{"version":"2.1.323","anchor":"compaction-beside-turn-trigger-and-refusal-retry-gates","canonical_anchor":"compaction-beside-turn-trigger-and-refusal-retry-gates","heading":"Two remote settings for compaction during a turn and refusal retries","tier":"soon","area":"Compaction","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323\/e\/compaction-beside-turn-trigger-and-refusal-retry-gates","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323","markdown":"### Two remote settings for compaction during a turn and refusal retries\n\nOne remote setting lets automatic compaction start during a turn, and another gates a model fallback after a refusal; both default to off\n\n**Unclear.** It is unclear what the refusal fallback does when it is switched on.\n\n**What**\n\nTwo new settings are controlled from Anthropic's servers:\n\n- One sets extra token headroom, room kept free in the conversation. It defaults to 0. When it is above 0, automatic compaction can be set up while a turn is still running. Compaction is when Claude Code replaces older messages with a summary.\n\n- One controls a check that may fall back to another model after a refusal. It defaults to off.\n\n**Why**\n\nBoth are off by default, so neither does anything until it is switched on remotely.\n\n- Flag `tengu_ambling_tortoise`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.323; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: 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.\n- Flag `tengu_sturdy_plover`: 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: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}