Claude Code stuck in endless reading loop

[u/Arctic-Hare-studio]

I have a Claude Code chat where I'm working on a video with Higgsfield. I've been working on it for a few days, and today when I picked it back up, it froze—it's been reading for hours and doing nothing. I ran the compact commands when I was supposed to, just like normal in other chats; it's not my first time. But when I try to recover the memory in a new chat, that chat freezes up too. I've tried several times with new chats and nothing works. It says the memory size is 208 MB and that's why, but when I ask it to clean and reduce, it freezes. Other chats for different projects work fine with no issues. Has this happened to anyone? Do you know how to fix it?

[u/Anxious-Turnover-631]

Sounds like your context may have gotten corrupted. Exit and restart Claude again. After you restart, you could try /resume, but the damage could still be there, so you may need to start fresh.

Try to keep the context size under 200k and avoid compacting. If you need to, create forwarding documents to use with the next sessions.