PreCompact

PreCompact is a hook for Claude Code from superbasedapp/observer. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, no licence file.

An observer hook that runs before the agent's conversation context is shortened.

In plain words
What is it for?
Tracking or handling context-compaction events.
Why use it?
It lets an observer react before earlier context is compacted and may no longer be fully available.

Hook for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the superbased plugin — 24 hooks shipped together

One of 24 entries in hooks.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 23 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Tracking or handling context-compaction events.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add hooks/superbasedapp/observer/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/superbasedapp/observer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superbased, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 hooks.

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README.md
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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 unknown 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 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.

plugins/claude-code/superbased/hooks/hooks.json · 13 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 13 lines scan A 6fbde695dfc5

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PreCompact is a hook published in the GitHub repository superbasedapp/observer (50 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. 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.