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Context Compression vs. Compaction: Stop Treating Context as One Thing | Solo.io

calendar_today June 26, 2026 domain solo

Compaction is what an agent does when it runs out of memory. Compression is what infrastructure does so agents don’t have to. They sound similar, they live in different layers, and conflating them is why most teams reach for the crudest option first.

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