You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
0Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
CompactionArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.317,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Compaction is when Claude Code replaces a long conversation with a summary so it can keep going. When some of the conversation was too large to include, Claude gets a note saying so. The note now says "part of the earlier conversation was too large to include". It used to say "the earliest part of the conversation".
Why
Claude sees slightly different wording about what the summary does not cover.
