strategic-compact

Manual context compaction at strategic milestones preserves essential information across task phases, avoiding the disruption of arbitrary auto-compaction. It targets exploration, planning, and execution phases to prevent context drift.

Configure the PreToolUse hook by setting a threshold and using the included shell script as a baseline example. This lightweight setup requires no external dependencies beyond the script and your user configuration.

Arbitrary auto-compaction disrupts workflows because it triggers without considering task boundaries, potentially losing critical planning context. Strategic compaction at logical milestones avoids this by deliberately preserving essential information before major context shifts.

You should trigger context compaction after exploration phases, upon milestone completion, and before major context shifts. These strategic timing points prevent context drift and preserve critical information across task phases.

No external dependencies are needed to set up threshold-driven context compaction. The lightweight setup requires only a simple shell script and user configuration to integrate the PreToolUse hook.