context-budget

context-budget is a skill for Claude Code from loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,388 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of context-budget, MIT.

A tool for measuring how much of an AI coding session's context is used by agents, skills, external tool definitions, and rules. It also identifies duplicated or unusually large components.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect context usage, find oversized configuration files, detect overlapping rules, and plan whether a session can accommodate more components.
Why use it?
Long or repeated instructions leave less room for the actual task and can make responses slower or less useful. An audit shows where that space is going and what could be reduced.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the awesome-claude-notes plugin — 106 skills, 61 commands, 28 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect context usage, find oversized configuration files, detect overlapping rules, and plan whether a session can accommodate more components.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes/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 loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes --skill context-budget
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install awesome-claude-notes, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 106 skills, 61 commands, 28 agents.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,388 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 91% 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 $0.00037 $0.01388
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00694
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00139

Measured 6d ago against content hash d5b151767560, 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 6d 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

91% identical to context-budget — 38 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.

docs/ja-JP/skills/context-budget/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 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-budget command (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 description frontmatter 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

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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. 6d ago First seen · 145 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A d5b151767560

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context-budget is a skill published in the GitHub repository loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes (270 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,388 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to context-budget, differing in 38 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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