Anthropic Tips: Run /compact Before Leaving to Save Tokens
Saboo_Shubham_ · x · 2026-08-15
Anthropic published advice on running Claude Code efficiently without burning tokens. Since prompt cache expires after an hour, users should run /compact before stepping away while it is still cached. Summarizing later after the cache expires costs significantly more.
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