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Claude Developers: Claude Code now gzips the conversation it sends each turn, and cloud sessions start as soon as you begin typing
Posted on X by Claude Developers (@ClaudeDevs) on 16 October 2026. The headline is our summary; the post itself is quoted below.
Claude Developers@ClaudeDevs ·
We keep improving performance across Claude, and you may have noticed it starts responding sooner! Claude Code now gzips the conversation it sends on every…
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Context
- Claude Code 2.1.302Released the same day (UTC). Added CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_MODE_MODEL to choose the model the client-side auto mode classifier uses; it does not change the model for server-side auto mode · and more
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