strategic-compact

Manual compaction prompts at logical milestones preserve working context during long-running tasks. This approach uses a PreToolUse hook and configurable threshold to trigger reminders, preventing context drift caused by arbitrary automatic compaction.

Automatic compaction triggers arbitrarily, causing context drift and lost mid-work progress. Prompting for manual compaction at logical milestones instead ensures critical working context is preserved across exploratory, planning, and execution phases.

Enable the tool and configure your compaction thresholds to start receiving prompts. It implements a PreToolUse hook alongside a lightweight session counter to prompt for manual compaction at logical milestones during your workflow.

Yes, manual compaction prompts apply during exploratory, planning, and execution phases across long-running tasks. A lightweight session counter tracks progress and triggers unobtrusive reminders to ensure context isn't lost mid-work.

Using a lightweight session counter for context management relies on configurable thresholds to trigger manual prompts. It is unobtrusive but requires you to manually execute compaction when prompted, meaning context preservation is not fully automated.