PreCompact

PreCompact is a hook for Claude Code from softspark/ai-toolkit. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of UserPromptSubmit, Apache-2.0.

A pre-compaction hook that runs two save scripts before an AI coding session's context is shortened. Context compaction means reducing earlier conversation details to make room for more work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run pre-compaction and pre-compaction-save commands automatically before context is compacted.
Why use it?
It preserves session information before that shortening happens, reducing the risk of losing useful state or notes.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the ai-toolkit plugin — 115 skills, 44 agents, 14 hooks shipped together

One of 14 entries in hooks.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 13 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Use it to run pre-compaction and pre-compaction-save commands automatically before context is compacted.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add softspark/ai-toolkit
Claude Code
/plugin install ai-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 115 skills, 44 agents, 14 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 81% 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 1mo 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

81% identical to UserPromptSubmit — 6 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.

app/claude-app/hooks/hooks.json · 22 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreCompact": [
    {
      "matcher": "",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "AI_TOOLKIT_DIR=\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}\" \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/pre-compact.sh\""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "matcher": "",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "AI_TOOLKIT_DIR=\"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}\" \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/pre-compact-save.sh\""
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 1mo ago First seen · 22 lines scan A b85c307a149c

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PreCompact is a hook published in the GitHub repository softspark/ai-toolkit (181 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. 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 81% identical to UserPromptSubmit, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.