strategic-compact

Context preservation during long sessions is achieved by prompting manual compaction at logical task boundaries. Tracking tool invocations identifies opportune moments to compact, reducing context bleed when transitioning between research, planning, implementation, and testing phases.

Strategic compaction is a context management technique that balances context preservation by prompting manual compaction at logical boundaries. It should be used during long-running, multi-phase tasks when context pressure risks degrading session quality.

You trigger manual compaction prompts by invoking a workflow that implements a PreToolUse hook. This hook tracks tool calls, enforces a configurable threshold, and provides periodic reminders to execute a /compact command at logical boundaries.

Yes, you can configure the threshold for compaction reminders. The PreToolUse hook enforces this configurable threshold to track tool invocations and provides periodic reminders when context pressure builds during multi-phase tasks.

Context degrades during phase transitions due to context bleed from long sessions. Without strategic compaction at logical boundaries, accumulated tool calls and context pressure risk degrading the relevance of the active session.

Yes, using a PreToolUse hook for context management works specifically for multi-phase tasks. It tracks tool invocations across phases like research, plan, implement, and test to maintain focused context throughout the workflow.