Compact Handover

COMPACT – Chat Handover Skill for Claude When your Claude chat gets too long, you're burning tokens exponentially. But switching chats means losing all context. This skill solves that. Type /compact and Claude compresses your entire conversation into a structured handover block – all decisions, code, constraints, and next steps. Paste it into a new chat and keep working with full context at a fraction of the token cost. What it does

Compresses a long chat into a tight handover block (10-30% of original size) Preserves all code, data, URLs, and decisions verbatim Drops reasoning and discussion, keeps only results Formats as a single copy-pasteable code block Tells the new Claude exactly where to pick up

How to use

Install the skill in Claude (Settings → Skills → Customize) Work in a chat as usual When the chat gets long, type /compact Copy the output block Open a new chat, paste, keep working

Triggers /compact · /compress · /handover · "compact the chat" · "continue in new chat" Why this exists The Claude API has server-side context compaction. The consumer app (claude.ai) doesn't. This skill bridges that gap. It won't shrink your current chat – but the new chat starts lean with everything the old one knew.