The autoContinue post-compaction prompt echoed the summary's '## Next
Steps' heading, but that section is generated only from the compacted
tail; the kept ~20k recent tokens are not fed to the summarizer. When
the user pivoted within the kept window, 'Continue if you have next
steps.' anchored the model on the now-outdated plan instead of the
latest intent.
Move the prompt to prompts/system/auto-continue.md (per AGENTS.md
no-inline-prompts rule) and rewrite it to direct the model to re-read
the kept recent messages and follow the user's most recent request,
explicitly allowing it to stop when nothing remains.
Fixes#840
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