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Context Compression vs. Compaction: Stop Treating Context as One Thing

calendar_today June 29, 2026 person domain solo-io

Compaction is what an agent does when it runs out of memory, while compression is what infrastructure does so agents don’t have to; the post argues conflating the two layers leads teams to reach for the crudest option first.

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