context-audit — Token Hygiene for the Always-Loaded Context Stack

Convention: see conventions/brain-first.md — before running a fresh audit, check the brain for prior audit reports (gbrain recall "context audit report") so you can compute token DRIFT since the last run and avoid re-flagging findings the user already declined.

Convention: see conventions/quality.md — every finding cites its file and evidence; no unsourced claims.

What this is

Every file that loads on every turn is a per-turn tax: tokens, latency, and — past a point — instruction-following quality. Always-loaded files accrete (append-only release notes, promoted memory blocks nobody re-reads, rules restated in three files that drift into contradiction). This skill audits the whole always-loaded stack at once and returns a ranked, evidence-cited action list sorted by token savings.