Anthropic coding agent's compaction enabled remotely without user notice or opt-in

A bug report filed against Anthropic's coding agent says compaction was turned on remotely without any notification or opt-in from users. The same week produced related reports, including memory files not reloading after resume, decisions lost between sessions, and a plugin's compaction call being refused in the desktop app. The author argues these share one root cause: because the agent's memory lives inside the runtime, whoever controls the runtime decides what is kept or dropped. The writer, who builds a local-first memory layer for agents, proposes writing durable records before any compaction occurs.
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