Reddit probes how Claude Code’s /compact turns chats into summaries
MiddleLtSocks · reddit · 2026-07-23
A Reddit discussion digs into Claude Code’s /compact behavior by asking whether people have inspected its network traffic or used packet sniffers.
The key point: /compact appears to send the model a prompt to summarize the current session, and then Claude Code reuses that summary as the first prompt in a fresh session. The thread frames this as compaction by another name and asks whether everyone already knew this or whether it is less obvious than it seems.
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