context-economy

context-economy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Zfinix/aster. It costs 0 tokens per session (370 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to keeping the conversation manageable while examining large diffs, logs, file sets, or research results. It recommends summaries, targeted searches, and reading only relevant ranges.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize diffs and logs, find specific errors or functions, save large output for targeted queries, and delegate bulk reading.
Why use it?
It avoids filling the conversation with output that hides the useful details or consumes space needed for reasoning. Large artifacts are narrowed before they are examined closely.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to summarize diffs and logs, find specific errors or functions, save large output for targeted queries, and delegate bulk reading.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zfinix/aster/context-economy
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 Zfinix/aster --skill context-economy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zfinix/aster

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for context-economy

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zfinix/aster/context-economy.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zfinix/aster/context-economy)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zfinix/aster/context-economy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zfinix/aster/context-economy.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 370 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 $0.00000 $0.00370
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00185
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00037

Measured 8d ago against content hash eeee4afaa621, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-economy 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 8d 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.

crates/aster-skills/builtins/internal/context-economy/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Context economy

  1. Big outputs go to files, then get queried. git diff main > /tmp/change.diff then grep -n "fn " /tmp/change.diff; gh pr diff 12 > /tmp/pr12.diff; a build log to /tmp/build.log then grep -m5 error /tmp/build.log. Never print thousands of lines to look at twenty.
  2. Summaries before bodies. git diff --stat before any full diff, wc -l before a full read, ls -la before catting files. Decide what to open from the summary.
  3. Delegate bulk reading. Reading ten files to answer one question fills the conversation with nine files of noise. Send the question to the explorer agent and get back only the conclusion.
  4. Ranged reads, always. You almost never need a whole file: read the function, not the module. Ask for the specific line range the search hit pointed at.
  5. Do not re-read or re-run what is above. A file read earlier and unchanged is still in the conversation; an identical command gives an identical answer. Scroll back instead.
  6. Minimal-output probes for external checks. Checking that a URL exists needs a status code, not the page. Checking a fact in a doc needs one grep, not the document.
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. 8d ago First seen · 28 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A eeee4afaa621

Subscribe to this mod's changes

context-economy is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zfinix/aster (57 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 370 tokens. 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

speccrew-knowledge-bizs-dispatch

Dispatch bizs knowledge base generation tasks with 5-stage pipeline (XML Block version). Handles feature inventory, feature analysis with skill routing, graph data writing, module summarization, UI style pattern extraction, and system summary.

charlesmu99/speccrew · 55 tokens

speccrew-knowledge-bizs-identify-entries

Analyze source directory structures to identify business module entry directories for each platform using XML workflow blocks. Use when initializing or updating business knowledge base to determine which directories contain user-facing entry points.

charlesmu99/speccrew · 49 tokens

speccrew-knowledge-bizs-ui-graph

Constructs knowledge graph data (nodes, edges, relationships) from UI analysis results using XML workflow blocks. Generates graph JSON files and completion markers for the bizs knowledge pipeline.

charlesmu99/speccrew · 47 tokens

speccrew-knowledge-graph-write

Write, update, and initialize knowledge graph data (nodes, edges, index, metadata). Used by Dispatch Agent after receiving graphData from analysis skills. Handles batch writes, deduplication, index updates, and module initialization.

charlesmu99/speccrew · 54 tokens

speccrew-knowledge-techs-generate

Stage 2 of technology knowledge initialization - Generate technology documentation for a specific platform using XML workflow blocks. Extracts tech stack, architecture, and conventions from configuration files and source code. Creates INDEX.md, tech-stack.md, architecture.md, and conventions-.md files. Used by Worker…

charlesmu99/speccrew · 75 tokens

speccrew-knowledge-techs-index

Stage 3 of technology knowledge initialization - Generate root INDEX.md by aggregating all platform technology documents using XML workflow blocks. Creates the master index that maps platforms to their documentation and provides Agent-to-Platform mapping guide. Used by Worker Agent after all platform documents are…

charlesmu99/speccrew · 63 tokens