Original Reddit post

I tend to have to have a lot of pots simmering constantly, as I tend to need to switch around to different asks/tasks/priorities based on urgency or whatever else. I use cmux and tend to have claude sessions that will then float open and paused for long periods of time until my focus can get back to it and resume. However I have seen people mention that the cache related to that session would generally expire and when that session is resumed it kills a lot of tokens loading things cold. Also, I think it is worth considering two different types of resume:

  1. I still have that session open and waiting where i had left it in a different workspace and worktree. I then just start talking to claude again and try to pick up where I left off, often asking claude for a bit of a refresher if needed.
  2. The Claude code sessions was terminated and I am resuming it with /resume/–resume. I feel like I have not been following best practices around that and want to clarify my understanding, test a couple of theories with the community, and figure out if there is a better way to do this. I usually just either jump right back in if it is the #1 case, and even with #2 I will resume and jump back in. However, is that really wrong and how wrong is it? When I get back into a session in either case #1 or #2, is it worth or even advisable to have it generate a handoff summary document that would be enough to get a fresh session up to speed and actually pick up where I left off effectively with a cleaner context and more relevant memory/context/cache state? What does the community recommend for having the old session record and pass over to the new session to make this actually effective. To some degree this just simulates compaction and have heard many complaints about compaction (I really try to avoid getting to that point and watch my context and do handoff while I am actively engaged in a session). DOes compact capture the right things and it is more about really pulling your threshold farther back. I think for my case it might actually be good to have something that could fire the handoff and have it prepared if it detects the session being idle longer than some amount or as a pre-shutdown hook on a current session if that is viable. Has anyone tried this and found success? submitted by /u/Godofheckfire

Originally posted by u/Godofheckfire on r/ClaudeCode