5 Token-Saving Habits From 3 Months With Claude Code

EDIBLOG · Phase 2-1 · 3-Month Retrospective

Hi, I'm Eddie. After 3 months running blog automations, I settled on 5 token-saving habits. Honestly — I broke each one at least once before they stuck . This is the first deep dive I promised in the CLAUDE.md memory index post.

The 5 habits: /compact , agent split, /clear , CLAUDE.md split, 3 Skills.

01 — /compact : press it on the alert, judge by the next answer

Bottom line. I learned /compact fires when the context alert appears. The way I see it, it summarizes and compresses the conversation to free up token space. It is not lossless.

My take after 3 months: "Sometimes I lose things. When critical info disappears, the next answer can go off the rails."

My pattern — see the alert, run /compact , ask one question, and if it looks wrong I /clear and restart. No blind trust.

I think being honest about limits is the better move. I accepted that compaction is not lossless .…