I do rocket-science stuff, and benefit from spending hours crafting my chat, and get excellent results, then the dreaded “Chat context summarized” shows up, and wipes out all my hours of work, and Claude goes back to being an in-the-dark idiot. I use “duplicate chat” as much as possible to try avoi…

100% agreed! This is so annoying… I literally built a big feature that requires having many files in the model’s context for each step in the chat… so I’m building the context brick by brick, then this “Chat context summarized“ step made the model completely lose memory of the details that it was a…

I’ve been railing against this for months – they’re not inclined. I thought there was a brief moment of respite with it prompting “Summarize to continue” but alas, no, that went away in the last update. It is beyond infuriating. If I go back in my chat history to re-run the previous command it wo…

Totally agree - “Chat context summarized” MUST NOT BE FORCED BY CURSOR without explicit permission from user. This “feature“ is a total disaster. It ruins the days of your work!!! Please, make it OPTIONAL!

[image] Yahor Tsaryk: make it OPTIONAL [2026-01-24_05-43-53]

Have you actually tested that? I notice that compression kicks when when >50% of my context is used - which is mad-annoying, because it’s wasting half the context every time! I’d rather have an expensive smart model “get it right”, than a “crippled by compression” model mess it up and make me have…

If you “duplicate chat”, I notice it tends to also do compression sooner, so there’s some back-end bugs with this as well… might be related to cache-pricing discounts or something… but like I said before - I value accuracy over cost every time! I don’t want Cursor “trying to save me money” - I want…

[image] Chris Drake: Have you actually tested that? MAX should work like this. If it doesn’t, file a bug report. In my case, I don’t encounter any context autocompression at all even in normal mode until the context window is really close to being full.

[image] Chris Drake: I value accuracy over cost every time! I don’t want Cursor “trying to save me money” All LLMs except GPT-5.2 lose significant quality as their context window fills. So, if a section of work is complete, it’s best to use /summarize or open a new chat rather than trying to …

[image] Artemonim: All LLMs except GPT-5.2 lose significant quality as their context window fills. So, if a section of work is complete, it’s best to use /summarize or open a new chat rather than trying to manage the entire project in a single chat. I only use Opus-4.5, and that is definitely …

[image] Chris Drake: sounds like someone told you something nobody would really know, and you believed it? This is a known limitation of the attention mechanism in transformer-based LLMs. Believe what you want. [2026-01-24_11-24-21] Yes, this doesn’t mean you need to compress context for e…

How to disable/defer "Chat context summarized." interruptions?

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Artemonim (Artemonim) January 26, 2026, 8:31pm 18

bruh… The Context Used indicator shows the context of the Subagent

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How to disable/defer "Chat context summarized." interruptions?

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