compact

compact is a skill for Claude Code from billbuchanan-code/claude-code-power-setup. It costs 13 tokens per session (854 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A context-shortening workflow that creates a tailored /compact instruction while preserving important decisions and removing debugging noise. Context is the information available to the coding agent in a session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect recent files and session artifacts, infer what happened, and prepare a concise handoff before compacting context.
Why use it?
It helps continue a long session without losing key work, decisions, or project state.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to inspect recent files and session artifacts, infer what happened, and prepare a concise handoff before compacting context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/billbuchanan-code/claude-code-power-setup/compact
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add billbuchanan-code/claude-code-power-setup --skill compact
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/billbuchanan-code/claude-code-power-setup

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 854 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 $0.00013 $0.00854
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00342
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00085

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4bce84ec3a7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo 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.

skills/compact/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Smart Compact Instruction Generator

Analyze the current session to generate a tailored /compact instruction that preserves important context and discards noise.

Process

Step 1: Infer Session Contents

You do not have direct access to the conversation history. Instead, infer what happened in the session from available signals:

  1. Check git state: Use Glob and Grep to look at:

    • Files recently modified (check modification times via ls -lt patterns or git status)
    • Any HANDOFF.md or TODO files that describe session work
    • .claude/ directory for any session artifacts
  2. Detect agent delegation patterns: Look for signs that sub-agents were used:

    • Multiple files explored in a short time (breadth-first patterns)
    • Search result files or temporary analysis files
    • Changes across many unrelated directories (suggests parallel agent work)
  3. Detect MCP server usage: Check for:

    • .mcp.json or mcp_config.json files in the project
    • References to external services in recently changed files
    • Configuration files for Slack, GitHub, databases, etc.
  4. Identify key decisions: Look for:

    • New dependencies added (package.json, Cargo.toml, requirements.txt, go.mod changes)
    • New files created (architectural decisions about structure)
    • Configuration file changes (tooling/infrastructure decisions)
    • Pattern choices visible in code (e.g., choosing a specific design pattern)
  5. Identify debugging noise: Look for signs of troubleshooting:

    • Files with many recent modifications (iterative debugging)
    • Test files that were changed multiple times
    • Log or output files
    • Temporary files or scratch work

Step 2: Categorize Context

Sort everything into two categories:

Preserve (high-value context that is expensive to reconstruct):

  • Architecture and design decisions made
  • File paths that were created or significantly modified
  • Agent delegation results (what was found, what was decided)
  • MCP connection states and which servers are active
  • User preferences or constraints stated during the session
  • Working solutions that were arrived at
  • Branch name and what it represents
  • Key relationships between files discovered during exploration

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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. 1mo ago First seen · 104 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 4bce84ec3a7b

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compact is a skill published in the GitHub repository billbuchanan-code/claude-code-power-setup (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 854 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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