Strategic Compact

Overview

In long sessions, the context window is limited. This skill guides when to compact, what to keep, and what to discard.

Core principle: **Compress at logical boundaries, not at any time. **

When to Activate

• A long-running task is approaching context limits and needs a compact handoff.
• Work is crossing a phase boundary such as discovery to implementation or implementation to verification.
• A session must preserve decisions, modified files, constraints, tests, and unfinished steps.
• The user asks to compress, checkpoint, or make the current state resumable.
• A session is about to cross a planning, implementation, validation, or handoff boundary.
• The context window is close to compaction and important decisions must survive.
• The user asks to save or preserve state before continuing later.

Red Flags