Check and Compact Your Context Window
You've been working on the climate analysis project for a while and you have a feeling the context is getting pretty full. Before starting a new task, check what's consuming context and compact the session to free up room without losing the thread of your work.
The team's project is already in your working directory at /home/repl/climate-analysis/.`.
This exercise is part of the course
Claude Code 101
Exercise instructions
- Start Claude Code with
claude. - Ask Claude to explain each function in
analyze.pyin detail (this adds content to the context window). - Run
/contextto see a breakdown of what's currently using up context space. - Run
/compactto summarize the session and reclaim that space. - When done, type
/exitto exit Claude Code.
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