My Claude Code Sessions Hit 70MB. So I Built a Distiller.

I had a 4-hour coding session with Claude Code. Felt productive. Fixed a bunch of bugs, refactored a module, reviewed some screenshots Claude took of the UI along the way. Then I tried to --resume it the next day. The session file was 73MB. Claude loaded it, burned through half the context window on old tool outputs and base64-encoded screenshots from yesterday, and started forgetting things I'd said 20 minutes ago. The conversation was fine. The cargo it was dragging around was not. I opened the.