token-optimizer

Purpose

To guide the agent toward efficient token usage while preserving effectiveness. The agent applies compact responses, budget-aware planning, optional checkpoints, and relevance-based context handling so that fewer tokens are consumed without sacrificing task completion or clarity.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when:

• The user explicitly asks to save tokens, reduce context usage, or get shorter responses
• The user requests a plan with a token or context budget in mind
• A long or multi-step task would benefit from planning with limited context
• The conversation is growing long and could benefit from summarization or context pruning
• The user asks to compact context, summarize before continuing, or create a checkpoint

Core Rules

1. Budget-aware plans. For long or multi-step tasks, propose a brief step-by-step plan before executing. State what will be done at each step in one or two sentences. Avoid dumping full detail in a single reply; spread detail across steps and reference files by path when possible.