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 "schema_version": 1,
 "generated": "2026-10-20",
 "id": "heycubit-effortless--time-compaction-and-handoff-on-long-chats",
 "repo": "HeyCubit/effortless",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/HeyCubit/effortless",
 "repo_slug": "heycubit-effortless",
 "title": "Compact or hand off a heavy chat before the cache goes cold",
 "page_title": "How to compact or hand off a heavy chat before the cache goes cold with Effortless",
 "summary": "Use the cache countdown on the bar to decide when to compact or start a fresh chat.",
 "who": "A Claude Code user in a large, long-running chat who wants to avoid paying full price to re-read the whole conversation.",
 "problem": "After the prompt cache expires, the next message pays full price to re-read the chat, and it is hard to tell when that will happen.",
 "outcome": "The user sees the time left on the cache, and when the bar turns to ice, runs Handoff or Compact to keep the next messages cheaper.",
 "steps": [
  "Install Effortless as described in the first use case, then start or continue a long chat.",
  "Watch the cache countdown on the bar (for example cache 59:00).",
  "When the cache has gone cold on a big chat, choose Handoff to write a summary and carry on in a clean chat, or Compact to shorten the current one.",
  "Open Settings, then Handoff, then Compact with, to choose which model writes compactions; the README sets Haiku 5.5 by default."
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "In the HeyCubit/effortless repo, after installing the plugin, check the bar's cache countdown in a chat at <path-to-project> and report the minutes left. Once the bar shows the cache as cold on a large chat, confirm that Compact or Handoff is offered and that a summary is written.",
 "agents": [
  "claude-code"
 ],
 "difficulty": "Intermediate",
 "time": "30 minutes",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "The README notes that Haiku 5.5 makes the handoff call and that Compact falls back to normal Claude Code compaction if Haiku fails.",
 "category": "Software and DevOps",
 "tags": [
  "Software and DevOps"
 ],
 "lang": "html",
 "requirements": [
  "Claude Code installed",
  "A Claude login (the default judge runs on it, no key needed)",
  "git available if you want update checks, as the README mentions"
 ],
 "risk": "none",
 "seen_in_the_wild": false,
 "mentioned_publicly": false,
 "risks": [],
 "best": false,
 "score": 0.9,
 "evidence": [],
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