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I checked my Claude Code transcripts: 'compacting early' was idle compaction

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Originally published at its-tahir.com . Last week two of my Claude Code sessions compacted at about 265K tokens on a 1M-token window. It looked like a regression, so I read the compaction records in my own transcripts. They told a different story, and it turns out 'Claude Code keeps compacting' is…

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  1. 2026-10-28 13:18 · DEV Community — AI
    I checked my Claude Code transcripts: 'compacting early' was idle compaction

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