It reduces unnecessary file content in the conversation, which helps the agent focus on the relevant parts of a codebase.

context-efficient-tools — Plugin for Claude Code by xdg/xdg-claude

context-efficient-tools

context-efficient-tools is a plugin for Claude Code from xdg/xdg-claude. Its manifest loads nothing; the 5 skills it bundles cost 188 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of command-line tools that extracts only the needed parts of files instead of loading entire files into the agent’s working context. The working context is the information the agent can consider during a task.

In plain words

What is it for?: Use it when inspecting large files or projects where targeted searches and excerpts are more useful than reading everything.
Why use it?: It reduces unnecessary file content in the conversation, which helps the agent focus on the relevant parts of a codebase.

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it when inspecting large files or projects where targeted searches and excerpts are more useful than reading everything.

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Install in Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add xdg/xdg-claude

/plugin install context-efficient-tools

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xdg/xdg-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 5 skills cost 188 tokens a session between them.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-efficient-tools scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

context-efficient-tools/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 10 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "context-efficient-tools",
  "version": "0.2.2",
  "description": "CLI tool skills that minimize context usage through targeted extraction instead of reading entire files",
  "author": {
    "name": "David Golden",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  }
}

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 5 skills travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 188 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

1mo ago Changed 5d8f7ed9696c
2mo ago First seen · 10 lines scan A a5e607c04a3b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

context-efficient-tools is a plugin published in the GitHub repository xdg/xdg-claude (20 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Productivity

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