strategic-compact

Suggests manual /compact at strategic points in your workflow rather than relying on arbitrary auto-compaction. Auto-compaction triggers at arbitrary points: Strategic compaction at logical boundaries: The suggest-compact.js script runs on PreToolUse (Edit/Write) and: Add to your ~/.claude/settings.json : Environment variables: Use this table to decide when to compact: Understanding what persists helps you compact with confidence: Instead of loading full skill content at session start, use a trigger table that maps keywords to skill paths. Skills load only when triggered, reducing baseline context by 50%+: Monitor what's consuming your context window: Common sources of duplicate context: - Running long sessions that approach context limits (200K+ tokens) - Working on multi-phase tasks (research → plan → implement → test) - Switching between unrelated tasks within the same session - After completing a major milestone and starting new work - When responses slow down or become less coherent (context pressure) - Often mid-task, losing important context - No awareness of logical task boundaries - Can interrupt complex multi-step operations - After exploration, before execution — Compact research context, keep implementation plan - After completing a milestone — Fresh start for next phase - Before major context shifts — Clear exploration context before different task - Tracks tool...