Compact conversations in Claude Code

When your context window fills up during a long session, Claude Code will automatically compact the conversation. This summarizes what's happened so far, and moves it to the start of a new conversation so you can continue working without losing the context of what you were working on.

How compaction works

Compaction isn't just a simple summary of what you talked about. Claude Code intelligently retains the information that matters, including what files you're working on, the decisions you've made, and the state of your current task, while discarding the back-and-forth that led you the...