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Book Compact — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

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

Terminal

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.json for project_type and length_tier. A complete-book project generally doesn't need this at all; a short-tier serial

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