strategic-compact

A guide that suggests manually shortening the agent’s working context at logical points during a task. Context is the information the agent can keep available while working.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps decide when to compact context between phases such as planning, implementation, review, and handoff.
Why use it?
It helps preserve important information during long tasks by reducing accumulated context at task boundaries.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/deepelementlab/clawcode/strategic-compact
Any agent
npx skills add deepelementlab/clawcode --skill strategic-compact
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deepelementlab/clawcode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 872 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00027 $0.00872
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00436
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00087

Measured 2d ago against content hash bab8749c0446, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

strategic-compact scanned grade B 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (suggest-compact.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

Add to your `~/.claude/settings.json`:
clawcode/plugin/builtin_plugins/clawcode-skills/skills/strategic-compact/SKILL.md · 103 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 103 lines · 27 tokens per session scan B bab8749c0446

Subscribe to this mod's changes

strategic-compact is a skill published in the GitHub repository deepelementlab/clawcode (162 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 872 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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