diff --git a/internal/agent/codex_catalog_compact_test.go b/internal/agent/codex_catalog_compact_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9af66acc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/agent/codex_catalog_compact_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+package agent
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/yetone/magpie/internal/catalog"
+	"github.com/yetone/magpie/internal/provider"
+)
+
+// Codex is told where to compact a long conversation (#876) both from the
+// gateway's /models (provider.CodexListed, which sets catalog.Model.Compact)
+// and from the list magpie writes for it on disk (magpie-models.json,
+// codex.go:593 -> codexcat.Catalog(magpieModels("codex"))).
+//
+// magpieModels left Compact unset, so codexcat fell back to the one for
+// every model: a threshold the user set on a model or on its provider
+// reached the gateway's list but not the one Codex reads from disk.
+//
+// syncHome gives relay serving glm-4.6, whose models.dev window is 204800.
+func TestCodexCatalogCompactAtReachesDisk(t *testing.T) {
+	home := syncHome(t)
+	// a threshold changed on a provider rewrites the agents' lists
+	catalog.Changed = SyncCatalog
+	t.Cleanup(func() { catalog.Changed = nil })
+	if err := provider.SetModelCompacts("relay", map[string]int{"*": 100000}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("SetModelCompacts: %v", err)
+	}
+	// connect Codex to magpie on a magpie model, as the app does: it writes
+	// the catalog it reads from disk
+	cx := codex(home)
+	if err := cx.Fields[0].Set("relay/glm-4.6"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	contextOf := func() (window, max int) {
+		t.Helper()
+		var got struct {
+			Models []struct {
+				Slug          string `json:"slug"`
+				ContextWindow int    `json:"context_window"`
+				MaxContext    int    `json:"max_context_window"`
+			} `json:"models"`
+		}
+		raw := readFile(filepath.Join(home, ".codex", "magpie-models.json"))
+		if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(raw), &got); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%v: %s", err, raw)
+		}
+		for _, m := range got.Models {
+			if m.Slug == "relay/glm-4.6" {
+				return m.ContextWindow, m.MaxContext
+			}
+		}
+		slugs := make([]string, 0, len(got.Models))
+		for _, m := range got.Models {
+			slugs = append(slugs, m.Slug)
+		}
+		t.Fatalf("relay/glm-4.6 is not in the on-disk catalog; slugs: %v", slugs)
+		return 0, 0
+	}
+
+	// relay's own "*" threshold, below the model's window: the window it is
+	// told is the threshold, and the model's own window is kept as the
+	// maximum so Codex still knows how much the model really takes
+	if window, max := contextOf(); window != 100000 || max != 204800 {
+		t.Fatalf("with relay's Compact at 100000: context_window = %d, max_context_window = %d; want 100000 and 204800", window, max)
+	}
+
+	// the model's own threshold comes before its provider's
+	if err := provider.SetModelCompacts("relay", map[string]int{"*": 100000, "glm-4.6": 150000}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if window, max := contextOf(); window != 150000 || max != 204800 {
+		t.Fatalf("with relay/glm-4.6's own Compact at 150000: context_window = %d, max_context_window = %d; want 150000 and 204800", window, max)
+	}
+
+	// taken away, the one for every model answers again: the whole window,
+	// as the default threshold sits above this model's
+	if err := provider.SetModelCompacts("relay", nil); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if window, max := contextOf(); window != 204800 || max != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("with no threshold set: context_window = %d, max_context_window = %d; want the window and no maximum", window, max)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/agent/route.go b/internal/agent/route.go
index 1f5345b4..f464be1c 100644
--- a/internal/agent/route.go
+++ b/internal/agent/route.go
@@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ func magpieModels(agent string) []catalog.Model {
 	st, find := settings.Load(), provider.GroupFinder()
 	for i, e := range shown {
 		m := catalog.Model{ID: e.ID, Name: labels[i], Provider: firstOf(e.Provider.Catalogs()), Efforts: e.Efforts, Images: e.Images || seen, ImageInput: e.ImageInput, Context: e.Context, Output: e.Output, AgentsV2: e.AgentsV2, Reasoning: e.Reasoning}
+		// where Codex and Claude Code compact it (#876): a threshold the
+		// user set on the model or on its provider, else the one for every
+		// model, which codexcat answers from the settings it is given
+		m.Compact = provider.CompactSetIn(st, e.ID, find)
 		// what a call costs the user (Pi's cost, #781)
 		if pr, ok := entryPrice(st, find, e); ok {
 			m.Price = &pr
diff --git a/internal/provider/compact.go b/internal/provider/compact.go
index 33be35a7..c5d77b9e 100644
--- a/internal/provider/compact.go
+++ b/internal/provider/compact.go
@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ func CompactSet(id string) int {
 	return compactSet(settings.Load(), id, GroupFinder())
 }
 
+// CompactSetIn is CompactSet for a caller that already holds the settings
+// and the group finder: an agent's list is built for hundreds of models at
+// magpie's start, and reading both again for each is what EffectivePriceIn
+// saves the same loop.
+func CompactSetIn(s settings.Settings, id string, find func(string) (Group, []Member, bool)) int {
+	return compactSet(s, id, find)
+}
+
 func compactSet(s settings.Settings, id string, find func(string) (Group, []Member, bool)) int {
 	if len(s.ModelCompacts) == 0 {
 		return 0