A command that creates a short handoff document summarizing the current conversation. A handoff lets a future session continue with the goal, decisions, files, unfinished work, next step, and warnings.

Use it when pausing work, changing sessions, or preparing a concise record of what was decided and what remains.

It preserves the useful context of a session so it does not need to be reconstructed from the full conversation later.

compress — Command for Claude Code by Achitokun14/claude-universal

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Achitokun14/claude-universal

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 413 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00016	$0.00413
Opus 5.5	$0.00006	$0.00165
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00083
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00041

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 9faf8a0a9c8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compress scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

user/commands/compress.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Produce a handoff document that captures the essential state of THIS conversation so a future session can pick up without context.

Steps:

Review the conversation and extract:
- Goal: what the user is ultimately trying to accomplish
- Decisions made: concrete choices, not considerations
- Files touched: list with 1-line reason each
- Open threads: unfinished tasks, unresolved questions, blockers
- Next step: the single most useful thing to do next
- Gotchas: anything a future session should be warned about (bugs found, dead ends, misleading signals)

Write to ~/Desktop/ACTIVITIES/llm-wiki/handoffs/$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M)-<slug>.md:

# Handoff: <short title>

**Date:** YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM
**Session duration:** approximate
**Project / cwd:** <path>

## Goal
<1-2 sentences>

## Decisions
- ...

## Files touched
| file | change |
|------|--------|
| path | reason |

## Open threads
- [ ] ...

## Next step
<one concrete action>

## Gotchas
- ...

Also append a pointer line to ~/Desktop/ACTIVITIES/llm-wiki/$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md: - 🗂️ Handoff saved: [<title>](handoffs/YYYYMMDD-HHMM-slug.md)
Print the absolute path of the handoff file to chat so the user can paste it into a new session.

Keep the handoff under 200 lines. Omit anything that can be re-derived from reading the code.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 52 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 9faf8a0a9c8e

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compress is a command published in the GitHub repository Achitokun14/claude-universal (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 413 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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