Claude Code's Idle Compaction Irritates Users, Can Be Disabled

Claude Code's new idle compaction feature, which compresses sessions over 200K tokens, has drawn user complaints including accidental safety-classifier triggers after compaction; users share a two-command method to disable it.

2026-10-26 ~ 2026-10-27 · 2 related posts

• Users warn Claude's idle compaction can trigger false cyber safety blocks on all prompts — andersonbcdefg · 2026-10-26
• Claude Code's idle compaction annoys users — here's the setting to turn it off — JasonBotterill · 2026-10-27