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Idle compaction for background sessions

“So no setting enables it for local background sessions.”

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Run idle compaction in local background sessions. Idle compaction never runs in sessions started with claude --bg, dispatched from claude agents or woken with claude respawn; the session retires idle after 60m.

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Where
Background sessions
Versions
2.1.299
Platforms
Linux

Original reports1, newest first

  1. Idle compaction for local background sessions (--bg / claude agents / respawn)#103866

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