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You’ve watched Claude Code compact a conversation. The context bar fills, it pauses, a summary appears, and it carries on like nothing happened. You probably assumed a housekeeping script trimmed the transcript in the background. It didn’t. The model compacted itself. When the window fills, Claude Code sends a long, specific prompt telling the model how to summarize its own conversation. Then it does, same model, same turn. The thing managing your context window is just another instruction.

While logging into one’s LinkedIn will spew out endless talk of AI possibilities from “thought leaders” and the semi-disconnected alike, another pocket of the world spent the last few weeks watching the Shai-Hulud worm chew through npm. A self-propagating credential stealer that hit 400-plus packages and, delightfully, planted Claude Code and VS Code hooks so just opening the repo could run its payload.