Feature Request: Configurable auto-compact threshold

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Problem Statement

Feature Request: Configurable Auto-Compact Threshold

Problem Statement

Claude Code's automatic context compression only triggers when approaching the hard context limit
(~80-90% usage). This creates several issues:

1. Performance degradation - Large contexts slow down response times significantly before

compression kicks in

1. No proactive management - Users cannot prevent context bloat, only react to it
2. Token waste - Running near-full context consumes more tokens than necessary
3. Autonomous workflows suffer - Long-running tasks (training, monitoring) accumulate context

without user intervention, eventually hitting the wall

1. Manual burden - Users must watch context usage and manually run /compact

Proposed Solution

Add a configurable autoCompactThreshold setting:

{
"autoCompactThreshold": 20
}

Behavior:

• When context usage exceeds threshold, automatically run /compact
• Show brief notification: "Auto-compacted at 20% usage"
• Default: disabled (current behavior preserved)
• Range: 10-90%

Alternative Solutions

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Priority

Medium - Would be very helpful

Feature Category

CLI commands and flags

Use Case Example

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Additional Context

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