+1 to creating tickets by simply asking the agent to. It's worked great and larger tasks can be broken down into smaller subtasks that could reasonably be completed in a single context window, so you rarely every have to deal with compaction. Especially in the last few months since Claude's gotten good at dispatching agents to handle tasks if you ask it to, I can plan large changes that span multilpe tickets and tell claude to dispatch agents as needed to handle them (which it will do in parallel if they mostly touch different files), keeping the main chat relatively clean for orchestration and validation work.