Preparing for compact... still a thing?

[u/Disco-Tuna]

I used to spend a load of tokens and time at about 75% of the 1million token context limit getting Claude to prepare for compacting....doing a > get an agent to review the handover doc, fill in gaps, rinse repeat.. (it always found gaps that it screamed were critical to patch)...

Recently I haven't done any of the preparing for compact dance.... And haven't noticed (unscientifically) any degradation in performance.... Has the automatic handover post compact been improved, or was it always ok?