{"version":"2.1.296","anchor":"compaction-task-list-carry-adds-a-metadata-tier","canonical_anchor":"compaction-task-list-carry-adds-a-metadata-tier","heading":"Task details now survive conversation compaction when there is room","tier":"notice","area":"Compaction","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.296\/e\/compaction-task-list-carry-adds-a-metadata-tier","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.296","markdown":"### Task details now survive conversation compaction when there is room\n\nAfter compaction, Claude Code keeps task metadata when it fits and drops detail one step at a time when it does not\n\n**What**\n\nCompaction is when Claude Code shortens a long conversation by summarising it, so that it fits within the model's limit. Claude Code carries the task list through compaction. It now tries these options in order:\n\n- Descriptions and metadata, meaning the extra details stored with each task\n\n- Descriptions only, with metadata left out\n\n- Task names only, with descriptions left out\n\n- No tasks at all\n\nBefore, Claude Code tried only descriptions, and then dropped descriptions.\n\n**Why**\n\nYour tasks now come through compaction with more of their details whenever there is space for them.\n\n- Area: Compaction\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}