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Compaction: when to summarize an agent's history — and when it backfires
Anthropic's compaction API summarizes an agent's history when it hits a token threshold. How it works, the billing pass you don't see, and when it backfires.
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Anthropic's compaction API summarizes an agent's history when it hits a token threshold. How it works, the billing pass you don't see, and when it backfires.