PreCompact

A command hook that runs a shell script before the coding agent’s conversation context is shortened. The script is `pre-compact.sh`.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run the repository’s preparation step before context compaction, according to the configured shell script.
Why use it?
It gives the project a chance to preserve important working information before older context is removed.

Hook

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 hooks/etr/groundwork/pre-compact
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/etr/groundwork
Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 45% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

PreCompact 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 commands this hook runs, not an audit. A hook is shell that executes on your machine at the event it names, which is why every command in it is printed with what was found.

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

This is a copy

45% identical to SessionStart — 11 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

hooks/hooks.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreCompact": [
    {
      "matcher": "*",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/pre-compact.sh"
        }
      ],
      "description": "Preserves critical skill state before compaction"
    }
  ]
}
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. yesterday First seen · 14 lines scan A 1b55c06af01a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

PreCompact is a hook published in the GitHub repository etr/groundwork (42 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: a hook is shell that never enters the context. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 45% identical to SessionStart, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.