* feat(cli): add `sessions compact` command and fail loudly on CLI `/compact`
`sessions.compact` was reachable only as an internal Gateway RPC — no CLI
command, no docs — and `openclaw agent --message '/compact'` silently no-opped
with exit 0 because the slash-command handler rejects CLI-originated senders,
so the message fell through to an ordinary agent turn that compacted nothing.
- Add `openclaw sessions compact <key>` wrapping the existing `sessions.compact`
RPC; exit non-zero on a transport error or an `ok:false` payload so automation
never mistakes a silent no-op for success.
- Reject `openclaw agent --message '/compact'` with a redirect to the new
command and exit 1 instead of a silent exit 0. The shared chat-side `/compact`
handler is left untouched (no compatibility / message-delivery blast radius).
- Strictly validate `--max-lines` and `--timeout` (positive integers only).
- Document the command and the `sessions.compact` RPC in docs/cli/sessions.md.
Fixes#90640.
* fix(cli): inherit parent `sessions` options for `compact`
`openclaw sessions compact <key>` did not merge the parent `sessions`
command options the way its sibling subcommands (list/cleanup/info/…) do,
so a parent-level `--agent`/`--json` was silently dropped. In particular
`openclaw sessions --agent work compact <key>` compacted the default
agent's session instead of the work agent's — a wrong-target session-state
mutation.
Merge the parent options in the compact action (parent `--agent`/`--json`,
with the compact-level option taking precedence) and add regression
coverage for parent `--agent`, parent `--json`, and the compact-level
override.
Refs #90640.
* fix(cli): report pending Codex compaction and reject unsupported parent options
Address two ClawSweeper review findings on the `sessions compact` command:
- `sessions-compact.ts`: the Codex app-server `thread/compact/start` path
returns `ok:true / compacted:false` with a pending marker, meaning the
compaction was *started* asynchronously. The formatter collapsed every
non-compacted success into "No compaction needed", so Codex users were told
nothing happened. Report it as a started/pending compaction instead.
- `register.status-health-sessions.ts`: the parent `sessions` command defines
list-only options (`--store`/`--all-agents`/`--active`/`--limit`) that the
compact action previously ignored. Silently dropping a parent `--store` is
dangerous — the gateway resolves the target store itself, so a user could
believe they targeted one store while another is mutated. Reject any
unsupported inherited parent option with a clear error and a non-zero exit.
Add regression tests for the pending-compaction message and the rejected
parent options.
Refs #90640.
* fix(gateway): guard sessions.compact maxLines truncation against active runs
The non-maxLines (LLM) compact branch interrupts an active session run before
compacting, but the maxLines truncate branch read the tail, archived, and
overwrote the transcript in place without that guard. Exposing `--max-lines`
as a documented CLI command (this PR) would make the active-run data-loss mode
tracked by #72765 easy to trigger from ordinary CLI usage.
Run the same interruptSessionRunIfActive guard in the maxLines branch before
reading the tail and truncating, matching the LLM compact path. Add gateway
regression coverage over a real in-process Gateway: with no active run, the
maxLines branch truncates the on-disk transcript 500 -> 50 and preserves the
original 500 lines in the .bak archive; with an active embedded run, the
maxLines branch fires the same interrupt (abort + wait-for-end) before
archiving and truncating.
* docs(cli): move sessions compact section above related links
The new "Compact a session" section was inserted between the cleanup
section's inline "Related:" list and the page's final "## Related"
block, splitting related-link content around the command docs. Move the
compact section above the related-links area and merge the orphaned
"Session config" link into the single final "## Related" block.
* fix(gateway): avoid no-op compact aborts
Signed-off-by: sallyom <somalley@redhat.com>
* fix(gateway): satisfy compact preflight lint
Signed-off-by: sallyom <somalley@redhat.com>
* fix(sessions): preserve compacted transcript structure
---------
Signed-off-by: sallyom <somalley@redhat.com>
Co-authored-by: sallyom <somalley@redhat.com>
Co-authored-by: Peter Steinberger <steipete@gmail.com>
Adds `openclaw sessions tail` as an operator-facing progress view over session trajectory events, with conservative redaction for prompt text, tool arguments, and tool result bodies. The command supports explicit session keys, store/agent scope, follow mode, relocated trajectory pointer files, and cursor-safe follow across bounded trajectory window rewrites.
Documents the new sessions tail CLI surface in `docs/cli/sessions.md`.
Fixes#83441.
Co-authored-by: zhengzuo0-ai <zheng.zuo0@gmail.com>
Fixes#87016.
Empty preflight compaction recovery now resets stale token snapshots immediately, preserves valid legacy transcript rows during cleanup, and avoids re-persisting stale context-budget or compaction metadata after a successful retry.
Co-authored-by: Andy Ye <35905412+TurboTheTurtle@users.noreply.github.com>
Summary:
- Add explicit sessions cleanup --fix-dm-scope handling for stale direct-DM rows after session.dmScope returns to main.
- Preserve removed-row transcripts as deleted archives and expose the option through CLI, Gateway RPC, protocol schema, generated Swift mirrors, docs, tests, and changelog.
- Fixes#47561 and #45554.
Verification:
- pnpm exec oxfmt --check --threads=1 CHANGELOG.md docs/cli/sessions.md docs/concepts/session.md src/config/sessions/cleanup-service.ts src/commands/sessions-cleanup.ts src/cli/program/register.status-health-sessions.ts src/gateway/protocol/schema/sessions.ts src/gateway/server-methods/sessions.ts src/config/sessions/store.pruning.integration.test.ts src/commands/sessions-cleanup.test.ts src/cli/program/register.status-health-sessions.test.ts
- git diff --check origin/main...HEAD
- pnpm protocol:check
- pnpm exec oxlint src/config/sessions/cleanup-service.ts src/commands/sessions-cleanup.ts src/cli/program/register.status-health-sessions.ts src/gateway/protocol/schema/sessions.ts src/gateway/server-methods/sessions.ts src/config/sessions/store.pruning.integration.test.ts src/commands/sessions-cleanup.test.ts src/cli/program/register.status-health-sessions.test.ts
- pnpm test src/config/sessions/store.pruning.integration.test.ts src/commands/sessions-cleanup.test.ts src/cli/program/register.status-health-sessions.test.ts src/gateway/server.sessions.store-rpc.test.ts
- pnpm changed:lanes --json
Security:
- No new network, credential, process execution, dependency, or permission surface. Cleanup is explicit operator-invoked local session-store repair.
CI note:
- Exact-head CI failures match current main at 2e78fc57af in unrelated extensions/codex and extensions/microsoft-foundry type checks, outside this PR diff. No required checks are reported for this branch.
Bound default Gateway sessions.list responses to 100 rows when callers omit limit, with response metadata for totalCount, limitApplied, and hasMore.\n\nFixes #77062.
