PreCompact

A hook that runs before Claude Code shortens its working context, meaning the amount of conversation it can keep in view. It runs a handoff script when a curated handoff is available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run the supplied handoff script automatically before context compaction.
Why use it?
It helps preserve selected work context before older conversation details are compacted.

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/sting25/claude-code-handoff/pre-compact
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sting25/claude-code-handoff
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 2d 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

91% identical to SessionEnd — 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.

hooks/hooks.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreCompact": [
    {
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "bash \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/write_handoff.sh\" --if-curated >/dev/null 2>&1 || true",
          "timeout": 60
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 2d ago First seen · 13 lines scan A ec55dc7732a9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

PreCompact is a hook published in the GitHub repository Sting25/claude-code-handoff (4 stars, last pushed 3d 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 SessionEnd, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.