PreCompact

PreCompact is a hook for Claude Code from mhylle/claude-skills-collection. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-compaction hook that runs checks or reminders before a conversation's context is shortened. Context compaction means reducing earlier messages so work can continue within a limited context window.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for invoking a learning step before compaction and printing reminders to save important context.
Why use it?
It helps preserve useful information and warns that details may be lost when the conversation is condensed.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreCompact hook event.

Part of the devflow plugin — 38 skills, 13 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

One of 5 entries in hooks.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 4 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit It is for invoking a learning step before compaction and printing reminders to save important context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add hooks/mhylle/claude-skills-collection/pre-compact
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mhylle/claude-skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 13 agents, 5 hooks.

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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. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found 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 9d ago.

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.

hooks/hooks.json · 33 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreCompact": [
    {
      "name": "continuous-learning-before-compact",
      "matcher": "*",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "prompt",
          "prompt": "Context is about to be compacted and detail will be lost. Invoke the continuous-learning skill first to capture any reusable patterns from the part of the session that is about to be summarized away."
        }
      ],
      "config": {
        "threshold": 0.7,
        "interactive": false,
        "summary": true,
        "max_patterns": 10,
        "auto_merge": true
      },
      "description": "Extract patterns before compaction loses context (runs the continuous-learning skill)"
    },
    {
      "name": "save-context-before-compact",
      "matcher": "*",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "node -e \"console.error('[Hook] Consider saving context before compaction');console.error('[Hook] Use /context-saver to preserve important state')\""
        }
      ],
      "description": "Remind to save context before compaction"
    }
  ]
}
Same file

What else hooks.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 5. Installing the file brings all of them; each is measured and scanned on its own page.

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. 9d ago First seen · 33 lines scan A ab66c00aa961

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PreCompact is a hook published in the GitHub repository mhylle/claude-skills-collection (18 stars, last pushed 7d 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. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.