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jev-compaction skillA

jev-compaction is agent-read markdown (skill) from kerpopule/hermes-jev-skills: Use when a transcript has to be cut to a fixed size and you must choose which turns go. Jev marks each turn keep, summarize or drop. Measured: it does not make a handoff better..

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What the file says

# Choosing turns with Jev, and what actually makes a handoff work

Jev cannot write a summary. It can mark each turn of a transcript:

- **keep**: carries a decision, a constraint, a preference, unfinished work, or an exact value, path, id, command or error that later work depends on.
- **summarize**: background whose gist matters. In the digest this is the turn's first 400 characters, nothing more. Jev writes no gist.
- **drop**: chatter, superseded attempts, repeated output.

It judges a long turn on its first 350 and last 350 characters, redacted, 40 turns per request, and sees no other turn while it does.

## Read this before you use it for a handoff

This skill used to say a handoff written from Jev's digest "stops losing the one line that mattered". We measured that on seven real sessions and 104 recall questions ([scorecard](../../evals/compaction/results/SCORECARD-2026-09-20.md)) and it was wrong:

| the writer reads | capsule | recall alone | with one search of the old session |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jev's digest | 400 words | 37.5% | 68.3% |
| the plain last 24,000 characters | 400 words | 48.1% | 68.3% |
| **the whole dialogue** | **1,200 words** | **58.7%** | **75.0%** |
…

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How to install

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mdr add kerpopule/hermes-jev-skills/jev-compaction@v0.2.0
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v0.2.0 latest2026-09-20 b44bc8d 4,791 BA view · diff
v0.2.02026-09-20 2f760e3 4,450 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-09-19 9a8a643 2,232 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-09-18 191a715 2,318 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4791 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

kerpopule/hermes-jev-skills · 700 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ecc36qnqv3wpqxss
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kerpopule/hermes-jev-skills/jev-compaction
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b7b94aab22d415693c972ed258dd80f678683499b0fd800065305eae89ece7f5

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