Folding Away a 54-Minute Break Before the Cache Expires──How Claude Code v2.1.299 Preemptively Cut the Cost of the "Comeback Hit" in Long Sessions
Claude Code v2.1.299's new "idle compaction" automatically compresses conversations over 200K tokens after about 54 minutes of inactivity—before the one-hour prompt cache expires—preemptively avoiding a full re-read on return. MCP permissions were also tightened at the same time.


