the consumer tool is deferred. All **product** packages.
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| `compact/` | Abstract compaction seam (interface + `compact/*` events + `CompactionResult`) | `ctx.compact` |
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| `compact-basic/` | A backend: char/4 estimation + token-budget retention + `llm.stream()` summarization | (registers `ctx.compact`) |
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| `tool-compact/` (deferred) | Model-facing `/compact` tool over `ctx.compact` | (registers on `ctx.tools`) |
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The interface lives at `compact/compact/`, the backend at `compact/compact-basic/`. Unlike the bash seam, it depends on `dsh-session` and `dsh-llm` — its verbs are defined over a `Session` and its output is the `ContentBlock` vocabulary, so the contract cannot be expressed without naming them. That deviation from the "interface depends only on cordis" guidance is intentional and recorded in the [compaction capability-seam RFC](../../docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-18-compaction-capability-seam.md). A tokenizer- or template-based backend would replace `compact-basic` without touching the interface or the tool.
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