condense-feedback

condense-feedback is a skill for Claude Code from shashankreddy509/claude-tdd-kit. It costs 99 tokens per session (2,038 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lossless-by-meaning compression skill for feedback or memory files: it makes the file shorter while keeping every distinct lesson, rule, constant, and reference.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a feedback or memory file has become too large, especially to merge duplicate lessons by theme and rewrite the chosen file in place with a backup.
Why use it?
It reduces repetition in an overgrown file without discarding information that future work may depend on.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: arguments in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the dev-day plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when a feedback or memory file has become too large, especially to merge duplicate lessons by theme and rewrite the chosen file in place with a backup.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shashankreddy509/claude-tdd-kit/condense-feedback
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 shashankreddy509/claude-tdd-kit --skill condense-feedback
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shashankreddy509/claude-tdd-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-day, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,038 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 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 $0.00099 $0.02038
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01019
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00408
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00204

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4ee65c54a69b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

condense-feedback 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/backup-and-measure.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.

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.

dev-day/skills/condense-feedback/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

condense-feedback

Shrink a grown feedback or memory file in place. Lossless-by-meaning: every distinct lesson survives, only the repetition dies.

This is the counterpart to merge-feedback. That skill only ever GROWS a file (append a dated section, never delete, superset-checked). This one is the only thing allowed to shrink it — deliberately separate, because deciding "these two bullets are the same lesson" is a judgment call that can silently lose something, so it is gated behind an explicit invocation and a backup.

Argument: a path to the file. No argument → default to tasks/feedback.md in the current repo (what merge-feedback writes). If that does not exist, ASK which file rather than guessing — this skill rewrites files, and a wrong target is destructive.

When to use

  • The file has many near-duplicate entries on the same theme after a long run of sessions.
  • The user says "too big", "minimize it but keep all the content", "compress this memory file".
  • A memory index is approaching a read limit and needs to fit.

NOT for summarization. This is lossless-by-meaning compression. A future session must be able to avoid every mistake the original file recorded.

Core rule

Preserve every distinct lesson; only repetition dies. Merge points that mean the same thing, drop the narrative retelling, but never delete a unique rule, a unique gotcha, a concrete constant, or a cross-reference.

The test for a merge: two bullets merge only if a future session would take the same action from either one. Similar wording is not the same lesson — "verify a merge from the API" and "verify a deploy by hashing the served bytes" look alike and are different rules. When unsure, keep both. A file that is 5% larger than ideal costs nothing; a dropped lesson costs the mistake it was written to prevent.

Steps

1. Resolve SKILL_DIR, then back up and measure FIRST

Set SKILL_DIR to the absolute path of the directory containing THIS SKILL.md you just Read — your harness reported that path in the Read result. The script is always a direct sibling of this file, in every install layout:

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 167 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 4ee65c54a69b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

condense-feedback is a skill published in the GitHub repository shashankreddy509/claude-tdd-kit (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 2,038 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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