Compacting Context

Compacts verbose context into structured summary. Use after pollution sources (searches, logs, JSON) or at phase milestones.

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Context Compaction (ACE-FCA)

Distills verbose outputs into structured summaries following ACE-FCA principles.

When to Use

Per references/context-management.md:

  • After verbose tool output (logs, JSON, search results)
  • After completing a phase or milestone

Workflow

  1. Identify noise - What pollution sources need compacting?
  2. Extract signal - Correct + Complete info only
  3. Structure output - Use template format below

Output Template

# Compaction: {{name}}

## Trajectory
<!-- Research status → Planning status → Implementation status -->

## Key Files
<!-- files touched with purpose -->

## Completed
<!-- done items -->

## Blockers
<!-- blocking issues (empty if none) -->

## Findings
<!-- key discoveries, distilled outputs from logs/JSON/tests -->

Quality Check

  • Correct > Complete > Minimal
  • No raw dumps, only structured summaries
  • Enough to continue, no more
  • Update working plan with compaction output (don't orphan it)

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