| > Does Claude leverage the trailers automatically, or is usage initiated by you? Trailers hint is in my global CLAUDE.md so it knows: when debugging, saying something like "didn't we already discuss this in a previous session?" it will know what to look for. I also have a manually invoked `/search-session-transcripts` that I can use to natural-language inspect previous session by day, project, session id etc. Claude often uses this skill to narrow down on parts of the conversation that are relevant to the current query. > How often are you using the trailer lookups? Mondays are usually the day I need to refer to previous sessions from the week before. Trailer lookups are also good for continuing buildout of adjacent features. They've also been excellent in incident post-mortems where the PR text and commit message aren't enough to gauge the "how" of decisions that led to issues. > Any idea how this relates to token usage? I tested this. Session-transcripts are append-only so `/clear` and `/compact` don't clear out old messages, they stay stable and accessible. I also don't clean out my `~/.claude/sessions` ever so there's a lot in there, but the info is valuable and cheap. |