What
Rewinding takes a conversation back to an earlier point. When an option for transcript cleanup is on, Claude Code now works out the rewind point using only the messages after the last boundary in the transcript, then maps that point back to its place in the full list. Transcript cleanup removes older material from the saved conversation. Before, the whole message list was always used.
Why
Rewinding keeps working after older parts of the transcript have been cleaned up.
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What turns the transcript cleanup option on is not known.