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24212421Idle compaction is on by default for conversations that meet all of these conditions:
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2423* **Session**: you're in an interactive terminal session, or in the VS Code extension's chat panel or the desktop app's Code tab on an [account that Anthropic selects](#idle-compaction-in-vs-code-and-the-desktop-app)
2423* **Session**: you're in an interactive terminal session, in the VS Code extension's chat panel, or in the desktop app's Code tab when the session runs on your machine or over SSH
24242424* **Auto-compaction**: [`autoCompactEnabled`](#autocompactenabled) is on
24252425* **Prompt cache**: the conversation is on the [one-hour prompt cache TTL](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/prompt-caching.md#which-ttl-each-request-gets)
24262426* **Feature flags**: Claude Code can [fetch feature flags from Anthropic](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/env-vars.md#features-that-need-feature-flag-fetching)
24272427* **Size**: the conversation's context has reached the token threshold, which you can [change](#change-the-idle-compaction-threshold) from its default of 200,000
2428* **Idle time**: about 54 minutes have passed since the last request, and your computer is awake at that point
2428* **Idle time**: about an hour has passed since the last request, and your computer stays awake until then
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24302430To turn idle compaction off, set this key to `false`.
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24712471Compacted using a summary written while you were away · turn off with "idleCompaction": false in settings.json
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2474You don't need to do anything. To turn idle compaction off, set `idleCompaction` to `false` in `~/.claude/settings.json` or another [settings file](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings.md#settings-files-and-who-they-affect).
2474You don't need to do anything. To turn idle compaction off, set `idleCompaction` to `false` in `~/.claude/settings.json` on the machine or WSL distribution where the session runs, or in another [settings file](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings.md#settings-files-and-who-they-affect).
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2476In the VS Code extension's chat panel and the desktop app's Code tab, idle compaction runs for accounts that Anthropic selects. Claude Code writes the summary while you're away, then compacts with it only if your next message comes an hour or more after the last request.
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24782476### `plansDirectory`
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24802478Choose where Claude Code stores the plan files it writes in [plan mode](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/permission-modes.md#analyze-before-you-edit-with-plan-mode). Claude Code resolves the path relative to the project root.
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34403438Set the attribution text Claude Code adds to git commits, including any trailers. Set it to an empty string to hide commit attribution.
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34423440* **Scope**: [`Any file`](#scopes)
3443* **Type**:
3441* **Type**: string
3442* **Default**: unset, so Claude Code adds `Co-Authored-By: <name> <[email protected]>`. The name is the model in use when the commit is made, such as `Claude Sonnet 5`. When a [subagent](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents.md) makes t
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