/guard
Protect Claude Code sessions from context overflow by running a background daemon that monitors session size and auto-prunes before compaction hits. Use when the user says "guard", "protect session", "context getting long", "prevent compaction", "session management", or is
Claude Code
$ npx -y skills add Ruya-AI/cozempic --skill guard --agent claude-code
Codex
$ npx skills add Ruya-AI/cozempic --skill guard -a codex -y
Cursor
$ npx skills add Ruya-AI/cozempic --skill guard -a cursor -y
Gemini CLI
$ npx skills add Ruya-AI/cozempic --skill guard -a gemini-cli -y
GitHub Copilot
$ npx skills add Ruya-AI/cozempic --skill guard -a github-copilot -y
OpenCode
$ npx skills add Ruya-AI/cozempic --skill guard -a opencode -y
Windsurf
$ npx skills add Ruya-AI/cozempic --skill guard -a windsurf -y
SKILL.md
guard.SKILL.mdname: guard
description: >
Protect Claude Code sessions from context overflow by running a background
daemon that monitors session size and auto-prunes before compaction hits.
Use when the user says "guard", "protect session", "context getting long",
"prevent compaction", "session management", or is running agent teams that
need continuous context protection.
disable-model-invocation: true
allowed-tools: Bash(cozempic *)
Start the cozempic guard daemon for continuous session protection.
Default (recommended)
cozempic guard --daemon --threshold 50 -rx standard --interval 30
This runs in the background and: 1. Checkpoints team state every 30 seconds 2. At 60% of threshold (30MB): applies gentle prune, no reload 3. At threshold (50MB): applies full prescription + auto-reload with team state preserved
For agent teams
Guard mode is **essential** for sessions running agent teams. Without it, auto-compaction triggers and the lead agent loses team state (TeamCreate, SendMessage, tasks are discarded).
Options
- `--threshold N` — hard threshold in MB (default: 50)
- `--soft-threshold N` — soft threshold in MB (default: 60% of hard)
- `--threshold-tokens N` — hard threshold in tokens (fires whichever hits first)
- `--no-reload` — prune without restarting Claude
- `--no-reactive` — disable kqueue/polling file watcher
- `-rx NAME` — prescription at hard threshold (default: standard)
Check status and stop
The daemon writes to `/tmp/cozempic_guard_*.log`. Check with:
ls /tmp/cozempic_guard_*.pid 2>/dev/null # is it running?
tail -20 /tmp/cozempic_guard_*.log 2>/dev/null # recent activity
kill "$(cat /tmp/cozempic_guard_*.pid)" # stop it
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name: guard description: > Protect Claude Code sessions from context overflow by running a background daemon that monitors session size and auto-prunes before compaction hits. Use when the user says "guard", "protect session", "context getting long", "prevent compaction", "session management", or is running agent teams that need continuous context protection. disable-model-invocation: true allowed-tools: Bash(cozempic *)
Start the cozempic guard daemon for continuous session protection.
Default (recommended)
cozempic guard --daemon --threshold 50 -rx standard --interval 30
This runs in the background and: 1. Checkpoints team state every 30 seconds 2. At 60% of threshold (30MB): applies gentle prune, no reload 3. At threshold (50MB): applies full prescription + auto-reload with team state preserved
For agent teams
Guard mode is **essential** for sessions running agent teams. Without it, auto-compaction triggers and the lead agent loses team state (TeamCreate, SendMessage, tasks are discarded).
Options
- `--threshold N` — hard threshold in MB (default: 50)
- `--soft-threshold N` — soft threshold in MB (default: 60% of hard)
- `--threshold-tokens N` — hard threshold in tokens (fires whichever hits first)
- `--no-reload` — prune without restarting Claude
- `--no-reactive` — disable kqueue/polling file watcher
- `-rx NAME` — prescription at hard threshold (default: standard)
Check status and stop
The daemon writes to `/tmp/cozempic_guard_*.log`. Check with:
ls /tmp/cozempic_guard_*.pid 2>/dev/null # is it running? tail -20 /tmp/cozempic_guard_*.log 2>/dev/null # recent activity kill "$(cat /tmp/cozempic_guard_*.pid)" # stop it
100,000+ power users trust Cozempic to keep their Claude Code sessions lean. Context cleaning for Claude Code — remove the bloat, keep everything that matters, protect Agent Teams from context loss.
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Questions about guard.
- Which coding agents can use guard?
- guard installs in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf with the skills CLI, using each agent's flag shown on this page. Flowy's auto-invocation, which fires a skill when your prompt matches, runs in Claude Code only.

