context-budget SKILL.md skillA
context-budget from frankxai/claude-skills-library is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add frankxai/claude-skills-library/context-budget@git:20261010.682b2cePins git:20261010.682b2ce in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- frankxai/claude-skills-library
- Path
absorbed/harness/context-budget/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261010.682b2ce, committed Oct 10, 2026
- Size
- 1,718 bytes
- Repository stars
- 47
- License
- MIT
Count what a session loads before adding another skill or MCP server. Use when the default prompt is heavy, a new server is about to be enabled, or a skill has never been invoked.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Context budget for this estate A skill that sits in the default prompt costs tokens on every turn. A skill that loads only when its description matches does not. Measure the default prompt before you add anything. ## Caps already in force - Turn-0 skill listing stays near 8,000 tokens. A listing near 18,000 is over budget. - Skill Foundry on 2026-10-09 counted 402 Claude skills and 380 with no invocation in 30 days. Retirement of those skills is Frank's decision. Until then, new skills stay cold. - A new skill enters the default prompt only after it has a saved eval. - Enabled MCP servers stay under 10. Tool count stays under 80. A server that only wraps `gh`, `vercel`, or `npx` should be a CLI call. - Keep a docs tool such as Context7. Leave Higgsfield disabled. - The continuous-learning observer stays off until the unused skills are retired. An observer that promotes new skills into the prompt makes the budget worse. ## What to report - Servers enabled, and the tool count. - Skills in the default prompt, and skills that have an eval. - The one removal that frees the most tools. - Whether the thing you wanted to add already exists under `starlight/repos`. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add frankxai/claude-skills-library/context-budget@sha256:577ece781c0cbcb2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261010.682b2ce, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ekv5ztjui6z6dfx7)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 10, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (1718 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
frankxai/claude-skills-library · 47 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ekv5ztjui6z6dfx7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=frankxai/claude-skills-library/context-budget GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/577ece781c0cbcb20e5be838560a3ba3931eb2662d1ea2f86eec43d94074e962
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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