Long-lived sessions (e.g. a Telegram thread resumed over hours/days)
accumulate a large context that the existing size-based threshold only
trims once it crosses `threshold × context_window`. Until then every
turn re-reads the full history, which on large-context models can mean
hundreds of K of cache-read tokens per call even across long idle gaps.
Add a time-based trigger that complements (does not replace) the size
threshold: when a session resumes after `compression.idle_compact_after_seconds`
of inactivity, compact the accumulated history up front, before the first
reply. Disabled by default (0), so existing behaviour is unchanged.
The trigger reuses `_last_activity_ts` (the last time the turn loop did
work) to measure the idle gap at turn start, gates the token estimate
behind a cheap gap pre-check, and skips compaction when the context is
already at/below the post-compression target (threshold × target_ratio)
so a short idle thread never pays for a summarization that saves nothing.
It also defers to an active compression-failure cooldown.
The decision is factored into a pure predicate, `_should_idle_compact`,
which is unit-tested without a live agent.
Muthuvel
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