Session Stripper Skill for Claude
Manually trim, compact, persist, and repair Claude Code conversation sessions stored as JSONL files. Use when the user wants to: (1) fix a session hitting 'Prompt is too long' errors, (2) manually compact or strip a session to reduce context, (3) analyze a session's token usage and message chain, (4) strip tool call inputs and results from a session, (5) strip thinking blocks from a session, (6) compact part of a session before a specific message, (7) verify or repair a broken session chain, (8) persist and summarize tool results to reduce context intelligently, (9) perform any JSONL-level surgery on Claude Code sessions. Triggers on mentions of session surgery, session trimming, session stripping, context compaction, session repair, prompt too long, session compact, manual session manipulation, summarize tool results, or persist tool output.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/vicnaum/vics-agent-skills --skill session-stripperOther skills for the same job
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Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, edit, or optimize an existing skill, run evals to test a skill, benchmark skill performance with variance analysis, or optimize a skill's description for better triggering accuracy.
Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.
Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.
Use when facing 2+ independent tasks that can be worked on without shared state or sequential dependencies
Replace with description of the skill and when Claude should use it.
Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment
This skill should be used when the user wants to "create a skill", "add a skill to plugin", "write a new skill", "improve skill description", "organize skill content", or needs guidance on skill structure, progressive disclosure, or skill development best practices for Claude Code plugins.
Use when executing implementation plans with independent tasks in the current session
How to use it
Take vicnaum/session-stripper from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.