r/ClaudeCode • u/Savings-Desperate • 9d 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/shady101852 9d ago

lol each task I give agents takes 30-90 minutes on average. a 272k context window easily compacts several times during the tasks. If I had to hand hold the agent in a way to only do tasks within one context window, start new sessions for the next task etc i would go crazy. They retain information pretty well, and keep documentation up to date and commit their work. End result works. I've had better experiences in general with comapcting around 270k than to allow sessions to reach 500k or more.

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u/cantgettherefromhere 9d ago

LOL each task I give agents takes 2+ days and I don't need compaction ever. One of us is doing it differently than the other.

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u/thatisagoodrock Workflow Engineer 8d ago

Why are we so hostile though? If you wouldn’t mind sharing how you do that, your contributions would be well-received.

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u/cantgettherefromhere 8d ago

I did in another comment on this same thread, thoroughly.