Auto-Compact Summary Causing Infinite Context Consumption Loop

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Aug 18, 2025 by smallgreenant Closed Aug 22, 2025

Bug Description
Certain session tasks create an auto-compact summary that immediately uses the freed up session's context creating a perpetual auto-compact loop. This process effectively burns all of your tokens, degrades your model, and make the session context practiaclly unrecoverable.

Environment Info

  • Platform: win32
  • Terminal: vscode
  • Version: 1.0.83
  • Feedback ID: 5e890738-ff18-4866-8e93-4ab5c260287c

Errors

[{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n    at sP.makeRequest (file:///C:/Users/Jason/AppData/Local/nvm/v20.18.3/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:959:3840)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)","timestamp":"2025-08-18T20:11:30.341Z"},{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n    at sP.makeRequest (file:///C:/Users/Jason/AppData/Local/nvm/v20.18.3/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:959:3840)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)\n    at runNextTicks (node:internal/process/task_queues:64:3)\n    at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:516:9)","timestamp":"2025-08-18T20:13:02.023Z"},{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n    at dZ1._createMessage (file:///C:/Users/Jason/AppData/Local/nvm/v20.18.3/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:950:7955)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)\n    at runNextTicks (node:internal/process/task_queues:64:3)\n    at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:516:9)","timestamp":"2025-08-18T20:22:52.119Z"},{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n    at sP.makeRequest (file:///C:/Users/Jason/AppData/Local/nvm/v20.18.3/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:959:3840)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)\n    at runNextTicks (node:internal/process/task_queues:64:3)\n    at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:545:9)\n    at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:519:7)","timestamp":"2025-08-18T20:25:18.379Z"}]

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