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jev-compaction

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Use when a transcript has to be cut to a fixed size and you must choose which turns go. Jev marks each turn keep, summarize or drop. Measured: it does not make a handoff better.

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# Choosing turns with Jev, and what actually makes a handoff work

Jev cannot write a summary. It can mark each turn of a transcript:

- **keep**: carries a decision, a constraint, a preference, unfinished work, or an exact value, path, id, command or error that later work depends on.
- **summarize**: background whose gist matters. In the digest this is the turn's first 400 characters, nothing more. Jev writes no gist.
- **drop**: chatter, superseded attempts, repeated output.

It judges a long turn on its first 350 and last 350 characters, redacted, 40 turns per request, and sees no other turn while it does.

## Read this before you use it for a handoff

This skill used to say a handoff written from Jev's digest "stops losing the one line that mattered". We measured that on seven real sessions and 104 recall questions ([scorecard](../../evals/compaction/results/SCORECARD-2026-09-20.md)) and it was wrong:
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