Instead of compaction, has anyone seen a successful implementation of pruning? That is, the agent looks at the conversation history and removes any low-value messages.

For example, sometimes context will be taken up by a side tangent, tool call outputs, or low-value codebase exploration.

Much of the time, I prefer to preserve the history of my conversation instead of summarizing it. I find summarized conversations lead to more frustrating future chats because the LLM misses intent and or context. (Or, the presence of paragraphs and paragraphs of LLM output makes the next token predictor dumber? Unsure.)