lcmp_recommendation

Context compaction identifies durable information—architectural decisions, patterns, and critical gotchas—worth promoting to long-term memory files like decisions.md, insights.md, and gotchas.md. Use the `/squish` command after completing major work to surface what belongs in permanent documentation rather than ephemeral chat history.

Decisions.md captures architectural choices and rationale. Insights.md holds patterns, techniques, and learnings discovered during implementation. Gotchas.md documents edge cases, pitfalls, and constraints encountered. The compaction analysis reviews recent context and categorizes findings into these three files with proposed formats and rationale.

Use compaction after completing a major feature, debugging session, or architectural exploration when you've accumulated valuable learnings worth retaining. Compaction prevents bloated context from making it harder to retrieve durable insights and ensures knowledge survives across future conversations.

No. Compaction provides recommendations and suggested formats for what to preserve, but requires your explicit approval before any edits. You retain full control over what gets promoted to long-term memory and how it's documented.

Ephemeral details are specific command outputs, debugging steps, or trial-and-error attempts. Durable information includes decisions and their rationale, reusable patterns, architectural tradeoffs, and critical constraints or gotchas. Compaction identifies which recent work contains lasting value for future reference.