The compaction trigger had compared a character-based estimate of the conversation, around three characters per token, against the model's context limit. Content that tokenizes denser — disassembly, image dumps, minified sources — filled the real window while the estimate stayed under the threshold, compaction never fired, and the turn was squeezed into a handful of output tokens. The trigger now also uses the token count the provider reports.6
| Breaking | `ubuntu-latest` moves to 26.04 between 19 October and 19 November |
| Wait | Cline desktop 0.0.31 drives a remote machine over SSH |
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