strategic-compaction skillA
strategic-compaction is agent-read markdown (skill) from jnpiyush/agentx: Decide when to compact, reset, or continue a long-running agent session. Use when context pressure rises, when a checkpoint boundary is reached, or when a clean handoff to a different agent is needed. Encodes the rule that compaction is safe between phases but dangerous mid-implementation, and that reset beats compaction once durable artifacts diverge from the chat transcript..
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What the file says
# Strategic Compaction > **Purpose**: Choose between continue, compact, and reset without losing work or fabricating context. > **Scope**: Long-running sessions, checkpoint transitions, agent handoffs, token-pressure events. --- ## When to Use This Skill - Token budget is approaching the provider's compaction trigger. - A workflow checkpoint just changed (Plan -> Work, Work -> Review, Review -> Compound Capture). - The user explicitly says "compact", "reset", "start over", or "switch agent". - The chat transcript and the repo state have begun to disagree. ## When NOT to Use - Mid-implementation, halfway through editing a file. Finish the bounded slice first. - During an active validation run (tests executing, command in flight). - Inside a self-review iteration where the next step is already queued. ## Decision Order Try these in order. Pick the first one whose preconditions hold. 1. **Continue in place** when the active issue, plan, slice, and blocker state are still coherent and the budget will hold for at least one more bounded step. …
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How to install
mdr add jnpiyush/agentx/strategic-compaction@v1.0.0mdr add jnpiyush/agentx/strategic-compaction@sha256:7e9be2a2a7ea5b32Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-09-15 | f17c505 | 7,594 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-05-30 | 55f7137 | 7,588 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-05-18 | 6c28d61 | 7,582 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
jnpiyush/agentx · 16 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-21 · branch master
API
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