Context Manager

The Context Manager skill helps you optimize conversation context to maintain Claude's effectiveness throughout long sessions. It tracks context window usage, identifies when to summarize or prune context, and helps you structure conversations to keep relevant information accessible while staying within token limits.

This skill is essential for complex, multi-day projects where conversation history grows large. It helps you decide what to preserve, what to summarize, and what to discard, ensuring Claude maintains awareness of important decisions and project state without hitting context limits.

Use this skill proactively during long development sessions, before starting new major features, or when you notice performance degradation due to context bloat.

Core Workflows

Workflow 1: Monitor Context Health

1. Check current context usage:
   • Token count
   • Percentage of limit
   • Recent growth rate
2. Analyze context composition:
   • How much is code?
   • How much is conversation?
   • How much is documentation?