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Public story · 2026-03-18 · source-backed
The Compaction API enables server-side context summarization for effectively infinite conversations without context limits, available on Opus 4.6. MCP servers can now request structured input mid-task — interactive dialogs with text fields, dropdowns, and checkboxes — via new Elicitation hooks. Both target the primary failure modes of long-horizon agents: context overflow and mid-task ambiguity. Anthropic
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