Strategic Compact

1. Self-improvement pass. Scan recent feedback memories + this session for rules that belong in a skill. Promote, shrink the source, mark MEMORY.md.
2. Compaction recommendation. Suggest /compact at a logical phase boundary with a paste-ready summary.

The skill is disable-model-invocation: true — zero context cost until the user types /strategic-compact.

Skills on disk: !ls -1 ~/.claude/skills/ 2>/dev/null

Subagents on disk: !ls -1 ~/.claude/agents/ 2>/dev/null

Commands on disk: !ls -1 ~/.claude/commands/ 2>/dev/null

Rules on disk: !ls -1 ~/.claude/rules/ 2>/dev/null

Hook scripts on disk: !ls -1 ~/.claude/hooks/ 2>/dev/null

Hooks + MCP + plugins configured in settings.json: !bash ~/.claude/skills/strategic-compact/scripts/settings-features.sh

Today: !date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ

• SCAN phase is a heavy file-read sweep across ALL Claude-extension types (skills, subagents, hooks, commands, rules, MCP, plugins — see features-overview doc). Per references/claude-code-best-practices.md, the audit must cover the full extension surface, not just skills. Delegate to a subagent so the main loop's context stays small.
• APPLY phase needs per-candidate AskUserQuestion prompts. Forked subagents CANNOT call AskUserQuestion. APPLY runs in the main loop.

This skill does NOT use context: fork in frontmatter (that would forbid AskUserQuestion across the whole run). Instead the body spawns a subagent for SCAN only, then continues in main-loop context for APPLY.

1. SCAN — Spawn a general-purpose subagent with this prompt:

   Read ~/.claude/skills/strategic-compact/workflows/self-improvement-pass.md and execute it end-to-end. Your final output must be the candidate-list Markdown described in the "Output contract" section. ALSO write the same content to ~/.claude/tmp/strategic-compact-candidates-<UTC-timestamp>.md (create the dir if missing). Return only the candidate list — no prose preamble.

   Wait for the agent return. Save the file path it created.

2. APPLY — Read ~/.claude/skills/strategic-compact/workflows/apply-edits.md and execute it against the candidate list (prefer the subagent return; fall back to the file if truncated). Use AskUserQuestion for each candidate.

3. DECIDE — Read ~/.claude/skills/strategic-compact/workflows/compaction-decision.md and emit a compaction recommendation with a paste-ready /compact <summary> line.

If the SCAN phase returns an empty candidate list AND the self-healing sweep found nothing, skip directly to DECIDE.

The SCAN agent runs these EVERY invocation. Each replaces a multi-step inline bash block in the workflow doc — one tool call instead of six. Both emit === SECTION === prefixes for cheap parsing.

scan-inventory.sh is also redundant when the SKILL.md <universe> block's dynamic context injection already ran — skip it in that case. Useful for fresh-fork invocations.

self-healing-sweep.sh honors SCAN_STRICT_XREF=1 to disable the known-optional-path filter (debugging only). Honors MEMORY_DIR=<path> to override project-memory auto-detection.