Compress Session

Compress Session is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by pedrohcgs in claude-code-my-workflow.

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Install Compress Session

Copy Compress Session 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/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/tree/main/.claude/skills/compress-session ~/.claude/skills/compress-session

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/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/compress-session/SKILL.md in pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/compress-session
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Compress Session does

Compress Session distills the current Claude Code conversation into a structured note (decisions made, open questions, file pointers, next 1–3 actions) saved to quality_reports/session_logs/ before auto-compaction truncates context. Use when context is approaching the auto-compact threshold, after long pipelines, or when the user asks to compress or distill the session.

Compress Session is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Compress Session comes from a repository tagged academic-writing, causal-inference, claude-code, claude-code-skills and econometrics.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

`/compress-session` — distil, don't truncate

Auto-compaction is lossy: it keeps recent turns and drops earlier ones, with no preservation of what was decided mid-session. /compress-session is the distil-not-truncate alternative — produce a structured note that the next session can resume from in under a minute.

Why this skill exists

Drew Breunig's "How Long Contexts Fail" identifies four failure modes for long-context sessions:

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

Commands Compress Session provides

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

/compress-session
/checkpoint
/context-status
/clear
/promote-memory

Frequently asked about Compress Session

What else does pedrohcgs publish alongside Compress Session?
Compress Session is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Audit Reproducibility, Capture Environment and Checkpoint. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Compress Session does, and is maintained by pedrohcgs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow page.
How does Compress Session compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Compress Session ranks #983 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 Compress Session against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.