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"Infinite Auto-Compact Loop Causing Performance Degradation" #2222
Description
Bug Description
I'm seeing this Context left until auto-compact: NaN% and it keeps compacting, using up all of my time.
Environment Info
- Platform: linux
- Terminal: wsl-Ubuntu
- Version: 1.0.27
- Feedback ID: bae01ce8-23f0-4fde-bf51-3d568651441c
Errors
[{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n at no._createMessage (file:///home/srowe/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1306:6810)\n at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)","timestamp":"2025-06-17T22:11:18.851Z"},{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n at Tw.makeRequest (file:///home/srowe/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1315:3597)\n at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)","timestamp":"2025-06-17T22:11:18.872Z"},{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n at Tw.makeRequest (file:///home/srowe/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1315:3784)\n at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)","timestamp":"2025-06-17T22:11:36.841Z"},{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n at Tw.makeRequest (file:///home/srowe/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1315:3597)\n at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)","timestamp":"2025-06-17T22:11:36.864Z"}]Reacted by Lars Artmann, NellInc, Alex Crionas, haryoiro, Chris Tabone, gitxuzan, dlee11 and brooksc
Activity
Andre-Profitt commentedon Jun 20, 2025
I second this. i used /clear, and it is stuck on auto-compact loop
LarsArtmann commentedon Jun 21, 2025
This seems to be related to my Issue: #2283 and #2387
LarsArtmann commentedon Jun 21, 2025
Tip
WORK AROUND: Disable auto-compact via
claude config set -g autoCompactEnabled falseand/compactmanually.It's not great but at least it works (for me).
LarsArtmann commentedon Jun 21, 2025
Another person managed to get it working after a restart. See: #2391 (comment)
nlev8 commentedon Jun 27, 2025
It was resolving on its own a few times but now persists. Restarting VS Code and my computer doesn't help either.
getting this constantly:
API Error (Request timed out.) · Retrying in 1 seconds… (attempt 1/10)
⎿ API Error (Request timed out.) · Retrying in 1 seconds… (attempt 2/10)
⎿ API Error (Request timed out.) · Retrying in 2 seconds… (attempt 3/10)
jleechan2015 commentedon Jun 28, 2025
Seeing this too. Everything seems slow. Even if I disable auto compact performing worse than before this issue
Oxytra commentedon Jul 1, 2025
yes. it seems now its high time switching claude code completely with some other coding agent or degrading max subscription with 20 USD subscription.
LarsArtmann commentedon Jul 16, 2025
Tip
My recommendations so far: #2391 (comment)
Codewow commentedon Aug 25, 2025
Found a workaround. Not sure how detrimental it is to context awareness, but deleting/renaming the settings.local file in the .claude folder fixed the context issues for me. I am guessing the file just got too large for Claude to be able to effectively read because of all the bash commands it stored away that weren't reusable in most cases.
if you want to YOLO it, you can use "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions" to bypass permission prompts (the ones that when saved to the project, fill up the setting.local.json file and ultimately cause the context issue)
But that is absolute last resort and very dangerous to do. Hence the flag name....
github-actions commentedon Dec 7, 2025
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racerx2 commentedon Dec 15, 2025
come on man fix this crap! Paying users out here bro damn!
github-actions commentedon Jan 15, 2026
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github-actions commentedon Jan 23, 2026
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