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16071607Right after compaction, Claude Code re-reads up to five of the files Claude has read or edited in the session, choosing the ones modified most recently. A file over 5,000 tokens comes back as a path reference without its content, shown as `Referenced file` instead of `Read`.
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1609Path-scoped rules and nested CLAUDE.md files load into message history when their trigger file is read, so compaction summarizes them away with everything else. If a rule must persist across compaction, drop the `paths:` frontmatter or move it to the project-root CLAUDE.md.
1609Path-scoped rules and nested CLAUDE.md files load into message history when Claude reads, writes, or edits their trigger file, so compaction summarizes them away with everything else. If a rule must persist across compaction, drop the `paths:` frontmatter or move it to the project-root CLAUDE.md.
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16111611Skill bodies are re-injected after compaction, but large skills are truncated to fit the per-skill cap, and the oldest invoked skills are dropped once the total budget is exceeded. Truncation keeps the start of the file, so put the most important instructions near the top of `SKILL.md`.
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