Nothing to try yetTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
REPLArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.275,
In DevelopmentSection of the release
Unclear The finding describes this as currently dark; whether or how it is enabled for any accounts is not stated.
What
Compaction summaries (the notes shown when Claude Code condenses conversation history) can now include a note that your REPL (read-eval-print loop, i.e. notebook/code execution) variable bindings were preserved across compaction, saying "Your REPL VM state was kept across this compaction." This is powered by a new replBindingsKept field, computed from tool state, which replaces the previous replStateCleared boolean. This behavior is currently gated and not yet generally visible.
Why
This gives a clearer, positive signal about what was retained after compaction rather than only reporting that state was cleared, though it isn't yet enabled for all users.
