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I’ve been asked a lot why I keep Claude Code auto-compact turned off. Here’s why 👇 If you configure commands, sub-agents, and hooks properly, you almost never hit auto-compact. Every time it triggered for me, I lost important context. After looking at how compaction actually works, it was clear...

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