{"version":"2.1.296","anchor":"compaction-prompt-variants-shortshort-v2-added","canonical_anchor":"compaction-prompt-variants-shortshort-v2-added","heading":"Conversation summaries can now use short and short_v2 prompt versions","tier":"internal","area":"Compaction","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.296\/e\/compaction-prompt-variants-shortshort-v2-added","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.296","markdown":"### Conversation summaries can now use short and short_v2 prompt versions\n\nThe prompts Claude Code uses to summarize a long conversation now include short and short_v2 versions, and short_v2 adds advice on finishing work\n\n**What**\n\nWhen a conversation gets too long, Claude Code compacts it, which means replacing older parts with a summary to free up space. The instructions used to write that summary now include two versions called short and short_v2. The short_v2 version adds guidance for picking up afterwards and finishing any work left undone.\n\n**Why**\n\nSummaries after compaction may read differently for sessions that get one of these versions.\n\n- Area: Compaction\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}