compression.enabled: false is documented (agent/conversation_loop.py
overflow path) as disabling *automatic* compaction only — the terminal
context-overflow error explicitly tells users to run /compress manually,
and the gateway handler has never gated on the flag. But the classic CLI
(_manual_compress) and the ACP adapter (/compact) refused with
'Compression is disabled', leaving users at a full context with no
manual escape hatch on those surfaces.
Remove the stale gates (they predate the overflow-path design; the CLI
gate came from the original /compress commit's boilerplate) and unify
force=True across all manual-compaction call sites: ACP /compact and the
TUI's _compress_session_history (manual-only helper) now bypass the
summary-failure cooldown exactly like the CLI and gateway already did.
Also reword the ACP /context status line so a disabled-compression agent
no longer implies /compact is unavailable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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