estimate-tokens

estimate-tokens is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xg-gh-25/SwarmAI. It costs 48 tokens per session (145 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bundled script that estimates how many tokens files use. Tokens are the small pieces of text that AI systems process within their context limit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to count tokens in files, estimate token usage, and check context size before sending work to an AI model.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork when checking whether files or a task may fit within the available context window.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to count tokens in files, estimate token usage, and check context size before sending work to an AI model.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xg-gh-25/swarmai/s_estimate-tokens
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_estimate-tokens
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 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 145 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 $0.00048 $0.00145
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00072
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00029
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00015

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5d59ab8997a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

estimate-tokens 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/estimate_tokens.py, scripts/estimate-tokens.sh), 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_estimate-tokens/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Token Estimator

This skill loads full instructions on activation. Read INSTRUCTIONS.md before proceeding.

TRIGGER: "estimate tokens", "count tokens", "token usage", "context window size" DO NOT USE: for manual token math — always run the script

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 12d ago First seen · 17 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 5d59ab8997a2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

estimate-tokens is a skill published in the GitHub repository xg-gh-25/SwarmAI (44 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 145 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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