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[Bug]: Conversation not compacting

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
65/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
shell
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by tracing the /compact command from the desktop GUI and inspect the conversation-compaction and token-counting path. Reproduce the issue on Linux using GUI version 0.1.35, then verify that /compact reduces the conversation and reports tokens saved rather than zero.

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Description

bug
GUI version

0.1.35

Operating system

Linux (other)

Reproduction steps
  1. Open Command Code
  2. Get into a conversation
  3. run /compact
Expected behavior

It should compact the conversation in order to save tokens

Actual behavior

It isn't compacting the conversation and prints "Compacted to n messages to n+1 messages, saved 0 tokens" just like the attached screenshot

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