/strategic-compact
Strategic Compact — Context Preservation Before Compaction
Manual control over what survives `/compact`. Preserve decisions and working state, drop tool output and dead ends.
What it does
Pre-compaction checkpoint that separates must-preserve from drop-on-compact. Preserves active decisions, working state, and non-obvious assumptions. Drops tool output, file reads, and exploration dead ends. Outputs a 3-to-5 bullet compaction anchor the new context can orient against.
Use it when the context monitor hook fires at 50, 80, or 100 tool uses, when earlier decisions feel fuzzy, before running `/compact`, or at the start of a new phase in a long session. Not needed on short sessions under 30 minutes of heavy tool use.
Outputs a Session Checkpoint block: active task, progress, key decisions, next action, files in play. Saves to memory only when the insight matters across sessions. Pairs with `tldr` (end-of-session persistence layer) and the context-monitor hook that triggers it.
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