zed-industries/zed · error

this cloud model does not support explicit compaction

Error message

this cloud model does not support explicit compaction

What it means

Guard in the cloud model's compaction path: supports_server_side_compaction was consulted for a model whose provider is not OpenAi/Anthropic or which lacks the server-side compaction flag, so explicit compaction is refused for this cloud model.

Source

Thrown at crates/language_models_cloud/src/language_models_cloud.rs:602

    fn supports_images(&self) -> bool {
        self.model.supports_images
    }

    fn supports_thinking(&self) -> bool {
        self.model.supports_thinking
    }

    fn supports_disabling_thinking(&self) -> bool {
        self.model.supports_disabling_thinking
    }

    fn supports_fast_mode(&self) -> bool {
        self.model.supports_fast_mode
    }

    fn supports_server_side_compaction(&self) -> bool {
        self.model.supports_server_side_compaction
    }

    fn supports_explicit_compaction(&self) -> bool {
        matches!(
            self.model.provider,
            cloud_llm_client::LanguageModelProvider::OpenAi
                | cloud_llm_client::LanguageModelProvider::Anthropic
        ) && self.model.supports_server_side_compaction
    }

    fn minimum_explicit_compaction_input_tokens(&self) -> Option<u64> {
        (self.model.provider == cloud_llm_client::LanguageModelProvider::Anthropic
            && self.supports_explicit_compaction())
        .then_some(anthropic::MIN_COMPACTION_TRIGGER_TOKENS)
    }

    fn compact(
        &self,
        request: LanguageModelRequest,

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Solutions

1. Select a Zed Cloud model (OpenAI/Anthropic) that supports server-side compaction
2. Use client-side context management for other cloud models

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at crates/language_models_cloud/src/language_models_cloud.rs:601 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of zed-industries/zed@5a9b9558db (2026-08-20). Data as JSON: /api/errors/bb2b0344f6e21f8d. Report an issue: GitHub.