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Compact Handover — Communication skill for Claude Code

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When your Claude chat gets too long, you're burning tokens exponentially.

How to install Compact Handover

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open UnfairerVorteil/Compact-Handover and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Compact Handover does

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

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README

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.