{"version":"2.1.304","anchor":"alt-screen-leave-can-be-held-across-a-screen-handoff-compac","canonical_anchor":"alt-screen-leave-can-be-held-across-a-screen-handoff-compac","heading":"Smoother switches between full-screen views, and compaction summaries get tool names","tier":"notice","area":"Terminal UI","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.304\/e\/alt-screen-leave-can-be-held-across-a-screen-handoff-compac","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.304","markdown":"### Smoother switches between full-screen views, and compaction summaries get tool names\n\nClaude Code can keep the terminal's full-screen mode between one screen and the next, and passes the tools used into compaction summaries\n\n**What**\n\nTwo changes:\n\n- Many terminals have an alternate screen, a separate full-screen view that programs draw on. Claude Code can now stay on it when one full-screen view hands over to the next, instead of leaving and re-entering it in between.\n\n- When Claude Code compacts a conversation (shortens it into a summary to save space), it now passes along the names of the tools that were used.\n\n**Why**\n\nStaying on the alternate screen between views should mean less flicker when the screen changes.\n\n- Area: Terminal UI\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}