context-compression

context-compression is a skill for Claude Code from yeaight7/agent-powerups. It costs 28 tokens per session (630 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for shortening an overloaded AI conversation into a small summary, including the current state, failed approaches, and next step.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps prepare a compact handoff before continuing a debugging or planning task in the same or a new session.
Why use it?
Long transcripts can cause repeated mistakes, forgotten requirements, and important details being buried among old output.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the dev-vitals plugin — 14 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit It helps prepare a compact handoff before continuing a debugging or planning task in the same or a new session.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yeaight7/agent-powerups/context-compression
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 yeaight7/agent-powerups --skill context-compression
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yeaight7/agent-powerups

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-vitals, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 630 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 $0.00028 $0.00630
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00315
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00063

Measured yesterday against content hash 5964a4017d88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-15, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-compression 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.

plugins/dev-vitals/skills/context-compression/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context Compression

When to use

Use when context approaches limits or response quality degrades (repeated mistakes, forgotten constraints, lost-in-the-middle effects) — typically after many turns of debugging or complex planning.

Requirements / Checks

  • Active session contains long stack traces, large file dumps, or multiple failed iterations.

Workflow

  1. Diagnose bloat — identify: redundant outputs (same file read multiple times), contradictory instructions that accumulated over turns, constraint forgetting (earlier requirements no longer respected).

  2. Draft summary — synthesize the current valid state of the code or plan in 3–5 sentences.

  3. Extract anti-patterns — list what failed and why: "Attempted X → failed because Y". These are critical to prevent the next session from looping on the same mistakes.

  4. Generate handoff artifact — write the following template to disk:

    ## Goal
    [One-sentence objective]
    
    ## Current state
    [What is working / what is in place right now]
    
    ## Blocker / next step
    [The exact next action to take]
    
    ## Anti-patterns (do not repeat)
    - Tried X → failed because Y
    - Tried A → blocked by B
    
    ## Key files
    - `path/to/file.ts` — [what it does / why it matters]
    
    ## Open risks
    - [Anything uncertain or requiring verification]
    
    ## Decisions made
    - [Key tradeoffs and why alternatives were rejected]
    
  5. Restart — tell the user to start a new chat session and attach the handoff file as the first message.

Quality Probes

Before finalizing, verify the handoff can answer:

  • Recall: exact commands, errors, versions, decisions that still matter.
  • Artifact: files created, modified, inspected, intentionally untouched.
  • Continuation: next action, current blocker, validation state, open risks.
  • Decision: why key tradeoffs were chosen and what alternatives were rejected.

Safety Constraints

  • Do NOT silently drop critical architectural constraints or user preferences during compression.
  • Write the handoff document to disk before asking the user to restart.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. yesterday First seen · 76 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 5964a4017d88

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context-compression is a skill published in the GitHub repository yeaight7/agent-powerups (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 630 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-14.