{"version":"2.1.323","anchor":"compact-conversation-tool-note-gated-by-tengu-sunny-pancake","canonical_anchor":"compact-conversation-tool-note-gated-by-tengu-sunny-pancake","heading":"Conversation summaries are told not to treat the summary request as your task","tier":"notice","area":"Compaction","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323\/e\/compact-conversation-tool-note-gated-by-tengu-sunny-pancake","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323","markdown":"### Conversation summaries are told not to treat the summary request as your task\n\nThe summarizing prompt now says the summary request comes from the system, so it is not listed as your message, a pending task or a next step\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear whether the new summary instruction always applies or only when the remotely switched note is on.\n\n**What**\n\nCompacting is when Claude Code summarizes a long conversation to free up room. The request to write that summary comes from Claude Code itself, not from you. The prompt that asks for the summary now says this. It also says the request must not appear in the summary as one of your messages, a pending task or a next step.\n\nSeparately, Claude Code can now add a note about the compact-conversation tool to the main conversation when that tool is available. Helper agents do not get this note. The note is off unless it is switched on remotely.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis stops summaries from recording \"compact the conversation\" as something you asked for. Otherwise, after compacting, Claude might go on treating it as unfinished work.\n\n- Flag `tengu_sunny_pancake`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.323; this account: off, anonymous baseline: off, compiled default: off) 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.\n- Area: Compaction\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}