Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add SaikaAco/saika-hermes-skills --skill context-budget-orchestrationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SaikaAco/saika-hermes-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/saikaaco/saika-hermes-skills/context-budget-orchestration)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/saikaaco/saika-hermes-skills/context-budget-orchestration"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/saikaaco/saika-hermes-skills/context-budget-orchestration/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/saikaaco/saika-hermes-skills/context-budget-orchestration"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/saikaaco/saika-hermes-skills/context-budget-orchestration.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00042 | $0.08385 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00017 | $0.03354 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.01677 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00839 |
Grade A, and why
context-budget-orchestration 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 668 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Context Budget Orchestration
Overview
Keep the parent Hermes session effective when a task can expand through tool output, long files, research trails, implementation loops, or multi-agent reasoning.
The method has three layers:
- Contain: keep bulky deterministic material out of the parent context.
- Orchestrate: delegate bounded, independent reasoning with explicit contracts.
- Reserve: stop expanding early enough to verify artifacts and deliver a grounded result.
This skill defines methodology, not permission. It does not authorize paid providers, external side effects, persistent changes, or broader delegation than the user and runtime permit.
This is an independently maintained public derivative of the context-budget orchestration method developed by SaikaAco with Hermes Agent. It preserves the method's causal gates, sizing, recovery, and outcome-preservation rules without requiring its original operator's paths, profiles, private policies, plugins, or model choices. The related Hermes skill is optional guidance, not a prerequisite. Use the active tool schemas and the official Hermes documentation to resolve runtime compatibility.
Three operating modes share the same admission and verification boundaries:
- Automatic containment: reduce deterministic bulk first; delegate independent reasoning only within existing permission when it would materially protect parent context.
- Explicit delegation: coordinate bounded children using the configured runtime model/provider and supported reasoning effort; do not infer this mode from “serious”, “deep dive”, “review”, or “dual model”.
- Optional paid external review: complete the primary analysis first, then obtain approval for one costed review call and adjudicate every substantive comment. A review request alone is not payment or disclosure authorization.
Causal execution gates
Apply these gates before any costly or stateful execution or retry, including downloads, dependency acquisition, builds, test suites, clones, VMs, deployments, migrations, long background commands, and repeated external API operations. Gate numbers retain the method's lineage; no private principles file is needed.
What ships with it
5 files 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.
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +262 lines 07d94cb0640f
- 2mo ago First seen · 406 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 3e3f8dc9299e
context-budget-orchestration is a skill published in the GitHub repository SaikaAco/saika-hermes-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 8,385 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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