token-budget

Installation
SKILL.md

Token Budget

Minimize context, not evidence.

Rules

  1. Never compact the user's current request, acceptance criteria, active constraints, unresolved errors, or uncommitted-change warnings.
  2. Keep exact commands, file paths, line references, failing test names, error messages, decisions, and latest task state.
  3. Archive the full source before omitting content. Treat a capsule without a retrievable archive as lossy.
  4. Prefer targeted reads (rg, line ranges, structured queries) over reading entire files.
  5. Prefer summaries of successful output; preserve failure output verbatim.
  6. Retrieve archived lines before acting when a capsule says evidence was omitted and the missing detail could affect correctness.
  7. Do not reduce verification, skip tests, shorten required code, or stop early to save tokens.

Compact large material

Run the bundled CLI from the project root:

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token-budget — arjunkshah/token-skill