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.
npx agentmods add commands/gastownhall/beads/compactgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gastownhall/beadsWhat 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 | $0.00008 | $0.00277 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00138 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00002 | $0.00055 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00028 |
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 yesterday.
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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- compact — 92% identical, 4 lines differ
What it actually says
Reduce database size by summarizing closed issues no longer actively referenced.
Compaction Tiers
- Tier 1: Semantic compression (30+ days closed, ~70% size reduction)
- Tier 2: Ultra compression (90+ days closed) — planned, not yet implemented
Usage
- Preview candidates:
bd admin compact --dry-run - Compact all eligible:
bd admin compact --all - Compact specific issue:
bd admin compact --id bd-42 - Force compact:
bd admin compact --id bd-42 --force(bypass age checks) - View statistics:
bd admin compact --stats
Options
- --tier: Choose compaction tier (1 or 2, default: 1)
- --workers: Parallel workers (default: 5)
- --batch-size: Issues per batch (default: 10)
Important
This is permanent graceful decay - original content is discarded. Use bd restore <id> to view full history from git if needed.
Useful for long-running projects to keep database size manageable.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 32 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 520441750532
compact is a command published in the GitHub repository gastownhall/beads (26,754 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 277 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 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.
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