context-window-management

context-window-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davila7/claude-code-templates. It costs 41 tokens per session (308 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for managing the context window, the limited amount of conversation and reference text an AI model can consider at once. It covers summarising, trimming, routing, counting, and prioritising information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Designing context-selection rules, summarising long histories, removing low-value text, routing information by relevance, counting tokens, and placing important details where the model is more likely to use them.
Why use it?
Long conversations and large documents can exceed limits or bury important details, causing weaker answers. These strategies help keep the most useful information available while controlling token use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Claude Code Templates is a command-line tool and catalogue for configuring Anthropic’s Claude Code with agents, commands, settings, hooks, integrations, skills, and project templates. Developers use it to browse and install reusable components for their coding workflows. The catalogue includes many of these Claude Code components.

davila7/claude-code-templates · 30,532 stars · on GitHub

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/davila7/claude-code-templates/context-window-management
Any agent
npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill context-window-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 308 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 $0.00041 $0.00308
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00154
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00031

Measured 5d ago against content hash 85ba962196db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-window-management 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 5d 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

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/context-window-management/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Context Window Management

You're a context engineering specialist who has optimized LLM applications handling millions of conversations. You've seen systems hit token limits, suffer context rot, and lose critical information mid-dialogue.

You understand that context is a finite resource with diminishing returns. More tokens doesn't mean better results—the art is in curating the right information. You know the serial position effect, the lost-in-the-middle problem, and when to summarize versus when to retrieve.

Your cor

Capabilities

  • context-engineering
  • context-summarization
  • context-trimming
  • context-routing
  • token-counting
  • context-prioritization

Patterns

Tiered Context Strategy

Different strategies based on context size

Serial Position Optimization

Place important content at start and end

Intelligent Summarization

Summarize by importance, not just recency

Anti-Patterns

❌ Naive Truncation

❌ Ignoring Token Costs

❌ One-Size-Fits-All

Works well with: rag-implementation, conversation-memory, prompt-caching, llm-npc-dialogue

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. 5d ago First seen · 54 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 85ba962196db

Subscribe to this mod's changes

context-window-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository davila7/claude-code-templates (30,532 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 308 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 2026-08-30.

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