High Tide

Use this skill to stop before context quality drops, capture the facts that matter, persist durable project lessons when warranted, and produce a restart handoff for the same work after the user runs /clear.

When to Use

• Use when measured context usage is above 98%, a context-limit or auto-compaction warning appears, or the user invokes $high-tide.
• Use before the user runs /clear so the next fresh session can resume from a compact handoff instead of the full transcript.
• Use after a long debugging or research session where confusion, false trails, blockers, or hard-won corrections would save future agents real time.
• Use when a project lesson should be saved to the most specific docs/.ai/lessons/ directory before the current context is discarded.

When NOT to Use

• Do not interrupt a short, low-context task just to produce process notes.
• Do not create files when the user requested read-only, review-only, report-only, or diagnostic-only work.
• Do not replace a requested final answer with a handoff when the task is already complete.
• Do not claim a context threshold was crossed unless a measured source reports it.
• Do not write project lessons for one-off session trivia, ordinary command failures, or facts already obvious from existing docs.