idleCompaction
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
A new idleCompaction setting turns off background compaction while you're idle, and CLAUDE_CODE_IDLE_COMPACT_MIN_TOKENS sets its size threshold
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.290.
In the changelogs
2Releases whose published page names idleCompaction.
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v2.1.290
Idle compaction can be turned off with a setting and tuned with an environment variable
A new
idleCompactionsetting turns off background compaction while you're idle, andCLAUDE_CODE_IDLE_COMPACT_MIN_TOKENSsets its size thresholdfound in this entry's text
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v2.1.290
New idleCompaction setting stops compaction while a session is idle
Set idleCompaction to false to stop Claude Code compacting a long conversation while the session sits idle
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
First cited
0No release's published evidence quotes this name. The ledger indexes the Evidence lines of every changelog on this site, so this says nobody here has ever quoted it; it says nothing about how old the name is.
Presence across releases
0The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the settings key does. All settings keys.