Skill guide: /compact — compress a long conversation

Skill guide: /compact — compress a long conversation

compact summarizes the conversation so far into a compact, faithful summary and continues from it. Use it when a session has grown long — many turns, many artifacts — and you want the next turn to start from a clean, complete context without losing decisions.

How to call it

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/compact Keep the following in detail: the SUS and NASA-TLX results by version.

The argument is optional; without it the whole conversation is summarized evenly.

What happens

  • The summary is written as a message the agent will read first on the next turn: what was asked, what was decided, which artifacts exist and what they contain.
  • Anything you named is kept verbatim-level; the rest is condensed.
  • Artifacts are not touched — only the conversational context is compacted.
The compact turn on a usability-study session: the summary keeps the SUS and NASA-TLX results by version in detail.
The compact turn on a usability-study session: the summary keeps the SUS and NASA-TLX results by version in detail.

Tips

  • Compact before switching to a new sub-task in the same session (e.g. from analysis to writing).
  • Name the numbers you will need later; they survive compaction exactly.