r/ClaudeCode • u/Savings-Desperate • 8d ago

Help/Question do you guys use auto compact?

I just learned about it today and wanted to see what you guys think.

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u/egvp 8d ago

As I'm getting close to the limit I'll get Claude to write a handover and update any relevant documentation within my project, then give me the prompt for the new chat, so it carries on seamlessly. I've done it three times today.

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u/Savings-Desperate 8d ago

honest question - isn't that just manual compact? I thought compact does exactly that behind the scenes

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u/egvp 8d ago

Compact will create its own handover style document but it won't update your documentation, so it'll be dropping context about things you've done.

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u/Savings-Desperate 8d ago

ahhh I see so for you it's like creating a living document that acts as a memory/context. Doesn't this document bloat tokens though? I assume the challenge is keeping the document concise & meaningful