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Claude Code /compact vs /clear: When to Use Each (With My Numbers)

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Last week Claude Code compacted my conversations 67 times. I didn't type /compact once. Every one of them was auto-compact, firing in the middle of work. I only noticed because I wrote a small script that reads Claude Code's session logs on my Mac. The median compaction happened at 969,037 tokens .…

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  1. 2026-10-24 18:38 · DEV Community — AI
    Claude Code /compact vs /clear: When to Use Each (With My Numbers)

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