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owner: vegarsti
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# compaction

Keeping the conversation inside the context window.

In:
- Automatic and manual compaction, branch summaries.
- Context usage estimation and the footer context percentage.
- Session-level recovery after context overflow.
- Compaction model and thinking settings.

Not here:
- A provider's overflow error is not recognized: providers.

Examples: #9075, #9602, #9409, #10287, #10330, #7553, #9904.