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darcwader / compaction.md
Created February 15, 2026 19:54 — forked from badlogic/compaction.md
Context Compaction Research: Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, Amp

Context Compaction

Research on how other coding assistants implement context compaction to manage long conversations.

Overview

Context compaction (also called "handoff" or "summarization") is a technique to manage the context window in long coding sessions. When conversations grow too long, performance degrades and costs increase. Compaction summarizes the conversation history into a condensed form, allowing work to continue without hitting context limits.

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darcwader / countryinfo.py
Created September 29, 2021 04:15 — forked from pamelafox/countryinfo.py
Python list of country codes, names, continents, capitals, and pytz timezones
countries = [
{'timezones': ['Europe/Andorra'], 'code': 'AD', 'continent': 'Europe', 'name': 'Andorra', 'capital': 'Andorra la Vella'},
{'timezones': ['Asia/Kabul'], 'code': 'AF', 'continent': 'Asia', 'name': 'Afghanistan', 'capital': 'Kabul'},
{'timezones': ['America/Antigua'], 'code': 'AG', 'continent': 'North America', 'name': 'Antigua and Barbuda', 'capital': "St. John's"},
{'timezones': ['Europe/Tirane'], 'code': 'AL', 'continent': 'Europe', 'name': 'Albania', 'capital': 'Tirana'},
{'timezones': ['Asia/Yerevan'], 'code': 'AM', 'continent': 'Asia', 'name': 'Armenia', 'capital': 'Yerevan'},
{'timezones': ['Africa/Luanda'], 'code': 'AO', 'continent': 'Africa', 'name': 'Angola', 'capital': 'Luanda'},
{'timezones': ['America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires', 'America/Argentina/Cordoba', 'America/Argentina/Jujuy', 'America/Argentina/Tucuman', 'America/Argentina/Catamarca', 'America/Argentina/La_Rioja', 'America/Argentina/San_Juan', 'America/Argentina/Mendoza', 'America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos', 'America/Argentina/Ushuai