August 17, 2026 / Daily Edition / 3 stories in this issue
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When a Context Limit Drops the User’s Turn

OpenClaw found a required Codex compaction preflight treating an intentional no-op as a fatal failure—so an overlong session could lose the incoming user turn before the model ever answered.

A rough paper diagram shows a user turn reaching required preflight, a crossed-out successful-but-uncompacted response, a circled Codex compaction request, and a stale-binding fallback card.
Diagram Punka required preflight cannot mistake an uncompacted no-op for recovery.
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