PreCompact

PreCompact is a hook for coding agents from Xiaoyangy/novel-studio. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of SessionStart, Apache-2.0.

A pre-compaction hook that runs a Python script before the agent's conversation context is shortened, whether manually or automatically.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in a novel-writing project to run story_codex_hook.py before manual or automatic context compaction.
Why use it?
It preserves story-related context before compaction so important project information is less likely to be lost.

Hook

One of 5 entries in hooks.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/xiaoyangy/novel-studio/pre-compact
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Xiaoyangy/novel-studio

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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 SessionStart — 10 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.

skills/story-setup/references/codex/hooks/hooks.json · 16 lines

What it actually says

{
  "PreCompact": [
    {
      "matcher": "manual|auto",
      "hooks": [
        {
          "type": "command",
          "command": "FOUND=; for PYBIN in python3 python py; do \"$PYBIN\" -c \"\" >/dev/null 2>&1 && { FOUND=1; break; }; done; [ -n \"$FOUND\" ] || exit 0; PROJECT_ROOT=\"${CODEX_PROJECT_DIR:-${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-}}\"; if [ -z \"$PROJECT_ROOT\" ] || [ ! -f \"$PROJECT_ROOT/.codex/hooks/story_codex_hook.py\" ]; then SEARCH_DIR=\"$PWD\"; while [ \"$SEARCH_DIR\" != \"/\" ] && [ ! -f \"$SEARCH_DIR/.codex/hooks/story_codex_hook.py\" ]; do SEARCH_DIR=\"$(dirname \"$SEARCH_DIR\")\"; done; PROJECT_ROOT=\"$SEARCH_DIR\"; fi; case \"$PROJECT_ROOT\" in \"\"|/) exit 0;; esac; HOOK=\"$PROJECT_ROOT/.codex/hooks/story_codex_hook.py\"; [ -f \"$HOOK\" ] || exit 0; CODEX_PROJECT_DIR=\"$PROJECT_ROOT\" \"$PYBIN\" \"$HOOK\" pre-compact",
          "timeout": 10,
          "statusMessage": "Summarizing story context",
          "commandWindows": "if exist \".codex\\hooks\\story_codex_hook.py\" python \".codex\\hooks\\story_codex_hook.py\" pre-compact"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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. 4d ago First seen · 16 lines scan A cf3ddb162ae1

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PreCompact is a hook published in the GitHub repository Xiaoyangy/novel-studio (100 stars, last pushed 1mo 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 92% identical to SessionStart, differing in 10 lines, and is treated as a copy.