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Claude Code Session Compaction in 2026: How Context Summarization Works and What Your Agent Forgets
Community description: Claude Code Session Compaction in 2026: How Context Summarization Works and What Your Agent...
Dev.to | Sep 19, 2026 | jsmanifest
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Explicit artifacts survive compaction because the agent stores them as distinct context items rather than conversation history. Session state design determines what survives compaction. The agent cannot intrinsically detect context loss.
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