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What /clear Actually Resets
You've been running Claude Code all morning across three unrelated tasks and want a clean start before your next one.
Which of the following best describes what running /clear actually
does?
Solution
The correct answer is "Starts a fresh conversation and resets the
/usage session totals."
/clear discards the current conversation entirely rather than
summarising it, so none of the earlier tasks' context carries over —
and because /usage tracks totals per session, that counter resets
along with it. It is not a screen-only clear (the conversation itself
is gone, not just what's displayed), it doesn't compact history
the way /compact does, and it has nothing to do with pausing
auto-compaction, which is a separate mechanism entirely.
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