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Claude Code compacts long idle sessions before prompt cache expires

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Anthropic says Claude Code now compacts long idle sessions just before the roughly one-hour prompt cache expires.

When a user resumes such a session, only the summary is reprocessed instead of the full conversation, according to the company's ClaudeDevs account on X.

On Pro and Max plans, resuming a very long conversation that would use a large share of the 5-hour usage limit now shows a warning first, Anthropic says.

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    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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