Developer's Own Plugin Caught a Context Warning—Then Failed—During Its Release

A developer releasing compact-ops, a Claude Code plugin designed to preserve session context during compaction, experienced the tool both working and failing within the same late-night session. The plugin is built to address a known limitation in Claude Code where compacting a session's context window discards critical operational details—such as prior decisions, granted permissions, and failed approaches—leaving the AI to repeat mistakes. When the developer ran the manual compact command, all three of the plugin's hooks failed because a directory restructure during the release had left the active session pointing to a stale file path. Crucially, the plugin's fail-open design meant compaction still completed normally rather than being blocked by the broken hooks. The project is derived from an earlier MIT-licensed tool called compact-plus, with key changes including self-contained usage tracking, persistent state storage outside the temporary directory, and automatic state re-injection when resuming sessions.