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A harness grown from losses

I almost never see the auto-compact warning in Claude Code. That is not a setting. I dislike what compaction does — the conversation is replaced by a lossy summary, and the nested instruction files do…

Verify XLSX metadata cleanup with Python

An XLSX cleanup report can tell you which fields it changed. For a regression check, I also want to inspect the downloaded file itself.

  • Python script compares original and cleaned XLSX files
  • Inspects XML files containing metadata and properties
  • Alerts user to any unexpected modifications in workbook

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