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## Availability ### API support #### [Messages API](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/working-with-messages) ### Required beta headers
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500500If you send thinking blocks back on a model with [preserved thinking](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/preserved-thinking), the thinking in the kept turns stays valid only while the [conditions for kept thinking](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/compaction-thinking-blocks#conditions-for-kept-thinking-to-stay-valid) hold, and one of them limits where the cut can fall.
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502502The program’s cut, between a reply and the next `user` message, meets that condition. So does a cut at the end of a request you already made: compact exactly that request’s `messages`, and keep everything your history has gained since.
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504## Availability
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506Keep-tail compaction is in beta on select models.
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508### API support
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510#### [Messages API](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/working-with-messages)
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512* Availability: Available
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514| Status | Cloud platforms | Models |
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516| Beta | Claude API, [Claude Platform on AWS](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/claude-platform-on-aws), [Claude Models on Google Cloud (Google managed)](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/claude-models-on-google-cloud/google-managed), [Microsoft Foundry](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/claude-in-microsoft-foundry) | [Claude Fable 5.1](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/fable-5-1/overview), [Claude Mythos 5.1](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/mythos-5-1/overview), [Claude Fable 5](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/fable-5/overview), [Claude Mythos 5](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/mythos-5/overview), Claude Mythos Preview, [Claude Opus 5.5](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/opus-5-5/overview), [Claude Opus 5](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/opus-5/overview), [Claude Sonnet 5.5](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/sonnet-5-5/overview), [Claude Sonnet 5](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/sonnet-5/overview), [Claude Haiku 5.5](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/haiku-5-5/overview), [Claude Opus 4.8](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/opus-4-8/overview), [Claude Opus 4.7](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/opus-4-7/overview), [Claude Opus 4.6](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/opus-4-6/overview), [Claude Sonnet 4.6](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/sonnet-4-6/overview) |
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518### Required beta headers
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520[Beta headers overview](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/beta-headers)
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522Beta headers allow you to access experimental features and new model capabilities before they become part of the standard API.
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524* `compact-2026-09-04`
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