You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
CompactionArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.314,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Compaction is how Claude Code frees up room in a long conversation by summarizing older parts of it. The step that prepares the content to be summarized has changed. It now trims that content in stages:
First it leaves out some messages.
Then it cuts text from the beginning.
On its final pass it removes images and other attached media.
It stops after a fixed number of passes.
Why
This could let compaction recover when the content to summarize is too long to send, instead of failing outright.
