Feature: Max turns before compact

[gerrywastaken]

I've seen --max-turns but really that's not what I want, I want to be able to control the autoCompact so that I can set how many messages are loaded into the history before compacting. I don't need it to reach 95% of the context before compacting.

Today I noticed the response from one of my sessions: num_turns=231

[CLAUDE RAW MESSAGE] ResultMessage(
  subtype='success',
  duration_ms=213207,
  duration_api_ms=162411,
  is_error=False,
  num_turns=231,
  total_cost_usd=0.6639560999999999,
  usage={
    input_tokens: 156,
    cache_creation_input_tokens: 55539,
    cache_read_input_tokens: 679910,
    output_tokens: 2136,
    server_tool_use: {
        web_search_requests: 0
    },
    service_tier: 'standard'
  },
  result='No response requested.'
)

I was surprised and that is far more than I had expected. Unfortunately, I have no insight into what point autocompacts happened. It would be great to be able to control this to reduce the resources used and speed up responses.

[gerrywastaken]

It looks like a similar/related feature was asked for on the claude-code repo: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/3351

[dimsky]

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