context-budget

context-budget is a skill for Claude Code from AndrewDongminYoo/cc-agents-kit. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,470 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of context-budget, Apache-2.0.

A tool that measures how much of Claude Code's context window is used by agents, skills, rules, and MCP servers. The context window is the amount of project information the assistant can consider at once.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing loaded components, finding repeated or bloated instructions, estimating token use, and prioritizing configuration changes that free context space.
Why use it?
It reveals oversized or duplicated configuration that can leave less room for the actual task and reduce response quality.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the context-handoff plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Auditing loaded components, finding repeated or bloated instructions, estimating token use, and prioritizing configuration changes that free context space.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/andrewdongminyoo/cc-agents-kit/context-budget
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.

Any agent
npx skills add AndrewDongminYoo/cc-agents-kit --skill context-budget
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AndrewDongminYoo/cc-agents-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install context-handoff, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,470 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00037 $0.01470
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00735
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00147

Measured 8d ago against content hash 85e7c0b03802, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-budget 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to context-budget — 62 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/context-handoff/skills/context-budget/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context Budget

Analyze token overhead across every loaded component in a Claude Code session and surface actionable optimizations to reclaim context space.

When to Use

  • Session performance feels sluggish or output quality is degrading
  • You've recently added many skills, agents, or MCP servers
  • You want to know how much context headroom you actually have
  • Planning to add more components and need to know if there's room
  • Running /context-budget command (this skill backs it)

How It Works

Phase 1: Inventory

Scan all component directories and estimate token consumption:

Agents (agents/*.md)

  • Count lines and tokens per file (words × 1.3)
  • Extract description frontmatter length
  • Flag: files >200 lines (heavy), description >30 words (bloated frontmatter)

Skills (skills/*/SKILL.md)

  • Count tokens per SKILL.md
  • Flag: files >400 lines
  • Check for duplicate copies in .agents/skills/ — skip identical copies to avoid double-counting

Rules (rules/**/*.md)

  • Count tokens per file
  • Flag: files >100 lines
  • Detect content overlap between rule files in the same language module

MCP Servers (.mcp.json or active MCP config)

  • Count configured servers and total tool count
  • Estimate schema overhead at ~500 tokens per tool
  • Flag: servers with >20 tools, servers that wrap simple CLI commands (gh, git, npm, supabase, vercel)

CLAUDE.md (project + user-level)

  • Count tokens per file in the CLAUDE.md chain
  • Flag: combined total >300 lines

Phase 2: Classify

Sort every component into a bucket:

Bucket Criteria Action
Always needed Referenced in CLAUDE.md, backs an active command, or matches current project type Keep
Sometimes needed Domain-specific (e.g. language patterns), not referenced in CLAUDE.md Consider on-demand activation
Rarely needed No command reference, overlapping content, or no obvious project match Remove or lazy-load

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 lines

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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 151 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 85e7c0b03802

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context-budget is a skill published in the GitHub repository AndrewDongminYoo/cc-agents-kit (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,470 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to context-budget, differing in 62 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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