Finding / openclaw
2026-10-24-openclaw-the-new-stable-train-no-longer-enables-the-profile-s-native-compaction-defaults
The new stable train no longer enables the profile’s native compaction defaults. Anthropic server compaction now requires params.anthropicServerCompaction: true, direct Anthropic API routing, and non-OAuth authentication. The stream wrapper also explicitly requires true. Public OpenAI Responses still defaults to the separate compact endpoint for budget-triggered compaction, but manual compaction requires params.responsesCompactEndpoint: true. Focused requests, overflow, and endpoint failure retain the client fallback. This is a verified difference in shipped behavior; this read did not establish why the earlier defaults were not retained.
Channel: tagged-release. Half: both. Date: 2026-10-18.
Operator consequence: Recheck explicit model parameters after upgrading to 10.7. Operators relying on native manual OpenAI or automatic Anthropic summaries must opt in again if the setting was previously omitted. Operators who explicitly opted out remain explicit. The profile must stop promising default provider-side summary work on these paths; route selection and summary quality remain operator decisions.
Receipt
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/compare/v2026.10.4…v2026.10.5
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/blob/v2026.10.7/packages/ai/src/transports/anthropic-payload-policy.ts#L67-L107
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/blob/v2026.10.7/extensions/anthropic/stream-wrappers.ts#L324-L331
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/blob/v2026.10.7/packages/ai/src/transports/openai-responses-payload-policy.ts#L204-L225
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/blob/v2026.10.7/docs/providers/openai/advanced.md#L353-L362
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/blob/v2026.10.7/docs/providers/anthropic.md#L906-L969
Finding metadata
Run: 2026-10-24-weekly-digest-2026-10-13_2026-10-24-frontier-v0
Finding ID: 2026-10-24-openclaw-the-new-stable-train-no-longer-enables-the-profile-s-native-compaction-defaults
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- git compare2026-10-24-openclaw-the-new-stable-train-no-longer-enables-the-profile-s-native-compaction-defaultsgithub.com/openclaw/openclaw/compare/v2026.10.4...v2026.10.5tagged commit file2026-10-24-openclaw-the-new-stable-train-no-longer-enables-the-profile-s-native-compaction-defaultsopenclaw/openclaw / packages/ai/src/transports/anthropic-payload-policy.ts#L67-L107tagged commit file2026-10-24-openclaw-the-new-stable-train-no-longer-enables-the-profile-s-native-compaction-defaultsopenclaw/openclaw / extensions/anthropic/stream-wrappers.ts#L324-L331tagged commit file2026-10-24-openclaw-the-new-stable-train-no-longer-enables-the-profile-s-native-compaction-defaultsopenclaw/openclaw / packages/ai/src/transports/openai-responses-payload-policy.ts#L204-L225tagged commit file2026-10-24-openclaw-the-new-stable-train-no-longer-enables-the-profile-s-native-compaction-defaultsopenclaw/openclaw / docs/providers/openai/advanced.md#L353-L362tagged commit file2026-10-24-openclaw-the-new-stable-train-no-longer-enables-the-profile-s-native-compaction-defaultsopenclaw/openclaw / docs/providers/anthropic.md#L906-L969