strategic-compact

To prevent context drift in long AI assistant sessions, use strategic compaction to manually consolidate information at logical workflow boundaries. This preserves critical reasoning and maintains session coherence by prompting you to clear outdated context.

Strategic compaction for multi-phase workflows is a context management technique that tracks tool usage to identify logical points for manual consolidation. It prompts you to compact context when switching between unrelated tasks like research, planning, and testing.

To configure a PreToolUse hook for manual context consolidation, install the skill and integrate the suggest-compact.js script into your workflow. This hook triggers periodic reminders based on a configurable threshold to prompt context compaction actions.

Yes, you can set a custom threshold for context management reminders. The skill provides a configurable threshold with a default value of 50, allowing you to adjust when periodic reminders trigger to prompt manual context consolidation during your session.

You should perform manual context compaction during multi-phase workflows at logical boundaries, such as when transitioning between research, planning, implementation, and testing phases, or when switching between unrelated tasks within the same session.