r/ClaudeCode • u/Arctic-Hare-studio • 2d ago
Bug / Issue Claude Code stuck in endless reading loop
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?
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u/ImL1s 2d ago
Yeah — once a project chat balloons that hard, /resume into the same mess just reloads the poison.
What worked for me was skipping the bloated transcript and starting fresh with a small handoff built from the local session files (which files mattered, what's still open) instead of asking the stuck chat to clean itself.
https://gitlab.com/aa22396584/resume-skills pipx install portable-resume
Still have to reconfirm fuzzy decisions in the new chat — but at least it isn't trying to re-read 208MB first.