strategic-compact

strategic-compact is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins. It costs 58 tokens per session (684 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A context-management guide suggests when to shorten a long coding-agent conversation. Context is the information the agent can keep in its working conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for choosing safe points to compact after exploration, milestones, completed debugging, or a switch to another task.
Why use it?
It helps avoid automatic shortening at a bad moment, which can remove decisions or debugging details still needed for the task.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the strategic-compact plugin — 1 skill shipped 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 skills/anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins/strategic-compact
Any agent
npx skills add anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins --skill strategic-compact
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install strategic-compact, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 684 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00058 $0.00684
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00342
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00068

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3bfefbf7d892, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strategic-compact 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 5d 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.

strategic-compact/skills/strategic-compact/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Strategic Compact

Intelligent context management that suggests compaction at optimal moments.

Core Principle

Manual compaction at strategic points > Auto-compaction at arbitrary points

Auto-compact triggers at context limits, often mid-task. Strategic compaction preserves context through logical phases and compacts at natural transition points.

When to Suggest Compaction

Optimal Compaction Points

Trigger Reason
Exploration complete, implementation starting Exploration context rarely needed for coding
Milestone completed Clean slate for next phase
Plan finalized and documented Plan captured, context can reset
Debug session resolved Debug traces clutter future work
Switching to unrelated task Previous context not relevant
50+ tool calls in session Accumulated context likely stale

Avoid Compaction During

Scenario Why
Mid-implementation Loses code context and decisions
Active debugging Loses diagnostic information
Incomplete task May need earlier context
Code review in progress Loses review thread

Compaction Options

/compact (Quick)

  • Built-in summarization
  • Frees context immediately
  • May lose some nuance

/handoff (Recommended for complex work)

Creates HANDOFF.md with:

  • Current goal and progress
  • What worked / what didn't
  • Next steps
  • Key decisions made

Then start fresh with: > HANDOFF.md

/clear (Fresh start)

  • Complete reset
  • Best when switching tasks entirely

Phase Detection Patterns

Detect phase transitions by monitoring:

EXPLORATION → IMPLEMENTATION
- Many Read/Grep/Glob calls → Edit/Write calls starting
- Questions answered → Code being written

IMPLEMENTATION → TESTING
- Edit/Write heavy → Bash(test) calls
- Feature code done → Verification starting

DEBUGGING → RESOLUTION
- Error investigation → Fix confirmed working
- Multiple attempts → Success achieved

Automatic Behavior

This skill works with hooks that:

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 112 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 3bfefbf7d892

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strategic-compact is a skill published in the GitHub repository anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins (6 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 684 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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