feat: Add context-safety-net plugin to mitigate auto-compact context loss - #80883
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Problem
Auto-compaction in long sessions frequently causes silent context degradation (e.g., issue #42542, #13112, #28721). Users lose track of critical "anchor" files, and the agent continues working blind. Currently, there is no deterministic, first-party way to recover this state without manually restarting the session or relying on brittle LLM summary parsing.
Solution
This PR introduces the
context-safety-netplugin. It provides a deterministic, user-controlled safety net for compaction events.Key Design Principles (Why this is safe to merge)
PreCompact/PostCompacthook APIs and Statusline API. No modifications to the agent loop or compaction internals.PreCompacthook captures state usinggit diffandgit ls-files. It does not usegit stashor mutate repository state.PostCompacthook performs set arithmetic on file metadata. It does not parse natural language summaries./snapshot,/restore,/compare) for recovery..claude/context-anchors.jsoninstead of plain text.grep/sedfor JSON parsing, ensuring cross-platform compatibility (macOS, Linux, Windows Git Bash) without requiring users to installjq.How it Works
PreCompacthook snapshots the git state and anchor files to~/.claude/context-safety-net/.PostCompacthook checks if anchor files are missing from the working directory.⚠️ Anchor files missing... Run /project:restore to reload./project:restore <name>to explicitly instruct Claude to re-read the anchor files into context.Reviewer Notes
Checklist
plugins/context-safety-net/