post-compact

Context recovery after compaction restores your active tasks, recent changes, and decisions by inspecting the compaction summary and searching recent exchanges. Use conversation-search to retrieve relevant context before responding to the user, ensuring continuity and alignment.

During compaction, your conversation history is summarized to free up space. A compaction summary captures key points, but full context—including specific file changes, open issues, and user preferences—must be recovered using local history search to continue effectively.

Apply context recovery immediately when a compaction summary appears or when a session starts with a prior summary. Recovering context before your next response prevents misalignment, ensures you understand current tasks, and restores awareness of recent decisions and modifications.

Run conversation-search with a topic extracted from the compaction summary to extract relevant exchanges. The tool inspects local history, identifies current task state and recent changes, and delivers recovered context ready for your next response.

Yes. Context recovery extracts modified files, error states, and technical decisions from recent exchanges after compaction. Conversation-search retrieves these details so you can resume work without losing track of what changed or what failed.