context-budget-skill

context-budget-skill is a skill for OpenCode from darellchua2/opencode-config-template. It costs 22 tokens per session (2,220 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An audit tool for counting and classifying the context used by coding agents, skills, rules, and MCP servers. Context is the information an agent loads before producing an answer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inventory configuration components, estimate their token cost, find bloat, and prioritize reductions.
Why use it?
It helps explain slow sessions, reduced output quality, and limited room for more configuration caused by duplicated or unnecessary instructions.

Skill for OpenCode

Written for OpenCode: installed under .opencode/. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions OpenCode.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/darellchua2/opencode-config-template/context-budget-skill
Any agent
npx skills add darellchua2/opencode-config-template --skill context-budget-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darellchua2/opencode-config-template

Made for: OpenCode.

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README.md
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,220 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00022 $0.02220
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.01110
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00222

Measured 2d ago against content hash 474ee04cf2ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-budget-skill 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 2d 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.

opencode_app/.opencode/skills/context-budget-skill/SKILL.md · 255 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 255 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What I do

I audit the token overhead of every loaded component in an OpenCode configuration and surface actionable optimizations:

  1. Inventory: Scan all agents, skills, rules, and MCP servers that consume context
  2. Classify: Bucket each component by necessity (Always / Sometimes / Rarely needed)
  3. Detect Issues: Identify bloat, redundancy, and common problem patterns
  4. Report: Produce a structured context budget report with prioritized recommendations

When to use me

Use this skill when:

  • 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
  • Before deploying configuration changes to catch bloat early

Trigger phrases:

  • "audit context budget"
  • "context budget"
  • "token overhead"
  • "how much context am I using"
  • "audit config bloat"
  • "check skill overhead"

Core Workflow

Step 1: Inventory

Scan all component directories and estimate token consumption.

Agents (opencode_app/.opencode/agents/*.md)

  • Count files and estimate tokens per file (words × 1.3)
  • Extract description frontmatter length
  • Flag: files >200 lines (heavy), description >50 words (bloated frontmatter)

Skills (opencode_app/.opencode/skills/*/SKILL.md)

  • Count directories and estimate tokens per SKILL.md (words × 1.3)
  • Flag: files >300 lines (heavy)
  • Note: skills are loaded on demand, so only description fields consume always-on context

Rules / Instructions (AGENTS.md chain)

  • Path 1: AGENTS.md (repo-level instructions)
  • Path 2: deploy/.AGENTS.md (user-space deployment)
  • Path 3: opencode_app/AGENTS.md (Docker mode)
  • Measure file size, section count
  • Flag: combined total >500 lines

MCP Servers (opencode_app/opencode.jsonmcpServers)

  • Count configured servers
  • Estimate schema overhead at ~100-200 tokens per server
  • Flag: servers with >20 tools, servers that wrap simple CLI commands

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 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. 2d ago First seen · 255 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 474ee04cf2ac

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context-budget-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository darellchua2/opencode-config-template (6 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 2,220 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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