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Claude Code /compact: What It Costs and What Survives

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The same /compact can cost you a few cents or a couple of dollars, and the context size does not decide which. The cache does. Anthropic's own prompt caching documentation for Claude Code says it plainly: to write the summary, Claude Code sends a separate request carrying your whole history, and "w…

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  1. 2026-10-26 05:29 · DEV Community — AI
    Claude Code /compact: What It Costs and What Survives

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