From a6e06b9511ad5fe86eabd012e79aa578b3b2f699 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Newhouse <robin@cline.bot>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:03:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Report disabled CLI compaction as not compacted

---
 apps/cli/src/runtime/interactive/session-runtime.test.ts | 3 +--
 apps/cli/src/runtime/interactive/session-runtime.ts      | 9 ++++++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apps/cli/src/runtime/interactive/session-runtime.test.ts b/apps/cli/src/runtime/interactive/session-runtime.test.ts
index d227020b41..46a4c96afd 100644
--- a/apps/cli/src/runtime/interactive/session-runtime.test.ts
+++ b/apps/cli/src/runtime/interactive/session-runtime.test.ts
@@ -387,8 +387,7 @@ describe("createInteractiveSessionRuntime", () => {
 		expect(result).toEqual({
 			messagesBefore: messages.length,
 			messagesAfter: messages.length,
-			workingContextMessagesAfter: compactionState.messages.length,
-			compacted: true,
+			compacted: false,
 		});
 		expect(manager.updateSessionCompactionState).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
 		expect(runtime.getActiveSessionId()).toBe(sessionId);
diff --git a/apps/cli/src/runtime/interactive/session-runtime.ts b/apps/cli/src/runtime/interactive/session-runtime.ts
index 9b7bc21fd4..c3ae8cd0b6 100644
--- a/apps/cli/src/runtime/interactive/session-runtime.ts
+++ b/apps/cli/src/runtime/interactive/session-runtime.ts
@@ -644,7 +644,14 @@ export function createInteractiveSessionRuntime(input: {
 		const updated = await compactionSidecar.update(() =>
 			manager.updateSessionCompactionState(sourceSessionId, compactionState),
 		);
-		if (!updated.updated && !updated.disabled) {
+		if (updated.disabled) {
+			return {
+				messagesBefore,
+				messagesAfter: messagesBefore,
+				compacted: false,
+			};
+		}
+		if (!updated.updated) {
 			throw new Error("Compaction could not be saved. Try again.");
 		}
 		return {