strategic-compact

Strategic context compaction preserves essential information across task phases by prompting you to compact at logical milestones—exploration, planning, and execution—rather than relying on automatic compaction alone. This ensures critical decisions and implementation details stay accessible.

Compact before major context shifts: before refactoring, switching between exploration and planning phases, or before implementing large features. The Skill triggers compaction prompts via PreToolUse hooks when you use Edit or Write tools at optimal moments.

Yes. The Skill uses a Bash script and PreToolUse hooks to automate compaction prompts at milestones without external dependencies. Configure it by adding a PreToolUse hook in ~/.opencode/settings.json pointing to the suggest-compact.sh script.

Automatic compaction can discard context unexpectedly. Strategic compaction lets you decide what to preserve by prompting at deliberate milestones—exploration notes, planning artifacts, and implementation decisions—before major code changes.

No. The Skill relies only on a lightweight Bash script and standard PreToolUse hooks. No external installations or dependencies are required beyond your existing workflow environment.