How Claude Code uses prompt caching changedprompt-caching
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181181> Compaction works in your favor when the context you discard is content you no longer need. To choose when its overhead happens, run `/compact` at a natural break in your work, such as between tasks, instead of waiting for auto-compaction to trigger mid-task. If you've gone down a path you want to abandon entirely, [`/rewind`](#rewinding-the-conversation) to an earlier turn instead. Rewinding truncates back to a prefix that is already cached, rather than building a new one as compaction does.
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183If you leave a long conversation idle in a terminal session while it is on the [one-hour TTL](#which-ttl-each-request-gets), Claude Code can compact it shortly before the cache expires. To turn idle compaction off, set [`idleCompaction`](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings-reference#idlecompaction) to `false`, which requires Claude Code v2.1.290 or later.
183If you leave a long conversation idle while it is on the [one-hour TTL](#which-ttl-each-request-gets), Claude Code can compact it. To turn idle compaction off, set [`idleCompaction`](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings-reference#idlecompaction) to `false`, which requires Claude Code v2.1.290 or later.
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