weighted-compact: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

weighted-compact CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from zzallirog/weighted-compact. It costs 3,490 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for weighted-compact, a system that turns records of Claude Code sessions into shorter, user-specific memory. They explain the repository structure and fixed architectural rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when navigating, modifying, or reasoning about the weighted-compact codebase.
Why use it?
They help an agent find the right files and preserve design rules without reading the entire repository.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is zzallirog/weighted-compact's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on weighted-compact itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything weighted-compact configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to zzallirog/weighted-compact. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zzallirog/weighted-compact/master/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zzallirog/weighted-compact

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.03490 $0.03490
Opus 5.5 $0.01396 $0.01396
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00698 $0.00698
Haiku 4.5 $0.00349 $0.00349

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 410e241283a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

weighted-compact CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

3. `curl http://127.0.0.1:18890/api/progress` — is the labeler alive?
CLAUDE.md · 307 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 307 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — weighted-compact root

Navigator for this repo. If you are Claude (or any LLM assistant) reading this checkout, read this file first and then jump to the relevant subdir. Do not read every file — use the map below.

Repo version: v0.3.0a1 (alpha; baseline run 2026-05-21) Status: alpha — the prior beta label was premature. Architectural invariants locked; numbers tunable. The one consumer with a positive, re-checkable result is recap.py (see README); the importance mixture has no measured fidelity edge and is documented as such.


Substrate framing

weighted-compact is not a compression tool. It is a substrate for self-distillation from your own Claude Code sessions.

The user's ~/.claude/projects/ already contains a record of every correction they pushed back on, every number they had to restate, every constraint the model lost track of. weighted-compact reads those files, runs them through a pipeline of measurable modules (extract_pairs → feature_extract → importance mixture → reconstruction-QA), and returns a compact memory shaped by the user's vocabulary, corrections, and reasoning.

Each module is a defined black box: known input, known output, documented in its own file. The boxes are replaceable independently. The quality metric driving development is reconstruction fidelity (can the compacted context answer questions about what was hidden from it?), not compression ratio.

If you are an LLM reading this repo to answer a question or make a change:

  • The framing is "substrate" and "distillation", not "compressor" or "summarizer"
  • The pipeline is a sequence of black boxes; treat them as independent
  • The locked invariants (vectors-first, CAPTCHA labeling, no-harness-dep) are in the section below — do not propose changes that violate them

TL;DR in 30 seconds

  • What this is: a trainable substrate that compacts Claude Code conversation history using vectors first, classifier as a refinement layer, with a CAPTCHA-style labeler for human-in-the-loop tuning.
  • Architecture: three independent layers — substrate (extract_pairs + feature_extract over ~/.claude/projects/) → importance mixture (six signals composed continuously, plus a topic-decay multiplier on top) → reconstruction-QA (compression-fidelity gate, default local gemma3 judge with Sonnet 4.6 ground-truth calibration runs reported in docs/05-roadmap.md). Each layer disables cleanly if its dependencies are missing.
  • Where it runs: localhost only, FastAPI on :18890, no external services.
  • Privacy: substrate carries raw conversation text. Stays under $XDG_DATA_HOME/weighted-compact/, gitignored, never uploaded.

Read the full file on GitHub · 307 lines

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.

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weighted-compact CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zzallirog/weighted-compact (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,490 tokens to every session, about $0.0140 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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