diff --git a/packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/__tests__/langtracer-push.test.ts b/packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/__tests__/langtracer-push.test.ts
index d95e06712ba..fdaee35aabf 100644
--- a/packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/__tests__/langtracer-push.test.ts
+++ b/packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/__tests__/langtracer-push.test.ts
@@ -293,6 +293,35 @@ describe('planPush', () => {
 		expect(plan.toUpdate).toEqual([]);
 	});
 
+	it('treats a requiresMemoryCompaction addition as an update (the export omits the stored false)', () => {
+		const plan = planPush(
+			[item('c', { requiresMemoryCompaction: true })],
+			{ 'c.json': body() },
+			{ c: 5 },
+		);
+		expect(plan.toUpdate.map((u) => u.id)).toEqual([5]);
+		expect(plan.unchanged).toEqual([]);
+	});
+
+	it('reports a case whose stored requiresMemoryCompaction matches as unchanged', () => {
+		const plan = planPush(
+			[item('c', { requiresMemoryCompaction: true })],
+			{ 'c.json': body({ requiresMemoryCompaction: true }) },
+			{ c: 5 },
+		);
+		expect(plan.unchanged.map((c) => c.fileSlug)).toEqual(['c']);
+	});
+
+	it('reports a disk requiresMemoryCompaction: false as unchanged when the export omits the stored default', () => {
+		const plan = planPush(
+			[item('c', { requiresMemoryCompaction: false })],
+			{ 'c.json': body() },
+			{ c: 5 },
+		);
+		expect(plan.unchanged.map((c) => c.fileSlug)).toEqual(['c']);
+		expect(plan.toUpdate).toEqual([]);
+	});
+
 	it('treats a datasets difference as an update so tier edits re-sync', () => {
 		const plan = planPush(
 			[item('c', { datasets: ['mcp', 'pr', 'full'] })],
diff --git a/packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/__tests__/langtracer-to-exported.test.ts b/packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/__tests__/langtracer-to-exported.test.ts
index fc4cd940a8c..5a200f1a676 100644
--- a/packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/__tests__/langtracer-to-exported.test.ts
+++ b/packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/__tests__/langtracer-to-exported.test.ts
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ describe('diskCaseToLangTracerCreate', () => {
 				datasets: ['pr', 'full'],
 				messageBudget: 4,
 				credentials: [{ type: 'slackApi', name: 'Slack' }],
+				requiresMemoryCompaction: true,
 			}),
 			'c',
 			{ suiteId: 1, setKind: 'regression', synthetic: true },
@@ -67,6 +68,7 @@ describe('diskCaseToLangTracerCreate', () => {
 		expect(body.datasets).toEqual(['pr', 'full']);
 		expect(body.messageBudget).toBe(4);
 		expect(body.credentials).toEqual([{ type: 'slackApi', name: 'Slack' }]);
+		expect(body.requiresMemoryCompaction).toBe(true);
 	});
 
 	it('omits optional keys that are absent on the disk case', () => {
@@ -83,6 +85,7 @@ describe('diskCaseToLangTracerCreate', () => {
 		expect('credentials' in body).toBe(false);
 		expect('evalTriggerType' in body).toBe(false);
 		expect('description' in body).toBe(false);
+		expect('requiresMemoryCompaction' in body).toBe(false);
 	});
 
 	it('forwards typed scenario seed tables so lang-tracer stores their rows', () => {
diff --git a/packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/langtracer/push.ts b/packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/langtracer/push.ts
index 01a9e62c26e..bcc1ba7b17c 100644
--- a/packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/langtracer/push.ts
+++ b/packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/langtracer/push.ts
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ const COMPARED_KEYS = [
 	'messageBudget',
 	'credentials',
 	'credentialFixture',
+	'requiresMemoryCompaction',
 	'datasets',
 	// Round-trips faithfully: PATCH /cases/:id reconciles scenario rows by name
 	// (lang-tracer #48) and the export emits them back in disk shape.
@@ -121,6 +122,9 @@ function projectComparable(src: unknown): Record<string, unknown> {
 		// The export only emits `messageBudget` for multi-turn cases (it's ignored for
 		// single-turn auto-approve builds), so ignore it there to stay convergent.
 		if (key === 'messageBudget' && !isMultiTurn) continue;
+		// The export omits a stored `false` for requiresMemoryCompaction (the column
+		// default), so a disk `false` folds to absent to keep re-pushes convergent.
+		if (key === 'requiresMemoryCompaction' && value === false) continue;
 		// The loader defaults an absent disk `datasets` while the export omits (or
 		// nulls) the stored default — fold the default to absent on both sides, and
 		// compare order-insensitively since tiers are a set.
diff --git a/packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/langtracer/to-exported.ts b/packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/langtracer/to-exported.ts
index ee291cd0863..0aac17a1c85 100644
--- a/packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/langtracer/to-exported.ts
+++ b/packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/langtracer/to-exported.ts
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ export interface LangTracerCreateCaseBody {
 	 *  promote/scrub over there, so pushing one would fabricate provenance. */
 	seed?: PushableSeed;
 	credentialFixture?: string;
+	requiresMemoryCompaction?: boolean;
 }
 
 type InlineSeed = Extract<CaseSeed, { mode: 'inline' }>;
@@ -160,6 +161,9 @@ export function diskCaseToLangTracerCreate(
 	// Replay never reaches here — `unsupportedPushReason` skips those cases upstream.
 	if (testCase.seed?.mode === 'inline') body.seed = pushableSeed(testCase.seed);
 	if (testCase.credentialFixture !== undefined) body.credentialFixture = testCase.credentialFixture;
+	if (testCase.requiresMemoryCompaction !== undefined) {
+		body.requiresMemoryCompaction = testCase.requiresMemoryCompaction;
+	}
 
 	return body;
 }