diff --git a/navi/config.py b/navi/config.py
index 095b08d..b486674 100644
--- a/navi/config.py
+++ b/navi/config.py
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
 
     # Context compression
     context_compression_enabled: bool = True
-    context_compression_threshold: float = 0.70   # trigger at 70% of ollama_num_ctx
+    context_compression_threshold: float = 0.90   # trigger at 90% of ollama_num_ctx
     context_keep_recent: int = 8                   # conversational turns to keep verbatim
     context_summary_temperature: float = 0.3
     context_summary_max_tokens: int = 4000         # max output tokens for the summary LLM call
diff --git a/tests/unit/workers/test_compression_worker.py b/tests/unit/workers/test_compression_worker.py
index 11f69ae..a407b32 100644
--- a/tests/unit/workers/test_compression_worker.py
+++ b/tests/unit/workers/test_compression_worker.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 def _ctx(session_id: str, llm, store) -> WorkerContext:
     return WorkerContext(
         session_id=session_id,
-        context_tokens=50_000,  # over the 0.70 threshold -> worker attempts compression
+        context_tokens=60_000,  # over the 0.90 threshold -> worker attempts compression
         max_context_tokens=65536,
         llm=llm,
         model="test",