PreCompact

PreCompact is a hook for Claude Code from oalders/kitchen-sink. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of Notification, MIT.

A pre-compaction hook runs a shell check just before the agent's conversation context is shortened. It checks whether a command is available, then optionally sends information to Clodhopper.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for running a last-minute shell command before context compaction, such as sending data to Clodhopper from the kitchen-sink project.
Why use it?
It lets a project save or process context before older conversation details are removed. If Clodhopper is unavailable or the command fails, the check continues without stopping.

Hook for Claude Code

Part of the kitchen-sink plugin — 9 skills, 20 commands, 12 hooks shipped together

One of 13 entries in settings.json — they are configured in one file and arrive together.

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/oalders/kitchen-sink/pre-compact
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oalders/kitchen-sink

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kitchen-sink, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 20 commands, 12 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. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to Notification — 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 · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreCompact": [
    {
      "hooks": [
        {
          "command": "is there clodhopper && clodhopper ingest --source-app kitchen-sink 2>/dev/null || true",
          "timeout": 5,
          "type": "command"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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 · 13 lines scan A 7775c23c3c3d

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PreCompact is a hook published in the GitHub repository oalders/kitchen-sink (4 stars, last pushed 4d 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 92% identical to Notification, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.