From a269a5b38c149e2fbc0b94773a1eb0cf06c0d1fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:37:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] docs(compression): note acceptable false-positive path in
 zero-user provenance validator

---
 agent/context_compressor.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/agent/context_compressor.py b/agent/context_compressor.py
index cb49a131818e..b20b313a1633 100644
--- a/agent/context_compressor.py
+++ b/agent/context_compressor.py
@@ -2796,6 +2796,12 @@ This compaction should PRIORITISE preserving all information related to the focu
             summary,
         )
         task_snapshot = match.group(1).strip() if match else ""
+        # NOTE: the "User asked:" scan covers the WHOLE summary, so tool output
+        # quoted verbatim in e.g. Completed Actions can false-positive in a
+        # zero-user session. That is acceptable: the RuntimeError only rides
+        # the existing retry/deterministic-fallback path (which emits the
+        # no-user sentinel itself), so a rare false positive costs one retry
+        # rather than letting fabricated user attribution persist.
         if (
             task_snapshot != _NO_USER_TASK_SENTINEL
             or re.search(r"\bUser\s+asked\s*:", summary, re.IGNORECASE)