strategic-compact

To prevent context loss, strategic compaction prompts context pruning at logical boundaries like phase transitions. It tracks tool calls within a session and triggers reminders to compact before context degrades between research, planning, and implementation phases.

Strategic compaction is a context management technique that preserves task state by prompting context pruning at logical boundaries. It is needed for long-running sessions and multi-phase workflows where context may degrade between phases.

You configure context compaction by setting up PreToolUse hooks in your CLAUDE settings to run suggest-compact.js. This establishes a hook-based workflow that tracks tool calls and reminds you when to compact based on a configurable threshold.

Yes, strategic compaction supports a configurable threshold for context pruning reminders. The hook-based workflow uses this threshold to track tool calls within a session and determine when compaction is warranted.

Yes, strategic compaction specifically activates before phase transitions such as moving from research to planning, or planning to implementation. This hook-based workflow ensures task context is preserved before shifting focus between distinct workflow phases.

Context degrades in long-running sessions because accumulated tool calls and interactions gradually consume the available context window. Strategic compaction mitigates this by prompting context pruning at logical boundaries before degradation impacts task performance.