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Context-limit banner now tells you auto-compact is switched off

Context-limit banner now tells you when auto-compact is off and points you at /config

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Context-limit banner now tells you when auto-compact is off and points you at /config

When the context limit is hit and there's no remote autocompact state, the banner now appends a hint that auto-compact is off and to use /config, but only when the user themselves turned it off. A new helper returns false if DISABLE_COMPACT or DISABLE_AUTO_COMPACT are set in the environment, and otherwise the hint fires only when autoCompactEnabled resolves to false from user settings (or from legacy global config while user settings is in play). The inline context-limit message was also extracted into its own component to carry this logic; DISABLE_COMPACT still selects the "/clear to continue" wording instead.

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Names in the bundleDISABLE_COMPACTDISABLE_AUTO_COMPACT
What the documentation says
Documented inclaude-code/errors
DISABLE_COMPACT Error reference modified, high confidence The line names only `/clear` when [`DISABLE_COMPACT`](/docs/en/env-vars) is set. Longer forms of the error, such as the compaction-failed form below, keep the `Prompt is too long ·` wording. In `-p` output and the transcript, the text stay… see the edit
DISABLE_AUTO_COMPACT Error reference modified, high confidence The **Auto-compact** toggle in `/config` writes `autoCompactEnabled` to user settings. The hint appears only when a `/config` change would take effect. For example, it doesn't appear when [`DISABLE_AUTO_COMPACT`](/docs/en/env-vars) or [`DI… see the edit
Since it was published

The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.

Added since A small documentation edit on Telemetry and egress touched a line naming /config after this was published. With `disableEssentialTelemetry`, `disableNonessentialTelemetry`, `disableNonessentialServices`, and `disableAutoUpdates` all set to `true`, the desktop application makes **no outbound connections to Anthropic-operated hosts at runtime**. … third-party/claude-desktop/telemetry see the edit
Confirmed since Anthropic's documentation has since written up /config, on MCP, plugins, skills, and hooks. | `.mcp.json` | MCP servers bundled with this plugin. A JSON object keyed by server name: `{"mcpServers": {"<name>": {"type": "http", "url": "...", "oauth": true}}}`. A remote entry uses `type` (`http` or `sse`), not `transport`, and suppo… third-party/claude-desktop/extensions see the edit
How sure we are
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesDISABLE_COMPACT on Error reference
Anthropic's release notes agreeImproved the context-limit error to say when auto-compact is off and point to /config to re-enable it

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