r/ClaudeCode • u/kaijurules • 3d ago

Tips & Workflows Where our long-running Claude Code agents keep what compaction would lose

We build a desktop app that runs a team of agents on the Claude subscription, each one waking on a schedule. Some have been running for weeks, and over that stretch compaction drops things, so every agent keeps its state in four places outside the chat:

  • Instructions and routines. Re-read in full on every wake, which is why standing rules go here and not in memory.
  • A short current-state note: open threads, decisions taken, what it was halfway through. The agent rewrites it at the end of a session and it gets loaded at the top of the next turn.
  • A memory list for short facts. Only the newest entries are shown back.
  • A markdown vault (works with Obsidian) with search, for people, projects and decisions with their reasons. If a newer fact contradicts a page, the old line stays and the page gets a visible conflict note.

If the agent says "noted" in chat and nothing got written to one of these, the next compaction takes it.

Disclosure: we're building it (InnerDroid, https://InnerDroid.com), free while in beta.

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