compile

A command that saves the important state of a coding session for the next session or agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the end of a session or after meaningful progress to record the objective, decisions, files, risks, open work, and next command.
Why use it?
Without a durable record, later work may lose decisions, known problems, unfinished tasks, and the next step.

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/megaprompting/torque-loop/compile
Any agent
npx skills add Megaprompting/torque-loop --skill compile
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Megaprompting/torque-loop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 856 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 $0.00074 $0.00856
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00428
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00086

Measured yesterday against content hash c8736dd18213, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compile 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 yesterday.

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/compile/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/ratchet:compile — the state compiler

A session that isn't compiled evaporates. This command writes the breadcrumb: the compact record that lets the next agent — or you after a context reset — resume without re-deriving anything. Persistence has compression discipline: only what changes future behavior survives.

Step 0 — Load current state

ratchet status --json

Extend the existing record; do not overwrite it. For a heavy session, delegate to the ratchet-scribe subagent.

What to serialize (and nothing else)

Save only: decisions, artifacts, defects, open loops, next action, next prompt. Delete interesting-but-nonoperative commentary. If it won't change a future move, it doesn't go in.

  1. Working title — a handle you'd recognize in a list of sessions.
  2. Current objective — the locked target, one line.
  3. Decisions made — actual commitments, with the rejected tempting option and tripwire.
  4. Artifacts created — title, kind, status, path, known holes.
  5. Defects / risks found — severity + summary + status.
  6. Open loops — what's unfinished and what would close it.
  7. Next action — the single immediate move.
  8. Next prompt/command — the exact /ratchet:... to run next.
  9. Retrieval tags — comma-separated handles for future search.
  10. One-sentence memory — the single line worth saving. Make it load-bearing.

Serialize (write it all through the CLI)

ratchet state set title "<working title>"
ratchet state set nextAction "<single next move>"
ratchet state set nextCommand "/ratchet:<command>"
ratchet state append decisions '{"choice":"...","rejected":"...","tripwire":"..."}'   # if any new
ratchet artifact add '{"title":"...","kind":"...","status":"...","holes":["..."]}'    # if any new
ratchet defect add '{"severity":"...","summary":"...","artifact":"<id>"}'              # if any new
ratchet state append openLoops '{"text":"..."}'                                        # if any
ratchet state set phase compile
ratchet compile done

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. yesterday First seen · 86 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A c8736dd18213

Subscribe to this mod's changes

compile is a skill published in the GitHub repository Megaprompting/torque-loop (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 856 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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