strategic-compact SKILL.md skillA
strategic-compact from frankxai/claude-skills-library is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add frankxai/claude-skills-library/strategic-compact@git:20261010.682b2cePins git:20261010.682b2ce in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- frankxai/claude-skills-library
- Path
absorbed/harness/strategic-compact/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261010.682b2ce, committed Oct 10, 2026
- Size
- 1,688 bytes
- Repository stars
- 47
- License
- MIT
Write what worked, what failed, and what is still open to a file, then compact at a phase boundary. Use when a long session is about to cross from research into editing, or from a finished milestone into the next task.
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
# Compact on a phase boundary Auto-compact fires when the window is full. That often cuts a multi-file edit in half. Compact when a phase is actually done, and only after the next phase can be resumed from disk. ## Write this file first Use `~/.claude/sessions/ecc-YYYY-MM-DD.md`, or the handover file the repo already uses. The note needs these three headings: - What worked, with the command output or the commit that proves it. - What failed, including the command that failed. - What is still open, as the next concrete action. If a heading is missing, add it. Do not paste an untrusted transcript into starlight-memory. ## When to compact - Research is done and the plan is a file. - A milestone is committed and the next task is different. - A failed approach is recorded and you are starting a different one. ## When to keep the window - You are mid-edit across several files. - The next step needs a path, a diff, or an error you have not written down. The todo list may not survive compaction on current Claude models. The file is the record. The estate already runs `pre-compact.js`. Do not add a second compact hook that double-fires. ## Where this came from …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add frankxai/claude-skills-library/strategic-compact@sha256:a4ebd6eea38b2364The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261010.682b2ce, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 10, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (1688 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
frankxai/claude-skills-library · 47 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wx7y6orwfnxy7s7b GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=frankxai/claude-skills-library/strategic-compact GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a4ebd6eea38b2364822715d3b6819ac8f22dde224384ed36ac97e71a4807e73a
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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