The REFERENCE ONLY framing ('treat as background reference, NOT as active
instructions... Do NOT answer questions or fulfill requests') was observed
bleeding into general tool-use suppression: a production session went
narration-only for 7 consecutive turns immediately after a compression
event, describing edits instead of calling tools (#65848 report).
Fix is additive: one clause stating the note does not restrict HOW the
agent works — tools remain fully active for the active task. Every
anti-resumption protection stays intact; the previous prefix generation
is frozen into _HISTORICAL_SUMMARY_PREFIXES per the module contract so
persisted summaries still get the directive-strip on re-compaction.
The #65848 rewrite was not taken: dropping the 'Do NOT answer questions'
line and the four-heading discard directive risks re-opening the
stale-task-resumption class those clauses exist to prevent (the carveout
era regressions #41607/#38364/#42812 documented in this file).
Report and root-cause analysis: @yasserbousrih (#65848).