Merge Release/1.6

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• The pull request title is a good summary of the changes - it will be used in the changelog
• Unit tests for the changes exist
• Run pre-commit install and pre-commit run --all-files before git commit, and passed lint check.
• Documentation reflects the changes where applicable

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This pull request finalizes the release of MS-Agent v1.6.0, bringing a suite of significant enhancements aimed at improving the framework's core capabilities. The changes focus on making agents more efficient and intelligent by introducing advanced context management, boosting the performance of the deep research system, enabling sophisticated knowledge retrieval, and broadening support for various input modalities.

Highlights

• Context Compression: Introduced a new context compression mechanism with token usage monitoring, overflow detection, and automatic context compaction through pruning historical tool outputs and LLM-based summarization.
• Agentic Insight v2 Enhancements: Implemented major architecture and performance improvements to the deep research system, achieving a score of 55.43 on DeepResearch Bench with GPT5 and Qwen3.5-plus/flash models.
• Knowledge Search Integration: Integrated Sirchmunk for intelligent retrieval over local codebases and documentation, enhancing agent conversations with relevant knowledge.
• Multimodal Model Input Support: Added support for image, video, and other multimodal inputs, expanding the types of data agents can process.
• Version Update: The project version has been updated to '1.6.0'.

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