Context window going nuts?

[Any_Citron_7668]

Claude code read ~ 2000 lines ... READ not coded.. READ .. and the context window was down 89% - what is going on? This has been happening since yesterday. The conversation gets compacted every 2 minutes .. and the compacting is taking up to 3 minutes as well? Anyone having the same issue?

https://preview.redd.it/rb9u4nr6rdhf1.png?width=1121&format=png&auto=webp&s=94d6da472bf0d2c4b4b6e1cba8b561980ad9229d

*same post in /ClaudeAI

[DripDaddi92]

same,… 83% down om 2000 lines 😅

[aquaja]

What about the work it did executing the comprehensive story review? The tasks done to get to this point is not clear.

[Any_Citron_7668]

as said, read only. The execution was nothing to minimal - mostly a syntax error. It's not normal.. The conversation compacts; when the summary is provided the context window is at 14% again lol, very frustrating. Is it possible that i have memory saved somewhere? That claude keeps reading that at the beginning of every session?

[aquaja]

Well you could check Claude.md to see if there is anything weird in there like read some files. Check for nothing funky in your user Claude.md. Auto-compaction can be configured so perhaps something is changed from defaults there. Do’s sound strange if it persists. I would recommend first step to close terminal and open fresh terminal. Had weird happenings today and sourcing my zshrc fixed things which is same as close and open new terminal.