compact-at

compact-at is a command for Claude Code from mishahanin/heading-os. It costs 17 tokens per session (333 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that sets the token-use threshold at which the current session should compact its context, meaning it shortens older conversation details to make room for more work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a number, status, or off to set, inspect, or disable the session's compaction threshold.
Why use it?
It lets the operator control when context compaction happens instead of relying on an unknown default.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is Bash(python scripts/checkpoint-paths.py:*), Bash(python3 scripts/checkpoint-paths.py:*).

Good fit Use it with a number, status, or off to set, inspect, or disable the session's compaction threshold.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mishahanin/heading-os
agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/mishahanin/heading-os/compact-at

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 333 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00017 $0.00333
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00167
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00033

Measured 7d ago against content hash d3be98ceb591, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compact-at 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 7d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/commands/compact-at.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Set the compaction threshold for THIS session. Do nothing else.

The argument is $ARGUMENTS. Read the first token only.

  1. If the token is a whole number, status, or off, run that command:
python scripts/checkpoint-paths.py --compact-at <token>
  1. If the argument is empty, run the status command:
python scripts/checkpoint-paths.py --compact-at status
  1. If the token is anything else, print one line: usage: /compact-at N|status|off. Run no command.

Report the command output in one line. Then stop.

The command refuses a number outside 15-90, and refuses one at or below the session's last rendered fill.

An accepted number also turns unattended on, which turns auto on with it, so one command is enough and the hook compacts at the threshold instead of asking. A refusal raises nothing, and status and off raise nothing. When the mode is already on the command leaves the running stretch alone. Only the operator lowers it, with /unattended off.

Do NOT write a checkpoint file. Do NOT run /compact. Do NOT continue any task.

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. 7d ago First seen · 38 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A d3be98ceb591

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compact-at is a command published in the GitHub repository mishahanin/heading-os (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 333 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.