Researchers Warn: Enabling Context Compaction in Long Cyber Evals is Risky
nptacek · x · 2026-08-05
Security researchers highlight the dangers of enabling context compaction during a 40-hour autonomous cyber capabilities evaluation.
Current compaction methods, such as those handled by Haiku, are far too lossy to be trusted blindly in long-context scenarios. Experts note that anyone experienced with smaller scale evals would anticipate the trouble this setup can cause, potentially skewing the evaluation results.
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