session-compaction-and-restore

session-compaction-and-restore is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mvschwarz/openrig. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,866 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to preserving an agent’s useful working state when a session loses context, restarts, or is refreshed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design restore packets, decide what information must survive, and distinguish resuming, copying, or rebuilding an agent’s working model.
Why use it?
It helps prevent long-running work from turning into a cold start where the agent forgets the task’s intent and important decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: PreCompact hook event, but also reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the openrig-core plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design restore packets, decide what information must survive, and…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mvschwarz/openrig/session-compaction-and-restore
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 mvschwarz/openrig --skill session-compaction-and-restore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install openrig-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,866 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00088 $0.01866
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00933
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00187

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2e785328d6e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

session-compaction-and-restore 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 7d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

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

Precise nuance: OpenRig *does* write `~/.codex/config.toml` — but only to install
packages/daemon/assets/plugins/openrig-core/skills/session-compaction-and-restore/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session Compaction and Restore

Preserving useful working state across compaction, context loss, restart, or seat refresh. Includes Claude compaction restore, Codex resume/fork mechanics, transcript-based mental-model rebuilds, and durable handoff packets.

Long-lived seats are valuable only if they can survive context pressure. If compaction turns a senior seat into a cold-started agent, users will avoid persistent topologies and fall back to throwaway agents.

Use this when

  • A seat is approaching compaction or just compacted
  • Designing a high-fidelity restore packet for an active workflow
  • Distinguishing native runtime resume vs fork vs artifact-backed mental-model rebuild
  • Reasoning about what should be preserved vs reconstructable
  • Auditing a restore for product-intent preservation (not just detail preservation)

Don't use this when

  • The session is fresh and has no working state to preserve
  • The intent is to create a new seat from a primed source — that's session-source-fork or agent-starters
  • The packet is a one-off snapshot for human review — restore packets are for re-entering active work

The 5 distinctions (do not collapse)

Per the cross-runtime restore/reentry packet standard:

Mode What it means Outcome literal
Native resume Continue the same managed seat with native runtime token resumed
Fork New managed seat from prior native runtime conversation; new post-fork token forked
Rebuild Fresh-launch seeded with operator-declared artifacts in trust-precedence order rebuilt
Artifact-backed mental-model rebuild Restored seat derives understanding from a packet rather than native runtime continuity (case of rebuilt)
Fresh launch New agent without prior continuity fresh

These are load-bearing distinctions. Do NOT collapse fork into artifact-backed reentry; do NOT collapse rebuild into fork.

The three mechanisms — who owns each (verified vs main d37a08ad, 2026-07-21)

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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. 7d ago First seen · 164 lines · 88 tokens per session scan B 2e785328d6e8

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session-compaction-and-restore is a skill published in the GitHub repository mvschwarz/openrig (65 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,866 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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