Auto Compact Failed when recovery compaction request is also over context limit (WSL + Claude Opus 4.6 via CLIProxyAPI)

[oinani0721]

Description

In long sessions on WSL, OpenCode shows:

• Auto Compact Failed
• All recovery attempts failed. Please start a new session.

Even though auto-compaction is enabled, the session exits instead of recovering.

In my logs, the original request is over the model limit, and then the recovery compaction request is also over the same limit, so compaction cannot succeed.

Environment

• OpenCode: 1.2.15
• OS: WSL2 Ubuntu 24.04 on Windows 11
• Terminal: Windows Terminal + tmux
• Model: claude-opus-4-6
• Provider path: OpenCode -> CLIProxyAPI (/v1/chat/completions) -> Claude
• CLIProxyAPI: v6.8.39

Steps to reproduce

1. Start a long OpenCode session with heavy agent/tool output.
2. Keep iterating until context gets large.
3. Send another request.
4. Observe OpenCode attempting auto compact, then failing with Auto Compact Failed and asking to start a new session.

Actual behavior

The request fails with prompt is too long, and automatic recovery compaction also fails because the compaction request itself is still too large.

Expected behavior

When compaction recovery would also exceed context window, OpenCode should still recover gracefully (e.g. harder pruning / partial-summary fallback / enforced handoff), instead of ending in unrecoverable state.

Evidence

From local proxy request dumps (sanitized):

1. Main request too long:

• error-v1-chat-completions-2026-03-03T221723-806d27cc.log
• {"type":"error","error":{"type":"invalid_request_error","message":"prompt is too long: 198817 tokens > 150000 maximum"}}

2. Compaction recovery request also too long:

• error-v1-chat-completions-2026-03-03T221724-26e0654d.log
• {"type":"error","error":{"type":"invalid_request_error","message":"prompt is too long: 156195 tokens > 150000 maximum"}}

Then additional retries continue failing (221734, 221736, 221748), and OpenCode surfaces Auto Compact Failed.

Related issues

This seems related to existing context/compaction overflow issues:

• Compaction overflow check doesn't account for large tool outputs until the next step, causing context overflow #10634 (compaction overflow check timing)
• Request size exceeds model context window #10220 (request size exceeds model context window)
• prompt is too long #5360 (prompt is too long, duplicate)

If needed I can share a minimal reproducible config and full redacted logs.

[github-actions]

This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:

• Request Entity Too Large with images blocks session — compaction also fails #14562: Very similar scenario where compaction also fails when the session hits context/size limits — the compaction request itself is too large to succeed, leaving the session unrecoverable.

You may also want to follow #10634 and #10220 which you already referenced, as fixes there could address this as well.

[github-actions]

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