claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix [Feature Request] User-configurable autocompact threshold for context fill percentage [1 participants]

Bug Description Feature request: user-configurable autocompact threshold

I want a setting (env var or settings.json key) that lets me control at what context fill % autocompact triggers. Today the threshold + ~33k buffer is hardcoded.

Why this matters — concrete pain: On Opus 4.7 (1M context), I observe severe quality degradation past ~150k tokens on complex tasks: coding, product strategy, marketing analysis. Worse, the model starts taking dangerous, careless actions I never asked for:

• deleting/removing users
• revoking API tokens
• imprecise / wrong actions in agent-browser sessions

This is a real safety problem, not a vibes complaint. Going past 200k tokens is genuinely risky for me.

My current workaround: I anxiously watch /context and manually /compact around 120–150k tokens. This is fragile — one distracted moment and the model is already in the danger zone before I notice.

Ask: expose a knob like autoCompactThreshold: 0.15 (or env var) so users on large-context mode compact aggressively early, well before quality cliffs and unsafe-action regimes. The default can stay where it is; this is purely opt-in.

Closed as duplicates: #15435, #12053 — but neither shipped a solution. Please reconsider; for power users on 1M-context models the current behavior is actively unsafe.

Environment Info

• Platform: darwin
• Terminal: vscode
• Version: 2.1.138
• Feedback ID: 8ebca5c3-8c4d-4d7d-aa9a-b4bf48ffb002