Tim Dettmers releases CliffCompaction, a two-command context compaction tool for Codex and Claude Code
Tim_Dettmers · x · 2026-09-23
Tim Dettmers highlights new work from his students Trang and Eulrang Cho: CliffCompaction, a context compaction manager for coding agents like Codex and Claude Code, also integrated into bitsandbytes' autonomous research harness.
- Install and enable with pip install cliffcompaction then cliff enable.
- It works by maintaining a separate compaction state between you and any OpenAI/Anthropic API.
- A detailed blog post and video (the 'CliffCompaction Diary') accompany the release.
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