Book Compact — Development skill for Claude Code
Compress a closed volume into a summary and consolidate story-bible Facts Logs — what keeps a 500-1000 chapter project's context from growing without limit.
How to install Book Compact
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/jayping23-book-forge-book-compact/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/jayping23-book-forge-book-compact && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JayPing23/book-forge/HEAD/commands/book-compact.md -o ~/.claude/skills/jayping23-book-forge-book-compact/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Book Compact does
description: Compress a closed volume into a summary and consolidate story-bible Facts Logs — what keeps a 500-1000 chapter project's context from growing without limit argument-hint: [volume-number]
book-compact
Dispatches `continuity-archivist`. Run this when a volume closes, not on a fixed chapter count.
Process
- Read
project.jsonforproject_typeandlength_tier. Acomplete-bookproject generally doesn't need this at all; ashort-tier serial
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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