FRESH: A Meter That Tells You When to Start a New Claude Chat
Every message you send makes Claude re-read your whole chat, and long chats get worse answers. This free meter sits at the bottom of Claude Code, stays green while you are fine, and turns red when it is time for a fresh chat. One prompt to paste, the exact steps, and the catch
Why you should care
- Claude does not remember your chat the way you do. Every time you send a message, Claude Code sends the whole conversation again. Anthropic's costs page says so: it sends your full conversation with every request.
- That is why a one-line question in a chat that has been open all day still uses your limit for the whole chat.
- Long chats also get worse answers. Anthropic calls it context rot: as the amount of text in a chat grows, accuracy and recall degrade.
- A fresh chat is free. The costs page says /clear costs nothing.
The problem is you cannot see any of this happening. So this guide gives you a meter. It sits at the bottom of Claude Code. Green means keep going. Red means start a fresh chat. Claude Code builds it for you from one sentence, and there is nothing to install.
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The rest of this guide (5 more sections, 3 copy-paste prompts) opens right here. The setup prompt, one paste into Claude that sets it all up, comes by email only. Use your real address.
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