strategic-compact

A workflow for keeping an autonomous coding agent’s important progress in durable files when its conversation context is automatically shortened, or compacted.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing checkpoints and recording evidence so an agent can continue multi-phase work without asking the user for input during automatic compaction.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of losing decisions, progress, file paths, commands, or test results during long multi-step tasks.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,404 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 $0.00034 $0.01404
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00702
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00140

Measured 2d ago against content hash bcf08417aaf7, 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/strategic-compact/SKILL.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Strategic Compact (OpenCode) — Autonomous Agent Edition

Purpose

This skill ensures that automatic compaction does not break an agent’s flow.

CRITICAL: compaction is treated as a background checkpoint:

  • It can happen at any time near phase boundaries or context pressure.
  • The agent must proactively encode durable state so compaction is always safe.
  • The agent must not ask the user for confirmation just because compaction might occur.

This skill is about compaction-readiness, not manual compaction.


Operating Rules (Non-Negotiable)

  1. Never require user input for compaction.

    • Do not ask “Should I compact?” or “Do you want a checkpoint?”
    • Assume compaction is automatic and proceed.
  2. Never rely on chat history as the only source of truth.

    • If something must survive compaction, it must be recorded in files (or a dedicated session log) as durable state.
  3. Prefer compaction-safe boundaries.

    • A compaction boundary is “safe” only when work is in a stable sub-state (see “Stability Conditions”).
  4. Always include evidence.

    • Record file paths, commands run, and results (tests/build output summary). If unknown, write “unknown”.

Stability Conditions

Compaction is considered safe when ALL are true:

  • Work is not mid-refactor with broken code paths (or the refactor scope is bounded and documented).
  • The current goal and plan are written down durably.
  • Key decisions/assumptions are explicitly recorded.
  • There is a clear next-action checklist.

If conditions are not met, the agent must stabilize first:

  • Finish the smallest coherent chunk
  • Or save a WIP plan + current diff summary + immediate next steps into durable state

Durable State Checklist (Write This Before Any Likely Boundary)

The agent should maintain a single “durable state” artifact during long work:

  • ./docs/dev/session-log.md (repo-local)

MUST at minimum, record:

  • Current goal
  • Current phase (research / plan / implement / test / debug)
  • Key decisions & constraints
  • Files touched / to be touched
  • Commands run + results (summary)
  • What worked / didn’t work
  • Next steps checklist (concrete, executable)

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 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. 2d ago First seen · 250 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A bcf08417aaf7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

strategic-compact is a skill published in the GitHub repository fmflurry/settings-opencode (171 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,404 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.