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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.

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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