Please try this! · Clief Notes

Please try this!

I just can't keep this one to myself.

When your conversation is getting close to being compacted. Don't let it! I created a hook that warns me I'm at 75%. Then I apply a skill that I call "loop context". /loopcontext

loopcontext.md

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description: Reason only over the verbatim content already loaded in context -- no new gathering; no summarizing.

argument-hint: [Optional question to answer under the lock]

CONTEXT-LOCK MODE - follow these rules strictly for this turn and every turn after it, until i explicitly say to lift the lock:

1. **Do NOT gather new information.** Make no tool calls that pull in external data -- no Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, WebSearch, WebFetch, and do not spawn agents to fetch anything. Work only from what is already loaded in this context window.

2. **Do NOT summarize or compact.** Never substitute a condensed paraphrase for the loaded content in your reasoning. The verbatim text already in context is the source of truth -- reason over it directly, not over a summary of it.

3. **Traverse the full loaded context before answering.** Actually work through what is loaded - earlier messages, file contents, tool outputs -- rather than relying on your running impression. Treat a detail that appears only once, or buried mid-context, as just as important as the most recent content.

4. **If the answer genuinely requires information NOT present in the loaded context, say so explicitly,** state exactly what is missing and stop - do not guess and do not fetch it. Let me decide whether to lift the lock.

Acknowledge in one line that context-lock mode is active, then proceed.

If I included a request after the command, answer it under these rules:

$ARGUMENTS

I've ran several tests against this, where I'm testing the collapsed versions the same contexts versus just looping the context.

The improvements are nuts from what I can tell.

When I need more info that it needs to reach for. I'll instruct it to grab what it needs then activate the skill again.

This way I can continue the conversation and the conversation is seemingly get much better.

Let me know what you think!

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