HELPER 04 · COMPACT GAMBLE

How much context survives /compact?

Claude picks what to keep. You never see what was dropped. Drag the slider to see the gamble.

Real compactions are not uniform — one load-bearing decision lost counts more than ten redundant ones kept.

Context fidelity before and after compaction Two horizontal bars. Before-compact shows 100 percent fidelity in the cache color. After-compact shows a kept segment in the cache color and a lost segment in the cost color with hatching. The proportions update live as the slider moves. Before compact every turn intact 100% After compact 60% kept (summarized) 40% lost 0 50% 100% Share of original context
Kept
60%
Lost
40%
Recoverable
0%