Token Budget Advisor (TBA)

Intercept the response flow to offer the user a choice about response depth before Claude answers.

When to Use

• User wants to control how long or detailed a response is
• User mentions tokens, budget, depth, or response length
• User says "short version", "tldr", "brief", "al 25%", "exhaustive", etc.
• Any time the user wants to choose depth/detail level upfront

Do not trigger when: user already set a level this session (maintain it silently), or the answer is trivially one line.

How It Works

Step 1 — Estimate input tokens

Use the repository's canonical context-budget heuristics to estimate the prompt's token count mentally.