context-budget-analyzer

context-budget-analyzer is a skill for Claude Code from bjorn-ingmanson/thefroject-plugins. It costs 35 tokens per session (730 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for checking how much context a Claude Code workspace consumes by reading its instructions, skills, agents, rules, and reference files. It estimates file sizes and identifies repeated or always-loaded content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit CLAUDE.md and related workspace files, find oversized or duplicated guidance, and decide what should load only when needed.
Why use it?
Large or duplicated guidance can use up the space available for a coding task and make important instructions harder to include.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the thefroject-customer-success plugin — 47 skills, 11 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit CLAUDE.md and related workspace files, find oversized or duplicated guidance, and decide what should load only when needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bjorn-ingmanson/thefroject-plugins/context-budget-analyzer
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 bjorn-ingmanson/thefroject-plugins --skill context-budget-analyzer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bjorn-ingmanson/thefroject-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install thefroject-customer-success, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 11 commands.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 730 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 original No closer match found 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 $0.00035 $0.00730
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00073

Measured 8d ago against content hash bcdd2bfe6d0d, 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-analyzer 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.

customer-success/skills/context-budget-analyzer/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context Budget Analyzer

Reads

  • CLAUDE.md
  • .claude/skills/
  • .claude/agents/
  • .claude/rules/
  • context/
  • reference/

Step 1: Scan Workspace Components

Use Glob to find all files in:

  • .claude/skills/**/*.md
  • .claude/agents/**/*.md
  • .claude/rules/*.md
  • context/*.md
  • reference/*.md
  • CLAUDE.md

Read each file. Estimate token count using the approximation: 1 token per 4 characters.

Step 2: Classify Loading Behavior

Category Loaded When Impact
CLAUDE.md Every conversation Always in context
Rules (.claude/rules/) Every conversation (glob-matched) Always in context for matching files
Skills (.claude/skills/) On demand (triggered by user or description match) Only when activated
Agents (.claude/agents/) On demand (when invoked) Only when activated
Context files When referenced or read Only when needed

Step 3: Flag Issues

  • Oversized files: Any file over 5,000 tokens (20,000 characters)
  • Duplicate content: Content that appears in multiple files (search for repeated paragraphs)
  • Always-loaded bloat: Rules or CLAUDE.md sections that could move to on-demand skills
  • Unused components: Skills or agents that have no clear trigger or overlap with another

Step 4: Generate Report

Token Budget Overview

Component Files Est. Tokens Loaded Notes
CLAUDE.md 1 [count] Always
Rules [n] [count] Always (glob)
Skills [n] [count] On demand
Agents [n] [count] On demand
Context [n] [count] On read
Reference [n] [count] On read
Total [count]

Always-Loaded Budget

Total tokens loaded in every conversation: [CLAUDE.md + matching rules]

Flags

List each issue with the file path, estimated tokens, and a specific recommendation.

Optimization Recommendations

Ranked by impact (tokens saved):

  1. [Recommendation] — saves ~[N] tokens
  2. [Recommendation] — saves ~[N] tokens

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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 · 82 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A bcdd2bfe6d0d

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context-budget-analyzer is a skill published in the GitHub repository bjorn-ingmanson/thefroject-plugins (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 730 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.

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