Session Compression History

Domain: Sessions & Profiles

Motivation

When a session is compressed, the old messages are replaced by a summary. The summary is part of the conversation history.

Concrete Example

Session: 200 messages (100K tokens). Compression: summarizes first 150 messages into 5K tokens. Now: summary + 50 recent messages = 30K tokens. More room.

Analogy

A meeting summary - instead of 2 hours of transcript, you have a 1-page summary. Compression history replaces old messages with summaries.