Long conversations

When a conversation approaches the model’s context limit, FreeCode folds older turns into a structured summary and keeps the most recent turns verbatim. It fires slightly before the window is full so there is always headroom for the reply, and a PreCompact hook can defer it.

On this page (coming soon)

• When compaction triggers (limit minus a safety buffer)
• What is preserved verbatim and what gets summarized
• The summary’s structure: Goal · Done · In Progress · Blocked · Decisions · Files · Next Steps
• Forcing it early with /compact
• The fallback when the summarizing call fails
• Tuning the knobs — see compaction internals