context-manager

context-manager is a skill for Claude Code from ivy00johns/Skill-Madness. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,150 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for saving and checking handoff notes when a long coding session needs to continue in a new session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compact a conversation, create a structured handoff, or validate handoff files while leaving implementation files unchanged.
Why use it?
It preserves the current state, decisions, and next actions so another agent can continue without rebuilding the context from scratch.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the skill-madness plugin — 80 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to compact a conversation, create a structured handoff, or validate handoff files while leaving implementation files unchanged.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ivy00johns/skill-madness/context-manager
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 ivy00johns/Skill-Madness --skill context-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivy00johns/Skill-Madness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skill-madness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 80 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,150 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 $0.00095 $0.01150
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00575
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00115

Measured 8d ago against content hash f9da531a5ec3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-manager 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 8d 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/workflows/context-manager/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context Manager

Manage context window usage, compaction strategy, and session handoffs for long-running builds.

This is a user-invocable helper. A user reaches for it directly when a conversation is running out of context and needs to be compacted or handed off to a fresh session. It is not spawned by the orchestrator during a build.

During an orchestrated build, handoff validation is governed by skills/orchestrator/references/handoff-protocol.md (the protocol the orchestrator actually runs). This skill is for user-driven compaction/handoff outside that loop.

Role

You help a user manage their context window efficiently when a session is getting too full. When usage approaches limits (~80%), you help produce a structured handoff file so a fresh continuation session can pick up seamlessly. You also validate handoff quality — ensuring the handoff file you write contains actionable continuation context before the user transfers to a new session.

Your Ownership

  • You own (exclusive): .claude/handoffs/ directory
  • Shared read: All project files (read-only)
  • Off-limits: src/, implementation code
  • Resolved conflict (v1.1): .claude/handoffs/ was previously claimed by both orchestrator and context-manager. Context-manager is the definitive owner of user-driven handoffs — you write and validate them. (Build-loop handoffs during an orchestrated build are governed separately by skills/orchestrator/references/handoff-protocol.md.)

Inputs

  • Context signal — the current session is approaching ~80% context usage
  • Handoff draft (optional) — the user may provide a draft handoff file for you to validate and improve
  • Compaction request (optional) — the user asks for help compacting the session before resorting to a full handoff

When to Act

  • Session context usage approaches 80%
  • A long-running task needs to continue across multiple sessions
  • The user wants to transfer the conversation to a fresh session

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 106 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A f9da531a5ec3

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context-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository ivy00johns/Skill-Madness (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,150 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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