The bug: when you send a message and autocompaction kicks in, the transcript shows a Working turn card plus a separate "Compacting…" notice. Nothing is working on your request yet, so the card lies, and the two statuses compete.
The catch: at the moment you press send, conduit can't know whether compaction will happen. So the sent state has to be neutral enough to turn into either "compacting" or "working" without a flash of the wrong one. That's why this page has two sections.
Every card is a 3-frame storyboard: 1 Sent → 2 Compacting → 3 Replying. Use the toggle top right for dark mode.
ⓘ Compacting context…
The 32s spent compacting is billed to this turn's timer.
These cover the gap between pressing send and the first event. Each one must turn cleanly into either compacting or working.
Compacting context
Nothing yet, on purpose.
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Claudeopus-5.5
In every option, the Working card only appears once compaction ends and the model actually starts on your message. Its timer starts then too.
Compacting context 182k · 9s
Compacted context 182k → 41k · 141k saved
Summarising earlier conversation 9s
Earlier conversation summarised · 141k saved
compacting context first 9scompacted · 141k saved
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Compacting context182k · 9s
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Queue a follow-up…92%
Queue a follow-up…compacting
Queue a follow-up…23%
›Compacting context‹9s
›‹ Compacted · 141k saved
Websocket backoff Busy
Websocket backoff Compacting · 9s
Websocket backoff Busy
Compacted context · 141k saved
tidying context
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Compacting context, can take a minute9s
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Compacted context · 141k saved
Starting
Compacting context before starting 182k
Summarising 48 earlier messages9s
▸ 48 earlier messages summarised 182k → 41k
S1 Neutral presence + C1 Live seam.
No wrong first guess. The pulse commits to nothing, so it can become either state without a flash.
Reuses what exists. The live seam settles into the exact "Compacted context" rule conduit already renders, so frame 2 → 3 has no layout jump and no new component.
Turn timer stays honest. The Working card, and its clock, start when the model does.
Runner-up: C2 (seam above your message). It's the most truthful about what got compacted, but it moves the rule to a different spot than where completed compactions sit today.