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Claude Code compacts idle sessions to cut resume usage

AIAnthropic says Claude Code now compacts long idle sessions just before the roughly one-hour prompt cache expires, so resuming reprocesses only the summary instead of the full conversation. On Pro and Max plans, resuming a very long conversation that would use a large share of the 5-hour limit now shows a warning first.
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Coming back to an old session got lighter on your usage.

Claude Code now compacts long idle sessions right before the prompt cache expires (~1h). If you come back to one later, it only has to reprocess the summary instead of the entire conversation.

And on Pro and Max, resuming a really long conversation now gives you a heads-up first if picking it back up would use a big chunk of your 5-hour limit.

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Original title: Coming back to an old session got lighter on your usage.