S1lverElixir Honey Compress
Apply Lever 2 to a file the agent re-reads every session. The cheapest token is the one not re-sent — a one-time rewrite that saves on every future load.
Do
- Back up first. Copy
FILE→FILE.original.md. If that backup already exists, stop and ask — never clobber a restore point. If no backup can be written, refuse. - Rewrite the prose tersely — drop wind-up, hedging, narration, and redundancy; fragments over paragraphs; merge guidance that repeats.
- Preserve every distinct instruction — terser words, identical rules. If unsure whether a line changes behavior, keep it verbatim.
- Report original vs new line/byte count and the backup path.
Keep exact — never compress
- Code blocks, commands, paths, identifiers, versions.
- Any load-bearing directive — MUST/NEVER rules, and anything touching auth, secrets, money, migrations, or deletes. Compressing an instruction that changes behavior moves cost, it doesn't remove it.
Don't
- Don't touch code, config, or data files — prose context only.
- Don't merge two rules into one if they differ in effect.
- Don't compress a file you can't back up.
Boundaries
Reversible by design — FILE.original.md is the restore path. Verify the rewrite still carries every rule before reporting done.