Glossary · term04 of 202
/clear
A Claude Code command that discards the current session's context entirely, used to start a fresh window after repeated corrections have polluted the old one.
also written as /clear command · clear
Related terms
/btwA Claude Code command for routing a side discussion so it never enters the main session history, keeping the primary context window free of tangents.view termcompactionA billed request that reads an entire conversation history and replaces it with a shorter summary. The read itself counts as full input tokens, so compacting often costs more upfront than it saves unless the summary gets reused many times.view termcontext poisoningA failed attempt or wrong answer left sitting in a conversation keeps competing for attention on every later turn, dragging output back toward the same mistake even after correction.view term
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- mar 2026
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