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.
npx agentmods add skills/junmystery/agent-guidance-python/context-budgetnpx skills add JunMystery/Agent-Guidance-Python --skill context-budgetgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JunMystery/Agent-Guidance-PythonWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00037 | $0.01310 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00655 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00262 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00131 |
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 2d 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to context-budget — 0 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Context Budget
Analyze token overhead across every loaded component in a Claude Code session and surface actionable optimizations to reclaim context space.
When to Use
- Session performance feels sluggish or output quality is degrading
- You've recently added many skills, agents, or MCP servers
- You want to know how much context headroom you actually have
- Planning to add more components and need to know if there's room
- Running
/context-budgetcommand (this skill backs it)
How It Works
Phase 1: Inventory
Scan all component directories and estimate token consumption:
Agents (agents/*.md)
- Count lines and tokens per file (words × 1.3)
- Extract
descriptionfrontmatter length - Flag: files >200 lines (heavy), description >30 words (bloated frontmatter)
Skills (skills/*/SKILL.md)
- Count tokens per SKILL.md
- Flag: files >400 lines
- Check for duplicate copies in
.agents/skills/— skip identical copies to avoid double-counting
Rules (rules/**/*.md)
- Count tokens per file
- Flag: files >100 lines
- Detect content overlap between rule files in the same language module
MCP Servers (.mcp.json or active MCP config)
- Count configured servers and total tool count
- Estimate schema overhead at ~500 tokens per tool
- Flag: servers with >20 tools, servers that wrap simple CLI commands (
gh,git,npm,supabase,vercel)
CLAUDE.md (project + user-level)
- Count tokens per file in the CLAUDE.md chain
- Flag: combined total >300 lines
Phase 2: Classify
Sort every component into a bucket:
| Bucket | Criteria | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Always needed | Referenced in CLAUDE.md, backs an active command, or matches current project type | Keep |
| Sometimes needed | Domain-specific (e.g. language patterns), not referenced in CLAUDE.md | Consider on-demand activation |
| Rarely needed | No command reference, overlapping content, or no obvious project match | Remove or lazy-load |
Phase 3: Detect Issues
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 137 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 755adb765d26
context-budget is a skill published in the GitHub repository JunMystery/Agent-Guidance-Python (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,310 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to context-budget, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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