/office-hours is works great-- But Claude Code compaction deletes all the learnings

[areibman]

The /office-hours feedback/brainstorming command is excellent. Also, the /plan-ceo-review, /plan-design-review etc. commands works great.

But what ends up happening is they use a lot of tokens. So Claude Code Compaction actually ends up delete a lot of the progress that you've made along the way. All the key learnings and assumptions you get from that feedback loop go with it.

At the end of an /office-hours or the end of a planning command gstack saves the learnings/plans markdown files automatically with kind of high-level descriptors so that those insights actually don't get lost along the way. However, it saves all the files in a hidden gstack directory: ~/.gstack/projects/.

Ideally, these learnings would be saved in the repo we're working in. (Took me a fair amount of fishing to find it).

[sevastyanovio]

This is exactly the problem that motivated PR #405 (/meditate).

/meditate writes repo consciousness to .gstack/context.md on disk — architecture map, hotspots, conventions, user taste, recurring problems. Every skill re-reads it from disk at the start of each session via the preamble. Compaction can't delete it because it's a file, not conversation history.

The scanner also mines past JSONL session files, so even if a session's in-context learnings get compacted away, /meditate can recover the patterns from the raw session data on the next daily scan.