Ashlr Compact — Development skill for Claude Code
Identify stale tool results accumulating in the conversation history and surface a recompression plan.
How to install Ashlr Compact
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/ashlrai-ashlr-plugin-ashlr-compact/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ashlrai-ashlr-plugin-ashlr-compact && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashlrai/ashlr-plugin/HEAD/commands/ashlr-compact.md -o ~/.claude/skills/ashlrai-ashlr-plugin-ashlr-compact/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Ashlr Compact does
name: ashlr-compact description: Identify stale tool results accumulating in the conversation history and surface a recompression plan.
Read `~/.ashlr/session-history/.jsonl` using the `ashlr__read` tool (or Bash if the path resolves) and then run the following analysis logic:
**Find the session ID**: It is in `~/.ashlr/last-project.json` under the `sessionId` key. Read that file first.
**Read the session history**: Read `~/.ashlr/session-history/.jsonl`. E
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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