BetaCompactionBlock Class — anthropic-sdk-python Architecture

Architecture documentation for the BetaCompactionBlock class in beta_compaction_block.py from the anthropic-sdk-python codebase.

Class python AnthropicClient

Entity Profile

AnthropicClient→ BetaCompactionBlock Class — anthropic-sdk-python Architecture

Dependency Diagram

graph TD
  45bc31e7_8b22_58b3_dd1d_30336abd100f["BetaCompactionBlock"]
  17ce5647_6f06_0676_a4a5_e378a3f57cb1["BaseModel"]
  45bc31e7_8b22_58b3_dd1d_30336abd100f -->|extends| 17ce5647_6f06_0676_a4a5_e378a3f57cb1
  eeb205f4_56e4_0c7d_ec9a_883c09629c6e["beta_compaction_block.py"]
  45bc31e7_8b22_58b3_dd1d_30336abd100f -->|defined in| eeb205f4_56e4_0c7d_ec9a_883c09629c6e

Relationship Graph

Source Code

src/anthropic/types/beta/beta_compaction_block.py lines 11–22

class BetaCompactionBlock(BaseModel):
    """A compaction block returned when autocompact is triggered.

    When content is None, it indicates the compaction failed to produce a valid
    summary (e.g., malformed output from the model). Clients may round-trip
    compaction blocks with null content; the server treats them as no-ops.
    """

    content: Optional[str] = None
    """Summary of compacted content, or null if compaction failed"""

    type: Literal["compaction"]