Compaction hits summary output cap with GPT-6 Astra at max reasoning
Author: tianrendongCreated Sep 12, 2026Updated Sep 17, 2026
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What happened?
Context compaction fails intermittently with openai/gpt-6-astra at max reasoning. Context-overflow recovery stops with:
Context overflow recovery failed: Summarization failed: generation hit the token cap and the summary is incomplete
Steps to reproduce
- Launch:
pi --provider openai --model gpt-6-astra --thinking max - Run long, tool-heavy conversation until context-overflow recovery triggers. If summary generation exhausts output budget, recovery fails with error above.
Expected behavior
- User does not see above error and auto compaction just works.
Version
@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent 0.85.1; provider/model: openai/gpt-6-astra; reasoning: max.
Source: earendil-works/pi