notedeck

commit 670ac26aa818826e712fcc708a1dbc09f0bcb237
parent da8c8e643a347ad0719590ec922180e81db40b0b
Author: William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>
Date:   Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:27:03 -0800

dave: show compaction result message in chat

Display a "✓ Compacted (N tokens)" message in the chat when conversation
compaction completes, showing how many tokens the conversation had before
compacting.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Diffstat:
M
crates/notedeck_dave/src/backend/claude.rs
 | 
5
+++--
M
crates/notedeck_dave/src/lib.rs
 | 
3
++-
M
crates/notedeck_dave/src/messages.rs
 | 
5
+++++
M
crates/notedeck_dave/src/ui/dave.rs
 | 
22
+++++++++++++++++++++-

4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crates/notedeck_dave/src/backend/claude.rs b/crates/notedeck_dave/src/backend/claude.rs
@@ -91,8 +91,9 @@ impl ClaudeBackend {
                 | Message::ToolResponse(_)
                 | Message::Error(_)
                 | Message::PermissionRequest(_)
-                | Message::ToolResult(_) => {
-                    // Skip tool-related, error, permission, and tool result messages
+                | Message::ToolResult(_)
+                | Message::CompactionComplete(_) => {
+                    // Skip tool-related, error, permission, tool result, and compaction messages
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/crates/notedeck_dave/src/lib.rs b/crates/notedeck_dave/src/lib.rs
@@ -322,7 +322,8 @@ You are an AI agent for the nostr protocol called Dave, created by Damus. nostr 
                             info.pre_tokens
                         );
                         session.is_compacting = false;
-                        session.last_compaction = Some(info);
+                        session.last_compaction = Some(info.clone());
+                        session.chat.push(Message::CompactionComplete(info));
                     }
                 }
             }
diff --git a/crates/notedeck_dave/src/messages.rs b/crates/notedeck_dave/src/messages.rs
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ pub enum Message {
     PermissionRequest(PermissionRequest),
     /// Result metadata from a completed tool execution
     ToolResult(ToolResult),
+    /// Conversation was compacted
+    CompactionComplete(CompactionInfo),
 }
 
 /// Compaction info from compact_boundary system message
@@ -254,6 +256,9 @@ impl Message {
 
             // Tool results are UI-only, not sent to the API
             Message::ToolResult(_) => None,
+
+            // Compaction complete is UI-only, not sent to the API
+            Message::CompactionComplete(_) => None,
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/crates/notedeck_dave/src/ui/dave.rs b/crates/notedeck_dave/src/ui/dave.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ use crate::{
     config::DaveSettings,
     file_update::FileUpdate,
     messages::{
-        AskUserQuestionInput, Message, PermissionRequest, PermissionResponse,
+        AskUserQuestionInput, CompactionInfo, Message, PermissionRequest, PermissionResponse,
         PermissionResponseType, QuestionAnswer, ToolResult,
     },
     session::PermissionMessageState,
@@ -292,6 +292,9 @@ impl<'a> DaveUi<'a> {
                 Message::ToolResult(result) => {
                     Self::tool_result_ui(result, ui);
                 }
+                Message::CompactionComplete(info) => {
+                    Self::compaction_complete_ui(info, ui);
+                }
             };
         }
 
@@ -616,6 +619,23 @@ impl<'a> DaveUi<'a> {
         });
     }
 
+    /// Render compaction complete notification
+    fn compaction_complete_ui(info: &CompactionInfo, ui: &mut egui::Ui) {
+        ui.horizontal(|ui| {
+            ui.add(egui::Label::new(
+                egui::RichText::new("✓")
+                    .size(11.0)
+                    .color(egui::Color32::from_rgb(100, 180, 100)),
+            ));
+            ui.add(egui::Label::new(
+                egui::RichText::new(format!("Compacted ({} tokens)", info.pre_tokens))
+                    .size(11.0)
+                    .color(ui.visuals().weak_text_color())
+                    .italics(),
+            ));
+        });
+    }
+
     fn search_call_ui(ctx: &mut AppContext, query_call: &QueryCall, ui: &mut egui::Ui) {
         ui.add(search_icon(16.0, 16.0));
         ui.add_space(8.0);