promptCompressor

promptCompressor is a skill for Claude Code from AlirezaSoltaniJazi/Skillnir. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,567 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule-based tool that shortens prompts while preserving their meaning, technical terms, code, JSON templates, and web addresses. Prompt compression means removing unnecessary words before a prompt is sent to an AI system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compress prompts, measure how much text was removed, improve compression rules, and check that shortened prompts still retain their meaning.
Why use it?
It can reduce the amount of text processed, which may lower token use and API costs. Its fixed rules make the changes predictable and easier to inspect.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to compress prompts, measure how much text was removed, improve compression rules, and check that shortened prompts still retain their meaning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alirezasoltanijazi/skillnir/promptcompressor
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.

Any agent
npx skills add AlirezaSoltaniJazi/Skillnir --skill promptcompressor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlirezaSoltaniJazi/Skillnir

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,567 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00073 $0.01567
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00783
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00157

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1afa669e9164, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

promptCompressor 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 8d 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.

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.

.data/skills/promptCompressor/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Before You Start

Read LEARNED.md first. It contains corrections and conventions from previous sessions.

Announce skill usage. Always say "Using: promptCompressor skill" at the very start of your response.

When to Use

  1. Working on src/skillnir/compressor.py — the core compression module
  2. Debugging or improving compression rules (word sets, phrase replacements)
  3. Analyzing compression ratios on pipeline prompts
  4. Adding new protected zone patterns
  5. Working on the compression toggle in settings
  6. Reviewing whether compressed prompts preserve meaning

Do NOT Use

Architecture

src/skillnir/compressor.py          # Core module — compress_prompt()
src/skillnir/backends.py            # Integration — build_subprocess_command()
src/skillnir/ui/pages/settings.py   # Toggle — compress_prompts config
tests/test_compressor.py            # 38+ unit tests

Data flow: Pipeline prompt string -> build_subprocess_command() -> compress_prompt() -> compressed string -> CLI subprocess

Integration point: Single function build_subprocess_command() in backends.py. Compression is applied transparently when compress_prompts=True in AppConfig.

Compression Algorithm

Applied in order:

  1. Detect protected zones — code blocks, inline code, JSON templates, URLs, file paths, markdown headers
  2. Replace verbose phrases — "in order to" -> "to", "due to the fact that" -> "because" (~30 pairs)
  3. Remove stop words — articles, auxiliaries, intensifiers, fillers (outside protected zones)
  4. Collapse whitespace — normalize spaces and blank lines

Compression Rules

ALWAYS REMOVE

Category Words
Articles a, an, the
Auxiliaries is, are, was, were, am, be, been, being, have, has, had, do, does, did
Intensifiers very, quite, rather, somewhat, really, extremely, essentially, particularly, especially
Fillers currently, basically, actually, simply, just, certainly, definitely, obviously, clearly, literally

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 144 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 1afa669e9164

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promptCompressor is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlirezaSoltaniJazi/Skillnir (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,567 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.

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