| name | prepare-for-compaction |
| description | Make this session's ledger current so its context can be compacted safely, then answer plainly that compacting is safe. Use ONLY when the user explicitly invokes /prepare-for-compaction — the person types this command, never you. |
Prepare for compaction
The person is about to compact this session's context and is waiting on one answer: is the ledger current?
Make it current before answering — write in what the work has added since its last entry, on the spot. A ledger that is behind is something to fix here, never something to report. Then answer plainly that compacting is safe.
This is one step of the ritual the person drives: spot the moment, prepare, compact, reground.
Where lessons go
Project-empirical lessons about this skill land in workflow-content/prepare-for-compaction.md through a pull request on the project — never by editing this file, which is regenerated on every upgrade. A lesson that turns out to be true of every project travels as an issue on the workflow package instead.
