Allow controlling autocompact when spawning teammates
Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Feb 19, 2026 by TomNeyland Closed Mar 20, 2026
Problem
When spawning agent teammates, there's no way to control the autocompact setting per-teammate. Teammates inherit the lead session's global setting.
Use case
I run my main Claude Code session with autocompact off — I prefer to manage context manually. But when I spawn teammates, they fill their context window and either get stuck or require constant monitoring/interruption to prevent them from hitting the limit and stopping.
I'd like to keep autocompact off for my own session but have Claude Code able to launch teammates with autocompact on.
Proposed solution
Add an autocompact parameter (or similar) to the teammate spawning flow that overrides the global setting for that specific teammate.
Why existing options don't solve this
CLAUDE_AUTOCOMPACT_PCT_OVERRIDEin settings.json is global — affects the lead session tooautoCompact: falsein settings is also global- There's no per-teammate or per-spawn override
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