diff --git a/packages/compact/compact-basic/README.md b/packages/compact/compact-basic/README.md
index 5d4f2c755e..6e8eb0765d 100644
--- a/packages/compact/compact-basic/README.md
+++ b/packages/compact/compact-basic/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The abstract contract states only WHAT compaction does; this backend owns every
 - **Token estimation** — `estimateContentTokens()`: char/4 with per-block structural overhead (`text`/`reasoning` = `ceil(len/4) + 4`, `tool-call` from name + arguments, `tool-result` recursive, `image` = 85, unknown blocks via JSON length).
 - **Retention policy** — `compactIfNeeded()` walks the surface nodes tail→head summing per-node token estimates, and retains the smallest tail-run of WHOLE units (a closed step, or a single no-step node such as a pre-step `user/message` or inter-step `steering/message`) whose total reaches `retainTokens`; everything older is compacted. Retention is **turn-agnostic** — turn boundaries play no role, so a single runaway turn that alone exceeds the window compacts its OWN early closed steps rather than being retained verbatim (the failure mode that motivated dropping turn-protection: a tool-heavy turn must stay compactable or the harness dies exactly when compaction is needed). The only structural guard is **tool-pairing balance**: the compacted region's edges are balanced cuts on the surface (no unanswered tool-call crosses either edge), so it never splits a step's `assistant/message` tool-calls from their `tool/result`s. When the only compactable content left is an un-splittable open tail step, it declines (returns `null`) and retries once an older step closes. **Single-unit overflow is out of scope, by design**: if one retained unit (a single closed step, or a large pasted `user/message`) ALONE exceeds the budget, compaction cannot help and the call may go out over-budget — bounding an individual unit's size is a separate concern. `compactRegion()` enforces tool-pairing balance strictly, throwing on a boundary that would split a step. `dsh-session` exports `isToolPairingBalanced` for the check.
 - **Dynamic convergence** — no static summary-length config pretends to bound what the model will write. If framing/estimator/system overhead leaves the compacted surface above threshold, `compactIfNeeded()` re-compacts the head checkpoint up to `compactionRetries` extra times; if it still cannot get below threshold, it throws. A summary whose estimated stored size is not smaller than the shadowed content fails closed before it mutates the surface.
-- **Summarization** — `summarize()`: a `GenerateOptions` request assembled via `BlockAssembler` with a fixed system prompt that asks for a structured checkpoint (Primary Request and Intent · Key Technical Concepts · Files and Code · Errors and Fixes · Pending Tasks · Current Work · Next Step · Critical Context), every section mandatory, exact paths/commands/identifiers preserved. The request runs through the `agent/request` waterfall before `ctx.llm.stream()`, so router agents that choose the concrete model there also route compaction summaries. `maxTokens` is the provider-side generation cap; reasoning blocks from reasoning-capable APIs are stripped before the checkpoint is stored. The compacted region is flattened to a plain-text transcript first: text and reasoning contribute their text, and every non-text block (image, tool-call, tool-result, plugin-added types) contributes a type-tagged placeholder (`[image]`, `[tool-call: name(args)]`, …) so the summarizer is told what existed rather than silently dropping it.
+- **Summarization** — `summarize()`: a `GenerateOptions` request assembled via `BlockAssembler` with a fixed system prompt that asks for a structured checkpoint (Primary Request and Intent · Key Technical Concepts · Files and Code · Errors and Fixes · Pending Tasks · Current Work · Next Step · Critical Context), every section mandatory, exact paths/commands/identifiers preserved. The request runs through the `agent/request` waterfall before `ctx.llm.stream()`, so router agents that choose the concrete model there also route compaction summaries. `maxTokens` is the provider-side generation cap; only text blocks from the model's reply are kept before the checkpoint is stored (reasoning is dropped so private chain-of-thought never leaks into the durable summary, and a stray `tool-call` is dropped so the synthesized `user/message` summary cannot land an orphaned call with no matching `tool-result`). The compacted region is flattened to a plain-text transcript first: text and reasoning contribute their text, and every non-text block (image, tool-call, tool-result, plugin-added types) contributes a type-tagged placeholder (`[image]`, `[tool-call: name(args)]`, …) so the summarizer is told what existed rather than silently dropping it.
 - **Checkpoint framing** — the raw summary is not landed directly. `compactRegion()` wraps it in a checkpoint preamble (so a resuming model reads it as a checkpoint, not a fresh user request, and builds on the captured context rather than restating it) plus `<compacted-summary>…</compacted-summary>` tags. Because region compaction can be invoked manually, a surface may hold several checkpoints, so the framing does not claim everything after it is recent or verbatim. The tags make a prior checkpoint detectable in the transcript on the next compaction cycle: the summarization prompt then instructs the model to merge it in place (preserve still-true facts, drop stale ones) rather than re-summarize it verbatim — a cheap incremental merge that needs no extra log/event machinery. The unframed summary stays on the `compact/summary` provenance event.
 - **Surface mutation** — `compactRegion()` appends the `compact/start` → `compact/summary` → `compact/end` log records and the single `user/message` replace node carrying the framed summary (see the interface README).
 - **Auto-compaction** — an `agent/pre-step` listener delegates to `compactIfNeeded()` before every step (not just a turn's first — a tool-heavy turn grows the surface mid-turn, so a runaway turn still compacts, and per-step firing is the only moment to rescue it before overflow). `agent/pre-step` is a serial (awaited, in-order, no-veto) surface-mutation checkpoint that fires after `turn/start` and BEFORE the step opens (`step/start`) and its request history is derived, so compaction mutates the surface — with its log-only `compact/*` records landing cleanly outside any step — and the loop derives once from the result: no double-derive, and the listener cannot see (or need to rewrite) an already-assembled `messages` array. The listener owns no threshold logic of its own (the single token-pressure check lives in `compactIfNeeded()`).
diff --git a/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/index.ts b/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/index.ts
index 7d84b52511..9d0849b19a 100644
--- a/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/index.ts
@@ -306,9 +306,9 @@ export class BasicCompactService extends CompactService {
     const error = finishError(assembler.finish)
     if (error) throw error
 
-    const summary = this._stripReasoning(assembler.message().content)
+    const summary = this._textOnly(assembler.message().content)
     if (!summary.some(block => block.type === 'text' && block.text.trim().length > 0)) {
-      throw new Error('summarization produced no non-reasoning summary content')
+      throw new Error('summarization produced no text summary content')
     }
 
     return summary
@@ -358,7 +358,9 @@ export class BasicCompactService extends CompactService {
 
       const range = this._compactableRange(session)
       if (range === null) {
+        /* v8 ignore else -- defensive for non-standard subclass mutations; the concrete replace keeps a compactable head checkpoint. */
         if (result === null) return null
+        /* v8 ignore next -- paired with the ignored defensive branch above. */
         break
       }
 
@@ -605,21 +607,19 @@ export class BasicCompactService extends CompactService {
     return { start: firstSeq, end: cutoffSeq }
   }
 
-  /** Remove reasoning blocks from model-produced summary content before storing it. */
-  private _stripReasoning(blocks: readonly ContentBlock[]): ContentBlock[] {
-    const stripped: ContentBlock[] = []
-    for (const block of blocks) {
-      switch (block.type) {
-        case 'reasoning':
-          break
-        case 'tool-result':
-          stripped.push({ ...block, content: this._stripReasoning(block.content) })
-          break
-        default:
-          stripped.push(block)
-      }
-    }
-    return stripped
+  /**
+   * Keep ONLY text blocks from the model-produced summary before storing it.
+   *
+   * The summary lands on the surface as a synthesized `user/message` (see
+   * {@link _frameSummary}), so the only block type that is both useful and safe
+   * there is `text`. A model assistant message can otherwise carry `reasoning`
+   * (private chain-of-thought, must not leak into the durable checkpoint) and
+   * `tool-call` blocks — and a surviving `tool-call` in a user message would be
+   * an orphaned call with no matching `tool-result`, exactly the tool-pairing
+   * breakage compaction works to avoid. Filtering to text drops both.
+   */
+  private _textOnly(blocks: readonly ContentBlock[]): ContentBlock[] {
+    return blocks.filter((block): block is Extract<ContentBlock, { type: 'text' }> => block.type === 'text')
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/packages/compact/compact-basic/tests/compact-basic.spec.ts b/packages/compact/compact-basic/tests/compact-basic.spec.ts
index 73fc6246e6..906841c39f 100644
--- a/packages/compact/compact-basic/tests/compact-basic.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/compact/compact-basic/tests/compact-basic.spec.ts
@@ -520,6 +520,24 @@ describe('BasicCompactService.compactIfNeeded', () => {
     expect(result!.shadowedSeqs.length).toBeGreaterThan(0)
   })
 
+  it('returns the first compaction result when a zero-retry pass converges after the loop', async () => {
+    // With compactionRetries=0 there is no next-loop threshold check after the
+    // first mutation, so the success path is the post-loop `return result`.
+    const svc = createTestService({
+      contextWindow: 100,
+      thresholdRatio: 0.7,
+      retainTokens: 10,
+      compactionRetries: 0,
+    })
+    const session = multiTurnSession(3, 1) // 6 derived messages = 84 estimated tokens.
+
+    const result = await compactIfNeeded(svc, session, '', 'm', SIGNAL)
+
+    expect(result).not.toBeNull()
+    expect(session.events.filter(e => e.type === 'compact/summary')).toHaveLength(1)
+    expect(svc.estimateTokens(session.deriveMessages(), '')).toBeLessThan(70)
+  })
+
   it('walks tail→head and retains nodes within token budget', async () => {
     const svc = createTestService({ contextWindow: 350, thresholdRatio: 0.2, retainTokens: 15 })
     const session = multiTurnSession(5, 1) // 10 surface nodes = ~100 tokens
@@ -955,10 +973,13 @@ describe('BasicCompactService.summarize (real ctx.llm.stream)', () => {
     expect(adapter.lastOptions!.maxTokens).toBe(50)
   })
 
-  it('strips reasoning blocks from the stored summary', async () => {
+  it('keeps only text blocks in the stored summary (drops reasoning and tool-call)', async () => {
     const { ctx } = await ctxWithBlocks([
       { type: 'reasoning', text: 'private chain of thought' },
       { type: 'text', text: 'PUBLIC SUMMARY' },
+      // A model reply can carry a tool-call; it must not survive into the
+      // synthesized user/message summary as an orphaned call.
+      { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('c1'), name: 'bash', arguments: '{}' },
     ])
     const svc = new BasicCompactService(ctx, { auto: false })
 
@@ -967,11 +988,11 @@ describe('BasicCompactService.summarize (real ctx.llm.stream)', () => {
     expect(summary).toEqual([{ type: 'text', text: 'PUBLIC SUMMARY' }])
   })
 
-  it('throws when stripping reasoning leaves no summary text', async () => {
+  it('throws when no text block remains after filtering', async () => {
     const { ctx } = await ctxWithBlocks([{ type: 'reasoning', text: 'private only' }])
     const svc = new BasicCompactService(ctx, { auto: false })
 
-    await expect(summarize(svc, 'User: hi', 'test-model')).rejects.toThrow(/no non-reasoning summary content/)
+    await expect(summarize(svc, 'User: hi', 'test-model')).rejects.toThrow(/no text summary content/)
   })
 
   it('throws when no model is provided', async () => {
@@ -1070,6 +1091,26 @@ describe('BasicCompactService auto-compaction (agent/pre-step listener)', () =>
     expect(session.deriveMessages()[0]!.content).toContainEqual({ type: 'text', text: 'SUMMARY' })
   })
 
+  it('logs compaction details when auto-compaction returns a converged result', async () => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    const infos: string[] = []
+    ctx.logger.info = ((msg: string) => void infos.push(msg)) as typeof ctx.logger.info
+    void new TestCompactService(ctx, {
+      contextWindow: 100,
+      thresholdRatio: 0.7,
+      retainTokens: 10,
+      compactionRetries: 0,
+    })
+    const session = multiTurnSession(3, 1)
+    const agent = stubAgent(session, 'test-model')
+
+    await firePreStep(ctx, agent, 1, '')
+
+    expect(session.events.filter(e => e.type === 'compact/summary')).toHaveLength(1)
+    expect(infos.some(msg => msg.includes('compaction: shadowed'))).toBe(true)
+    expect(infos.some(msg => msg.includes('estimated tokens after compaction'))).toBe(true)
+  })
+
   it('compacts mid-turn on steps after the first (the surface grows within a turn)', async () => {
     const { ctx } = await ctxWithModel('SUMMARY')
     void new BasicCompactService(ctx, { contextWindow: 100, thresholdRatio: 0.5, retainTokens: 10 })