session-context-runs-out-mid-brief-measure-first-hand-back-early SKILL.md skillA
session-context-runs-out-mid-brief-measure-first-hand-back-early from wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- License
- MIT
A dispatched session can run out of its context budget before it finishes, and what survives is only what it MEASURED and sent — never the orientation it did. Hours of reading a call path leave nothing transferable; the two cheap readings the brief called unmeasured are the whole inheritance. Use when: (1) a brief names facts as unknown, unchecked or "not measured" and you are deciding what to do first; (2) you are partway through a task and can see the budget will not cover reading plus…
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What the file says
# A session that runs out mid-brief leaves its measurements, not its progress ## Problem A coordinator hands a session a brief. The brief is honest about its own gaps: it names two or three facts as **unmeasured** and says to settle them before relying on them. It also describes the change to build, the tests to add, and the gates to run. The natural order is to understand the system first. So the session reads the code path, maps the callers, finds the guards that will fire, works out the design — and somewhere in there its context budget runs out. Now measure what survives. **Orientation is worth nothing to anyone else.** The understanding lived in a context window that is gone. No file changed, no branch exists, and the next session cannot inherit "I read the reap path and it makes sense". If the named unknowns were also left unmeasured, the successor starts from exactly where the first session started, minus the hours. The inversion is the finding: **the cheapest work in the brief is the only work that is transferable.** A grep that answers "where is this value written?" and a single read-only policy query that answers "can this identity already do that?" …
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How to install
mdr add wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control/session-context-runs-out-mid-brief-measure-first-hand-back-early@sha256:4e32e290fed19d43The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch main
API
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