context-hygiene

context-hygiene is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xg-gh-25/SwarmAI. It costs 212 tokens per session (446 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for cleaning and shortening SwarmAI's twelve context files, which store identity, instructions, memory, tools, projects, and related knowledge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find context that can be compressed, decide which file should change, and manually improve SwarmAI's stored context.
Why use it?
It removes repeated or outdated material while preserving important corrections and principles in the right source file.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to find context that can be compressed, decide which file should change, and manually improve SwarmAI's stored context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xg-gh-25/swarmai/s_context-hygiene
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 xg-gh-25/SwarmAI --skill s_context-hygiene
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xg-gh-25/SwarmAI

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 212 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 446 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00212 $0.00446
Opus 5 $0.00106 $0.00223
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00045

Measured 11d ago against content hash a3bec1d7c213, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-hygiene 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/scan.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

backend/skills/s_context-hygiene/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Context Hygiene — Clean & Compress the Context Files

The codified methodology for cleaning / 瘦身 SwarmAI's 12 context files: the source-routing table (which file's SoT is backend/context/ + needs rebuild vs .context/ direct vs auto-generated), the cleaning rules (drift numbers, echoed titles, dated pointers, blow-by-blow→pattern+tell, CJK-in-system-prose), the C046 red-line (never cut a correction's pattern+durable-tell or a principle kernel), and the read-and-judge method (a read-only scanner surfaces candidates; the agent reads, judges, and deletes by hand — never a batch auto pass).

Scopes AWAY from context_health_hook (autonomous decay/dedup/regen) and s_persist (content-type routing for NEW knowledge) — this is the manual SEMANTIC sweep neither does.

→ Read INSTRUCTIONS.md for the full methodology + scripts/scan.py for the read-only scanner.

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

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. 11d ago First seen · 20 lines · 212 tokens per session scan A a3bec1d7c213

Subscribe to this mod's changes

context-hygiene is a skill published in the GitHub repository xg-gh-25/SwarmAI (44 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 212 tokens to every session and 446 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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