Make Claude Code re-read your plan after every compaction: a SessionStart brief that also warns before a stale resume

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:10:00 +0000

Two hours into a refactor, the context window fills and Claude Code compacts. The summary is decent. It also says nothing about the decision you made at minute 20 not to add a dependency, and the next thing the agent does is propose adding one. Or you hit /clear between tasks, and the fresh session has no idea which branch it’s on, what’s uncommitted, or that a plan exists.

A git snapshot before every prompt: the undo that covers what /rewind skips

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:05:00 +0000

Claude Code 2.1.309, released on 22 October, changed how sed -i behaves: it now gets the standard Bash permission prompt, runs exactly as written, and is no longer restored by /rewind . That last part is the interesting one. If a stray in-place edit mangles forty files, the rewind menu may not know about them.

Session-Hygiene on Tokenise

Make Claude Code re-read your plan after every compaction: a SessionStart brief that also warns before a stale resume

A git snapshot before every prompt: the undo that covers what /rewind skips