cco

cco is a skill for Claude Code from egorfedorov/claude-context-optimizer. It costs 33 tokens per session (439 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A single-screen view of the current session’s context budget, spending, saved tokens, unused read files, prompt grade and active task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor a session, inspect the file-by-file heatmap, compact unused context and track token or cost use by task.
Why use it?
It puts the main context and cost signals together so you can decide what to remove or load next.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the claude-context-optimizer plugin — 22 skills, 1 agent, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to monitor a session, inspect the file-by-file heatmap, compact unused…

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add egorfedorov/claude-context-optimizer
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-context-optimizer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-context-optimizer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 1 agent, 6 hooks.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 439 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 $0.00033 $0.00439
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00219
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00044

Measured 7d ago against content hash 243f451ba560, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cco 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 7d 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.

skills/cco/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

Context Control Center

The all-in-one view of the current session. Show the user the live board, then the per-file heatmap if they want detail.

1. Show the board

node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/src/dashboard.js board

This renders, in one screen:

  • Budget — % of the effective context window used + $ spent this session
  • Saved — tokens the Read Cache blocked → the effectiveness multiplier (e.g. "1.4x")
  • Waste — cold context (read but never edited) you can drop to free budget
  • Prompt — grade of the last prompt (from Prompt Coach)
  • Task — the active task and its token/$ cost (per-task attribution)
  • Actions — concrete next steps: what to drop → /compact, what to /cco-pack

Present the board as-is. Then, based on what it shows:

  1. If an action line suggests dropping cold files, offer to run /compact.
  2. If no task is active, suggest /cco-task add "<what they're working on>" so the board can attribute tokens per task.
  3. If the prompt grade is low (C/D/F), suggest /cco-coach.

2. (Optional) per-file heatmap

If the user wants the file-by-file breakdown:

node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/src/tracker.js heatmap

Highlight files read but never used (waste), files that were edited (high-value), and the total token usage / waste percentage.

If there is no data yet, tell the user: "No data in this session yet — keep working. Reads, edits, prompts and cache savings are tracked automatically; run /cco again to see the board fill in."

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. 7d ago First seen · 47 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 243f451ba560

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cco is a skill published in the GitHub repository egorfedorov/claude-context-optimizer (105 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 439 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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