compress

compress is a skill for Claude Code from fmflurry/settings-opencode. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,011 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of caveman-compress, MIT.

A tool that shortens Markdown memory files such as CLAUDE.md, task lists, and preference files while keeping their technical content. It saves the original file as a backup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compress an agent memory file, todo list, or preferences file through the provided command.
Why use it?
Long memory files use more input space each time an agent reads them. This reduces that amount while preserving code, links, and structure.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to compress an agent memory file, todo list, or preferences file through the provided command.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fmflurry/settings-opencode/compress
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 fmflurry/settings-opencode --skill compress
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fmflurry/settings-opencode

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,011 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 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00074 $0.01011
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00404
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00101

Measured 1mo ago against content hash dbf396bcf0fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compress 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/__init__.py, scripts/__main__.py, scripts/benchmark.py, …), 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to caveman-compress — 15 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/compress/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Caveman Compress

Purpose

Compress natural language files (CLAUDE.md, todos, preferences) into caveman-speak to reduce input tokens. Compressed version overwrites original. Human-readable backup saved as <filename>.original.md.

Trigger

/caveman:compress <filepath> or when user asks to compress a memory file.

Process

  1. This SKILL.md lives alongside scripts/ in the same directory. Find that directory.

  2. Run:

cd <directory_containing_this_SKILL.md> && python3 -m scripts <absolute_filepath>

  1. The CLI will:
  • detect file type (no tokens)
  • call Claude to compress
  • validate output (no tokens)
  • if errors: cherry-pick fix with Claude (targeted fixes only, no recompression)
  • retry up to 2 times
  1. Return result to user

Compression Rules

Remove

  • Articles: a, an, the
  • Filler: just, really, basically, actually, simply, essentially, generally
  • Pleasantries: "sure", "certainly", "of course", "happy to", "I'd recommend"
  • Hedging: "it might be worth", "you could consider", "it would be good to"
  • Redundant phrasing: "in order to" → "to", "make sure to" → "ensure", "the reason is because" → "because"
  • Connective fluff: "however", "furthermore", "additionally", "in addition"

Preserve EXACTLY (never modify)

  • Code blocks (fenced ``` and indented)
  • Inline code (backtick content)
  • URLs and links (full URLs, markdown links)
  • File paths (/src/components/..., ./config.yaml)
  • Commands (npm install, git commit, docker build)
  • Technical terms (library names, API names, protocols, algorithms)
  • Proper nouns (project names, people, companies)
  • Dates, version numbers, numeric values
  • Environment variables ($HOME, NODE_ENV)

Preserve Structure

  • All markdown headings (keep exact heading text, compress body below)
  • Bullet point hierarchy (keep nesting level)
  • Numbered lists (keep numbering)
  • Tables (compress cell text, keep structure)
  • Frontmatter/YAML headers in markdown files

Compress

  • Use short synonyms: "big" not "extensive", "fix" not "implement a solution for", "use" not "utilize"
  • Fragments OK: "Run tests before commit" not "You should always run tests before committing"
  • Drop "you should", "make sure to", "remember to" — just state the action
  • Merge redundant bullets that say the same thing differently
  • Keep one example where multiple examples show the same pattern

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. 1mo ago First seen · 111 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A dbf396bcf0fc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

compress is a skill published in the GitHub repository fmflurry/settings-opencode (171 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,011 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to caveman-compress, differing in 15 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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