codex - 💡(How to fix) Fix in goal last steer is re-included after each compaction [1 comments, 2 participants]

What version of Codex CLI is running?

v0.129.0-alpha.8

What subscription do you have?

pro

Which model were you using?

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What platform is your computer?

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What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

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What issue are you seeing?

After each compaction event agent is re-reacting to last sent steer message that is no longer relevant.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

1. Start long running /goal
2. At some point sent steer like, refactor X now
3. Agent will address steer message as expected, and continue normally
4. Compaction happens
5. Agent re-recive last steer again and tries to address it again
6. This will repeat after every future compaction

What is the expected behavior?

Steer should not be re-included after compaction or, next goal cycle should displace user messages in history

Additional information

Here is codex analysis of the issue:

• turn/steer becomes pending input, then gets recorded as a normal user message once consumed.
• Compaction preserves recent non-summary user messages. It does not know that an old user message was only a temporary steer.
• /goal continuation prompts are injected as developer messages, not user messages, so they do not displace that old steer as the latest “real user” message.
• After each compaction, the replacement history can still contain that old steer as the most recent real user message, plus a fresh summary. The model can then treat it as newly salient and react to it again.