strategic-compact SKILL.md skillA

strategic-compact from affaan-m/ecc is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add affaan-m/ecc/strategic-compact@git:20260825.dac72d1

Pins git:20260825.dac72d1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
affaan-m/ecc
Path
.kiro/skills/strategic-compact/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20260825.dac72d1, committed Aug 25, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 7, 2026
Size
6,614 bytes
Repository stars
299,696
License
MIT

Suggests manual context compaction at logical intervals to preserve context through task phases rather than arbitrary auto-compaction.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Strategic Compact Skill

Suggests manual `/compact` at strategic points in your workflow rather than relying on arbitrary auto-compaction.

## When to Activate

- Running long sessions that approach context limits (200K+ tokens)
- Working on multi-phase tasks (research → plan → implement → test)
- Switching between unrelated tasks within the same session
- After completing a major milestone and starting new work
- When responses slow down or become less coherent (context pressure)

## Why Strategic Compaction?

Auto-compaction triggers at arbitrary points:
- Often mid-task, losing important context
- No awareness of logical task boundaries
- Can interrupt complex multi-step operations

Strategic compaction at logical boundaries:
- **After exploration, before execution** — Compact research context, keep implementation plan
- **After completing a milestone** — Fresh start for next phase
- **Before major context shifts** — Clear exploration context before different task

## How It Works

The `suggest-compact.js` script runs on PreToolUse (Edit/Write) and:

1. **Tracks tool calls** — Counts tool invocations in session
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add affaan-m/ecc/strategic-compact@sha256:2e725bafb4ded59b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260825.dac72d1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 7, 2026 and Aug 25, 2026, about one every 39 days.

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git:20260825.dac72d1 latest2026-08-25 dac72d1 6,614 BA view · diff
git:20260704.8c3a3042026-07-04 8c3a304 5,693 BA view · diff
git:20260607.4ad57562026-06-07 4ad5756 5,259 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the 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 (6614 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

affaan-m/ecc · 299,696 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_f3buvqikd7txznls
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=affaan-m/ecc/strategic-compact
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2e725bafb4ded59ba41d5e8251b76f87bf95f9c4615b8a0abcfe0c536c4df8ed

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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