Context compression can stream for minutes with no deltas, tool events,
or status lines reaching remote transports. Idle-progress watchdogs on
those clients treat the silence as a dead turn and interrupt it — the
Android relay app's 180s turn watchdog fires session.interrupt, killing
a healthy compression mid-flight and rolling back its work. On sessions
near the context ceiling this loops forever: every new prompt retriggers
preflight compression, which dies at exactly +180s again (observed
telemetry: attempts aborted at 180469ms/180233ms/180219ms with
failure_class=explicit_interrupt).
Fix: the existing _CompressionActivityHeartbeat (which today only
refreshes the SessionDB activity tracker) now also emits a 'compacting'
status through agent.status_callback — once at compression start and on
every heartbeat tick. The gateway already routes status_callback to
status.update events, and clients already reset their watchdogs on any
received event, so each heartbeat re-arms them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 6d2e0e860d6fdb44ce549d1fa11a06662b1a4b0b)
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