Provide users with the ability to choose when to compact, allowing them to save learned information and work done before initiating the compaction process. The current behavior seems to have removed this choice.
### Preflight Checklist - [x] I have searched [existing requests](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20label%3Aenhancement) and this feature hasn't been requested yet - [x] This is a single feature request (not multiple features) ### Problem Statement I want to be able to compact when I'm ready... When I had a choice, I could tell Claude to save everything we learned and what was done, etc., and compact... But now idk if it updated or what, but now it's back to limiting me to compact, making Claude forget stuff without having a warning when compact is about to happen. It's very stressful when you're diving deep with Claude code to debug stuff and everything, and then you have no choice but to compact... take this feature off... It's very annoying... and I have the max version as well... That's very annoying for the 100-dollar package. Please fix this. ### Proposed Solution I want to be able to compact when I'm ready... When I had a choice, I could tell C