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compact is a command for Claude Code from AshishKumar4/better-compact. It costs 21 tokens per session (243 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A command that compacts the current Claude Code session using Better Compact, which removes older tool output and reasoning while keeping every message.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need to shrink and reopen the current session without losing its conversation history.
Why use it?
It helps continue a session that has grown beyond its context limit.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the better-compact plugin — 1 command shipped together

not rated 18repo +2 25d ago A scan 21 tokens AGPL-3.0

Good fit Use it when you need to shrink and reopen the current session without losing its conversation history.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/ashishkumar4/better-compact/compact
View source ↗ AshishKumar4/better-compact
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AshishKumar4/better-compact

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install better-compact, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 command.

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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.

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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 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 243 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 unknown 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00021 $0.00243
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00097
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00024

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 50d52ea2e65b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compact 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.

packages/claude-code/commands/compact.md · 20 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 20 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 50d52ea2e65b

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compact is a command published in the GitHub repository AshishKumar4/better-compact (18 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 243 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 2026-08-30.

Claude Codeaicompactcompactioncontext-engineeringcontext-pruning
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