gemini-cli - 💡(How to fix) Fix context overflow (????) [1 participants]

What happened?

│ Tool Calls: 10 ( ✓ 9 x 1 ) │ │ Success Rate: 90.0% │ │ User Agreement: 100.0% (9 reviewed) │ │ │ │ Performance │ │ Wall Time: 34m 57s │ │ Agent Active: 29m 28s │ │ » API Time: 29m 14s (99.2%) │ │ » Tool Time: 14.2s (0.8%) │ │ │ │ │ │ Model Usage │ │ Use /model to view model quota information │ │ │ │ Model Reqs Input Tokens Cache Reads Output Tokens │ │ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │ │ gemini-3-flash-preview 188 3,607,845 1,497,708 20,851 │ │ ↳ main 62 1,588,116 1,403,685 476 │ │ ↳ utility_compressor 92 1,292,067 73,601 10,853 │ │ ↳ utility_state_snapshot_… 33 720,730 16,360 9,502 │ │ ↳ utility_tool 1 6,932 4,062 20 │ │ gemini-3.1-pro-preview 3 0 0 0 │ │ ↳ utility_compressor 3 0 0 0 │ ╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄

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What did you expect to happen?

I think this should never happen right? It should just keep compressing context automatically and it should never get to this state, I can't even compress it now and the session is completely borked. I have to start from scratch.

Client information

• CLI Version: 0.42.0
• Git Commit: 68e2196d5
• Session ID: 0e40dae4-e494-4288-a726-8cd1ebc91a7a
• Operating System: darwin v24.15.0
• Sandbox Environment: sandbox-exec (permissive-open)
• Model Version: gemini-3-flash-preview
• Auth Type: oauth-personal
• Memory Usage: 114.9 MB
• Terminal Name: Unknown
• Terminal Background: #000000
• Kitty Keyboard Protocol: Unsupported

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Anything else we need to know?

This keeps happening but I think it started after an update some time ago. You should be able to find why this happens.

Context Compression Threshold 0.4 (40%)* │ │ The fraction of context usage at which to trigger context compression (e.g. 0.2, 0.3).

I also get very annoying tool use related messages all the time that fill up the chat, I will file that bug additionally!