savethetokens

savethetokens is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Redclawww/savethetokens. It costs 69 tokens per session (2,304 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for reducing the amount of project information an AI coding assistant must repeatedly read. It uses focused sessions, checkpoint files, layered documentation, and removal of irrelevant context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to keep coding tasks focused, organize project notes, create checkpoints, and measure context-related savings when that evidence is specifically requested.
Why use it?
It helps control context usage and cost without cutting tests, security checks, error handling, or required implementation detail.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to keep coding tasks focused, organize project notes, create checkpoints, and measure context-related savings when that evidence is specifically requested.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/redclawww/savethetokens/savethetokens
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 Redclawww/savethetokens --skill savethetokens
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Redclawww/savethetokens

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,304 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 $0.00069 $0.02304
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01152
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00461
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00230

Measured 12d ago against content hash 51bf6487d586, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

savethetokens 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.

SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context Governor

Optimize context usage with practical, high-impact workflows and scripts.

Non-Negotiable Guardrails

  1. Keep scope locked to the user request. Do not add extra features, pages, or telemetry unless asked.
  2. Treat token optimization as a constraint, not the goal. Correctness and security win over token reduction.
  3. Never claim token savings without before/after measurement on comparable tasks.
  4. If context-saving actions risk quality loss, keep the extra context and state the tradeoff.
  5. Never reduce code thoroughness to save tokens. Tests, strict config, safety checks, and error handling are non-negotiable. Save tokens from message verbosity — never from output completeness.

Operating Modes

  • Lean Mode (default): Use lightweight context hygiene only; do not create new benchmark artifacts.
  • Measurement Mode: Use launch-readiness or A/B telemetry scripts only when user asks for proof/percentages.

Claude Code Message Budget (required)

  1. Keep progress updates short and phase-based. Do not narrate every file write.
  2. Do not paste long command output unless user asks. Summarize only key signals.
  3. Do not repeat the same command without a code/input change; if retried, state the reason once.
  4. If /context shows message growth is unusually high, switch to stricter concise mode:
    • fewer updates
    • shorter summaries
    • batch related edits before reporting
  5. Prefer one concise final summary over long running commentary.
  6. For benchmark runs, enforce matched behavior on both variants:
    • same stop criteria
    • same compact policy
    • same output style (no extra giant report in one variant only)

Operating Playbook

  1. Confirm objective and lock scope in one sentence.
  2. Keep one chat session per task. Start a new session for unrelated work.
  3. Use ! <command> for direct shell commands when no reasoning is required.
  4. Run /context periodically. Compact around 50% usage instead of waiting for hard limits.
  5. Before /compact or /clear, create a checkpoint file with next steps and touched files.
  6. Keep top-level docs lean; move deep details to linked docs/*.md.
  7. Before final output on code tasks, run the quality gates in docs/QUALITY_GATES.md.
  8. For token-savings claims, run matched A/B using docs/BENCHMARK_PROTOCOL.md.
  9. For Claude benchmark runs, use docs/STRICT_BENCHMARK_PROMPT.md as the session starter.

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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 · 201 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 51bf6487d586

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savethetokens is a skill published in the GitHub repository Redclawww/savethetokens (10 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 2,304 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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