PreCompact

A hook that runs a shell script before the coding agent’s conversation context is shortened. Context compaction is the process of reducing older conversation details so work can continue within a size limit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run the project’s cub-hook.sh script automatically before context compaction.
Why use it?
It gives the project a chance to save or prepare information before earlier context is removed. Without such a step, useful temporary state may be lost when the conversation becomes too long.

Hook for Claude Code

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/lavallee/cub/pre-compact
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lavallee/cub

Made for: Claude Code.

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 91% 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

91% identical to PostToolUse — 2 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.

.claude/settings.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreCompact": [
    {
      "matcher": "*",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/.cub/scripts/hooks/cub-hook.sh",
          "timeout": 10
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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 1a4ab32dd421

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PreCompact is a hook published in the GitHub repository lavallee/cub (5 stars, last pushed 6mo 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 91% identical to PostToolUse, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.