A Builder Cut a Third Off Their Claude Code Token Burn by Having Apple Intelligence Write Session Handoffs Overnight

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The poster audited where their weekly limit was going and found roughly a third was re-reads: unchanged files read again and old chats pulled into new ones. Their fix runs Apple Intelligence locally over the transcript on disk after each chat finishes, writing a handoff file at zero token cost. Their argument against /compact is precise: compact writes the summary with the paid model mid-chat, after the bloat has already billed you on every prior message. A commenter raised the real failure mode, handoffs going stale by the third session, and suggested trusting one only if git shows it touched files later than the ones it names.