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+- Fixed `LLMContextSummarizer` failing with "No messages to summarize" when using `system_instruction` instead of a system-role message at the start of the context. The summarizer previously scanned the entire context for the first system message, which could match a mid-conversation injection (e.g. idle notifications) instead of the initial prompt, causing the summarization range to be empty.