You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
CompactionArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.314,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
CLAUDE_AUTOCOMPACT_PCT_OVERRIDE sets how full the context window, the amount of text the model can take in at once, must be before Claude Code compacts automatically. On its own it can only lower that point. Remote sessions are those where CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE is set. In those sessions there is now one case where the point can be raised. All three of these must hold:
the session is remote
CLAUDE_AUTOCOMPACT_PCT_OVERRIDE is set
the context window is small
Then a number sent by the server replaces your override, if it is higher and no more than 100. Without a value from the server that number is 0 and changes nothing. CLAUDE_CODE_BLOCKING_LIMIT_OVERRIDE is also read at this point.
Why
In those remote sessions, compaction can start later than your override asks for.
Nothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.
This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.314: not a boolean we can read
These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.
