compact

compact is a command for coding agents from tinesoft/spec-kit-token-budget. It costs 65 tokens per session (2,187 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for shortening Spec-Driven Development documents—files that describe software requirements, plans, and tasks—while keeping their important content. It saves the original as a .full.md file the first time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Compacting specification, plan, task, research, data-model, contract, quickstart, or constitution files in an active feature branch.
Why use it?
Long project documents use more text than later commands need, which can make those commands consume more tokens. This removes repeated examples and filler while preserving requirements and decisions.

Command

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/tinesoft/spec-kit-token-budget/compact
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tinesoft/spec-kit-token-budget

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.

agentmods badge for compact

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 65 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,187 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00065 $0.02187
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01094
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00437
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00219

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2b9c66ea6fe3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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.

commands/compact.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/speckit.token-budget.compact

The user has invoked /speckit.token-budget.compact with arguments: $ARGUMENTS.

Your task

Compact one or more SDD artifacts in the active feature so that downstream spec-kit commands consume fewer tokens, without losing any requirement, decision, contract, ID, user story, or acceptance criterion.

Inputs

  1. Resolve the active feature directory (typically specs/<NNN-feature-name>/) from the current git branch using the existing spec-kit conventions. If the user is not on a feature branch, ask which feature to operate on and stop.

  2. Parse $ARGUMENTS:

    • empty → compact every artifact in the active feature directory.
    • spec | plan | tasks | research | data-model | contracts | quickstart | constitution → compact only that one (or that group, in the case of contracts). When the target is constitution, compact both specs/<feature>/constitution.md (if it exists in the active feature) and .specify/memory/constitution.md (if it exists at the project root). Either may be absent; skip silently if so.
    • a relative or absolute path → compact that file.
    • --level=light|medium|aggressive → override the configured level for this run only.
    • --dry-run → report what would change, write nothing.
  3. Load token-budget-config.yml from the extension directory if present, otherwise use the template defaults. The keys you care about are: compact.level, compact.preserve_sections, compact.drop_sections, compact.preserve_code_blocks, compact.preserve_id_patterns, compact.keep_full_backup.

Algorithm — apply in order, per artifact

Step 1 — Backup

If keep_full_backup is true and <artifact>.full.md does not yet exist, copy the current artifact to <artifact>.full.md. Never overwrite an existing backup. The backup is the source of truth for re-compaction at a different level later.

Step 1b — Guard injection (skipped for --dry-run)

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 202 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 2b9c66ea6fe3

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compact is a command published in the GitHub repository tinesoft/spec-kit-token-budget (7 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 2,187 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.