I am from the olden days, where I manage my own context, have auto-compact disabled, and never use /compact normally. If I ever get anywhere near 50% used, I start a new session. I just started to play with it again, and I have some questions. Normal is just “/compact.” However, you can also pass <optional custom summarization instructions> to the compact command. I have been playing with this prompt: tell me the optimal “/compact” command so that we do not lose anything and we can implement the plan in this session Then, I use that custom /compact command which is often quite long. Do you have auto-compact on? Does auto-compact do anything really intelligent like my manual 2-step process above? If you /compact manually, do you ever pass <optional custom summarization instructions>? Thanks in advance for any info. submitted by /u/LordLederhosen
Originally posted by u/LordLederhosen on r/ClaudeCode