diff --git a/apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx b/apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
index 78c5f113162e..ec924e2c694a 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
@@ -8874,18 +8874,7 @@ export default function ChatView(props: ChatViewProps) {
     );
     const messageIdForSend = newMessageId();
     const messageCreatedAt = new Date().toISOString();
-    // Sending past the resume banner compacts first so the turn does not resend the stale
-    // history. The message queues behind the /compact run; steering into it is rejected,
-    // and a held queue would strand it.
-    const compactBeforeSend =
-      resumeCompactionBannerItem !== null &&
-      !compactDisabled &&
-      !hasHeldQueuedRuns &&
-      multipleModelSelections === null &&
-      messageTextForSend.toLowerCase() !== "/compact";
-    const turnDispatchMode = compactBeforeSend ? "queue" : dispatchMode;
-    const shouldQueueBehindActiveRun =
-      compactBeforeSend || (phase === "running" && dispatchMode === "queue");
+    const shouldQueueBehindActiveRun = phase === "running" && dispatchMode === "queue";
     const outgoingMessageText = formatOutgoingPrompt({
       provider: ctxSelectedProvider,
       model: ctxSelectedModel,
@@ -9451,22 +9440,6 @@ export default function ChatView(props: ChatViewProps) {
       failure = turnAttachmentsResult;
     }
 
-    if (failure === null && compactBeforeSend) {
-      const compactResult = await startThreadTurn({
-        environmentId,
-        input: {
-          threadId: threadIdForSend,
-          message: { messageId: newMessageId(), role: "user", text: "/compact", attachments: [] },
-          modelSelection: ctxSelectedModelSelection,
-          runtimeMode,
-          interactionMode: sendInteractionMode,
-        },
-      });
-      if (compactResult._tag === "Failure") {
-        failure = compactResult;
-      }
-    }
-
     let backgroundDraftOpened = false;
     let turnStartSucceeded = false;
     if (failure === null && turnAttachmentsResult._tag === "Success") {
@@ -9544,7 +9517,7 @@ export default function ChatView(props: ChatViewProps) {
           titleSeed: title,
           runtimeMode,
           interactionMode: sendInteractionMode,
-          dispatchMode: turnDispatchMode,
+          dispatchMode,
           ...(bootstrap ? { bootstrap } : {}),
           createdAt: messageCreatedAt,
         },