Comment by yumraj

15 hours ago

> Since Claude Code uses a 1 hour prompt cache window for the main agent, if you leave your computer for over an hour then continue a stale session, it's often a full cache miss. To improve this, we have shipped a few UX improvements (eg. to nudge you to /clear before continuing a long stale session), and are investigating defaulting to 400k context instead

I don’t understand this. I frequently have long breaks. I never want to clear or even compact because I don’t want to lose the conversations that I’ve had and the context. Clearing etc causes other issues like I have to restate everything at times and it misses things. I do try to update the memory which helps. I wish there was a better solution than a time bound cache

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cowwoc2020  14 hours ago

Makes me wish that shortly before the server-side expiration, we could save the cache on the client-side, indefinitely.

But my understanding is that we're talking about ~60GB of data per session, so it sounds unrealistic to do...

  • yumraj  9 hours ago

    Where are you getting 60GB from? It shouldn’t be that large.

    But yes, would love to save context/cache such that it can be played back/referred to if needed.

    /compact is a little black box that I just have to trust that is keeping the important bits.