From 87b60ae49a9f9bb61fa57468e68344e4d4113a64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Gutowsky <david.gutowsky@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:06:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] no-mistakes(review): guard token-delta status msg on actual
 compression in overflow handler

---
 agent/conversation_loop.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/agent/conversation_loop.py b/agent/conversation_loop.py
index 421629b4b03..bbc379adf25 100644
--- a/agent/conversation_loop.py
+++ b/agent/conversation_loop.py
@@ -3170,7 +3170,7 @@ def run_conversation(
                     if len(messages) < original_len or (new_tokens > 0 and new_tokens < original_tokens * 0.95) or (new_ctx and new_ctx < old_ctx):
                         if len(messages) < original_len:
                             agent._buffer_status(f"🗜️ Compressed {original_len} → {len(messages)} messages, retrying...")
-                        else:
+                        elif new_tokens > 0 and new_tokens < original_tokens * 0.95:
                             agent._buffer_status(f"🗜️ Compressed ~{original_tokens:,} → ~{new_tokens:,} tokens, retrying...")
                         time.sleep(2)  # Brief pause between compression retries
                         _retry.restart_with_compressed_messages = True