Codex compaction: the LLM requests a blank context and keeps its own notes

mitsuhiko · x · 2026-09-18

mitsuhiko observes that modern context compaction is deeply unintuitive: in Codex, the LLM can proactively request a blank context on its own and maintain notes itself to preserve task state — a model-initiated compaction rather than passive truncation.

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