Compact Guard

Compact Guard is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by rohitg00 in pro-workflow.

2.8K stars270 forkson rohitg00/pro-workflowAdded 2026/08/17Repository updated 2026/08/10

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Install Compact Guard

Copy Compact Guard into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/rohitg00/pro-workflow/tree/main/skills/compact-guard ~/.claude/skills/compact-guard

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/rohitg00/pro-workflow.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/compact-guard/SKILL.md in rohitg00/pro-workflow
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/compact-guard
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Compact Guard does

Compact Guard preserves critical context state before compaction and restores it after, so an agent can resume work without losing task progress, decisions, or next steps.

Compact Guard is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Compact Guard comes from a repository tagged agent-orchestration, ai-agents, ai-coding, ai-workflow and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

POST_COMPACT_MAX_FILES_TO_RESTORE = 5 — only 5 files survive
POST_COMPACT_TOKEN_BUDGET = 50K — total restore budget
POST_COMPACT_MAX_TOKENS_PER_FILE = 5K — per-file limit
Auto-compact fires at context_window - 13K buffer

Pre-Compact Checklist

Before compacting, save these to memory or a scratch file:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Compact Guard provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/compact
/resume

Frequently asked about Compact Guard

What else does rohitg00 publish alongside Compact Guard?
Compact Guard is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rohitg00/pro-workflow, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Teams, Auto Setup and Batch Orchestration. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Compact Guard does, and is maintained by rohitg00 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rohitg00/pro-workflow page.
How does Compact Guard compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Compact Guard ranks #730 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Compact Guard against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.