context-optimization

context-optimization is a skill for Claude Code from frank-luongt/faos-skills-marketplace. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,520 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of context-optimization, Apache-2.0.

A guide to managing the information given to AI agents when conversations or documents become large. It covers shortening context, hiding irrelevant parts, reusing repeated information, and splitting work into sections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building long-running agents, handling large documents, reducing model input size, or improving context use in production systems.
Why use it?
It helps agents stay within context limits while reducing unnecessary cost and delay. The techniques preserve the information most relevant to the current task.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the faos-ai-engineer plugin — 14 skills, 8 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it when building long-running agents, handling large documents, reducing model input size, or improving context use in production systems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/frank-luongt/faos-skills-marketplace/context-optimization
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 frank-luongt/faos-skills-marketplace --skill context-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frank-luongt/faos-skills-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install faos-ai-engineer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 8 commands.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,520 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00000 $0.01520
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00760
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00152

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5e667a1e14a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-optimization 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 12d 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

This is a copy

88% identical to context-optimization — 31 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/faos-ai-engineer/skills/context-optimization/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: context-optimization description: Context window optimization through compaction, masking, caching, and partitioning strategies. Use when context limits constrain task complexity, optimizing for cost reduction, reducing latency, or building long-running agent systems. tags: [context, optimization, agents, llm]

Context Optimization Techniques

Context optimization extends the effective capacity of limited context windows through strategic compression, masking, caching, and partitioning. The goal is not to magically increase context windows but to make better use of available capacity. Effective optimization can double or triple effective context capacity without requiring larger models or longer contexts.

When to Activate

Activate this skill when:

  • Context limits constrain task complexity
  • Optimizing for cost reduction (fewer tokens = lower costs)
  • Reducing latency for long conversations
  • Implementing long-running agent systems
  • Needing to handle larger documents or conversations
  • Building production systems at scale

Core Concepts

Context optimization extends effective capacity through four primary strategies: compaction (summarizing context near limits), observation masking (replacing verbose outputs with references), KV-cache optimization (reusing cached computations), and context partitioning (splitting work across isolated contexts).

The key insight is that context quality matters more than quantity. Optimization preserves signal while reducing noise. The art lies in selecting what to keep versus what to discard, and when to apply each technique.

Detailed Topics

Compaction Strategies

What is Compaction Compaction is the practice of summarizing context contents when approaching limits, then reinitializing a new context window with the summary. This distills the contents of a context window in a high-fidelity manner, enabling the agent to continue with minimal performance degradation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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. 12d ago First seen · 170 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5e667a1e14a2

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context-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository frank-luongt/faos-skills-marketplace (33 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,520 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to context-optimization, differing in 31 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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