context-budget

context-budget is a skill for Claude Code from elitongadotti/cockpit. It costs 30 tokens per session (221 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A context-management skill for keeping the information given to a coding agent focused and small. Context means the conversation and files the agent can use while working.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during long sessions, when handling large files, or when the agent begins producing unreliable answers.
Why use it?
Long sessions and large files can make an agent less accurate or cause it to invent details.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Part of the cockpit plugin — 12 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it during long sessions, when handling large files, or when the agent begins producing unreliable answers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elitongadotti/cockpit/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 elitongadotti/cockpit --skill context-budget
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elitongadotti/cockpit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cockpit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 221 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 unknown 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 $0.00030 $0.00221
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00111
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00022

Measured 10d ago against content hash 885f8295eecf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 10d 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.

plugins/cockpit/skills/context-budget/SKILL.md · 13 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 10d ago First seen · 13 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 885f8295eecf

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context-budget is a skill published in the GitHub repository elitongadotti/cockpit (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 221 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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