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Agent skill

Honey Compress

by Green-PT in Green-PT/honey-for-devs

Rewrite a memory or context file (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, a todo or notes file) into Honey-terse form so it costs fewer input tokens every session, without losing meaning.

MITAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Honey Compress

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-compress -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Green-PT/honey-for-devs honey-compress --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/honey-compress .claude/skills/honey-compress && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
honey-compress
GitHub stars
313
Token cost
~430 tokens
SKILL.md length
191 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
14
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Rewrite a memory or context file (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, a todo or notes file) into Honey-terse form so it costs fewer input tokens every session, without losing meaning.

  • Works in 4 steps: Back up first. Copy FILE →… → Rewrite the prose tersely — drop… → Preserve every distinct instruction —… → …
  • Asked to shrink
  • SKILL.md covers Do, Keep exact — never compress, Don't and Boundaries
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Honey Compress is an agent skill from Green-PT/honey-for-devs. Rewrite a memory or context file (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, a todo or notes file) into Honey-terse form so it costs fewer input tokens every session, without losing meaning. Backs up the original first. Use when asked to shrink or compress context files, trim CLAUDE.md, or cut per-session input cost. Prose only — never code, config, or data.

Its SKILL.md is about 430 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Agent instruction files. The repository describes itself as: Honey (I Shrunk the AI) by GreenPT: a cross-tool coding skill that cuts AI coding-agent token usage and LLM API costs — write less code, less prose, and denser agent-to-agent… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to shrink
  • Compress context files
  • Cut per-session input cost

Example prompts

  • “/honey-compress”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Back up first. Copy FILE → FILE.original.md. If that backup already exists, stop and ask — never clobber a restore point. If no backup can…
  2. Rewrite the prose tersely — drop wind-up, hedging, narration, and redundancy; fragments over paragraphs; merge guidance that repeats.
  3. Preserve every distinct instruction — terser words, identical rules. If unsure whether a line changes behavior, keep it verbatim.
  4. Report original vs new line/byte count and the backup path.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9169fc5. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Honey Compress loads about 430 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 191 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~89
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~430

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Green-PT/honey-for-devs at commit 9169fc5, republished under its MIT licence (© Green-PT). 191 words, ~430 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/honey-compress/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
honey-compress
description
Rewrite a memory or context file (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, a todo or notes file) into Honey-terse form so it costs fewer input tokens every session, without losing meaning. Backs up the original first. Use when asked to shrink or compress context files, trim CLAUDE.md, or cut per-session input cost. Prose only — never code, config, or data.
license
MIT

Honey Compress

Apply Lever 2 to a file the agent re-reads every session. The cheapest token is the one not re-sent — a one-time rewrite that saves on every future load.

Do

  1. Back up first. Copy FILE → FILE.original.md. If that backup already exists, stop and ask — never clobber a restore point. If no backup can be written, refuse.
  2. Rewrite the prose tersely — drop wind-up, hedging, narration, and redundancy; fragments over paragraphs; merge guidance that repeats.
  3. Preserve every distinct instruction — terser words, identical rules. If unsure whether a line changes behavior, keep it verbatim.
  4. Report original vs new line/byte count and the backup path.

Keep exact — never compress

  • Code blocks, commands, paths, identifiers, versions.
  • Any load-bearing directive — MUST/NEVER rules, and anything touching auth, secrets, money, migrations, or deletes. Compressing an instruction that changes behavior moves cost, it doesn't remove it.

Don't

  • Don't touch code, config, or data files — prose context only.
  • Don't merge two rules into one if they differ in effect.
  • Don't compress a file you can't back up.

Boundaries

Reversible by design — FILE.original.md is the restore path. Verify the rewrite still carries every rule before reporting done.

© Green-PT, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/honey-compress of Green-PT/honey-for-devs.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9169fc5

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Categories

Questions about Honey Compress

What does Honey Compress do?

Rewrite a memory or context file (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, a todo or notes file) into Honey-terse form so it costs fewer input tokens every session, without losing meaning. Honey Compress is an agent skill from Green-PT/honey-for-devs.md, a todo or notes file) into Honey-terse form so it costs fewer input tokens every session, without losing meaning.

When should I use Honey Compress?

Honey Compress fits situations like: asked to shrink; compress context files; cut per-session input cost.

How do I install Honey Compress in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-compress -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/honey-compress in Green-PT/honey-for-devs) into .claude/skills/honey-compress in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Honey Compress in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-compress -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/honey-compress in Green-PT/honey-for-devs) into .agents/skills/honey-compress in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Honey Compress in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-compress -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/honey-compress, .gemini/skills/honey-compress, .github/skills/honey-compress and .opencode/skills/honey-compress in your project.

What does Honey Compress need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Honey Compress is instructions for the agent only.

Does Honey Compress access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Honey Compress safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Honey Compress use?

Honey Compress is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Honey Compress use?

About 430 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Honey Compress?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Honey Compress: Using Agent Skills (addyosmani/agent-skills, 105k stars), Claude Reflect (BayramAnnakov/claude-reflect, 1.8k stars), Writing For Agents (bestofjs/bestofjs, 3.1k stars) and Neat-Freak Knowledge Closeout (KKKKhazix/khazix-skills, 21k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Honey Compress?

Green-PT (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Green-PT/honey-for-devs, which has 313 GitHub stars. The repository holds 14 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 7, 2026.

Source: Green-PT/honey-for-devs on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.