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by nojs 352 days ago
The best approach is never to get remotely close to the point where it auto-compacts. Type /clear often, and set up docs, macros etc to make it easy to built the context you need for new tasks quickly.

If you see that 20% remaining warning, something has gone badly wrong and results will probably not get better until you clear the context and start again.