claude-restart-compact

Compacting context at natural breakpoint and resuming work...

This will:

• Summarize recent conversation to free tokens
• Preserve task context and state
• Resume with compact history
• Continue working on current task

When to Use (Natural Breakpoints)

Use at logical stopping points rather than letting Claude auto-compact randomly:

After completing a phase:

• Feature implementation done and committed
• Test suite passing
• Documentation updated
• Natural transition to next phase

At project boundaries:

• Completed one component, starting another
• Finished refactoring, moving to new feature
• After major milestone

Before running out of space:

• Token usage >150k (75% of 200k budget)
• Long conversations (>100 messages)
• Before starting large multi-phase work

Benefits over auto-compact:

• Control WHEN compaction happens
• Compact at meaningful boundaries
• Preserve important context
• Custom prompts guide what to keep

Usage

Basic (default compaction):

.claude/skills/claude-restart-resume/scripts/claude-restart.sh compact

With custom prompt (guides what to preserve):

# Set compaction prompt before invoking
export COMPACT_PROMPT="Preserve: API design decisions, database schema, known bugs"
.claude/skills/claude-restart-resume/scripts/claude-restart.sh compact

Compaction Prompts

Custom prompts help preserve important context:

# Keep technical decisions
COMPACT_PROMPT="Preserve architectural decisions and open technical questions"

# Keep project state
COMPACT_PROMPT="Preserve TODO list state, recent commits, and next steps"

# Keep domain knowledge
COMPACT_PROMPT="Preserve domain model, business rules, and API contracts"

The script will pass this to Claude during compaction to guide summarization.