context-budget SKILL.md skillA
context-budget from univers42/claude-deal-with-the-devil is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add univers42/claude-deal-with-the-devil/context-budget@git:20261017.fcaf2ccPins git:20261017.fcaf2cc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- univers42/claude-deal-with-the-devil
- Path
skills/context-budget/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261017.fcaf2cc, committed Oct 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 20, 2026
- Size
- 4,138 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- none declared
Measure and cut what a config costs in context every session: always-on rules, invocable descriptions, skills that never fire. Use when the window fills before any work starts, a session compacts mid-task, or it is unclear what loads every session. Auto-triggers on: "reduce token usage", "context is full", "what is loading", "trim the config", "context budget", "why is my context so big".
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 Configuration is not free. Every always-on rule and every skill description is in the window before you type anything, on every session, forever. The cost is invisible, which is why it grows. This repo shipped 11 rules using Cursor's `globs:`/`alwaysApply:` fields — which Claude Code does not read — so **22,018 bytes loaded on every session**, including the Go and REST rules on a Python project. Nothing reported it, because nothing measured it. ## 1. Measure ```sh devil context # always-on vs lazy, per file /skill-doctor # which loaded skills never actually fire ``` The number that matters is **always-on total**: always-on rules plus every invocable's `description:`. Everything else loads only when it is needed. ## 2. Know what loads when | Loads | What | | --- | --- | | **Every session** | `rules/*.md` with **no** `paths:` — full text | | **Every session** | the `description:` of every skill, command and workflow | | On a matching file | `rules/*.md` **with** `paths:` | | On invocation | a skill, command or workflow body | | In its own context only | an agent definition | The whole lever is in the first two rows. ## 3. The cuts, in order of return …
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How to install
mdr add univers42/claude-deal-with-the-devil/context-budget@sha256:b8665c24dfd28bb8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261017.fcaf2cc, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 20, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 7 days.
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| git:20261017.fcaf2cc latest | 2026-10-17 | fcaf2cc | 4,138 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.06ed519 | 2026-09-30 | 06ed519 | 4,128 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.a77cb5e | 2026-09-30 | a77cb5e | 4,045 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.445fa69 | 2026-09-30 | 445fa69 | 4,004 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.16937ef | 2026-09-20 | 16937ef | 4,079 B | A | view |
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 (4138 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
univers42/claude-deal-with-the-devil · 4 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mxqvz7f5og4pxf6o GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=univers42/claude-deal-with-the-devil/context-budget GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b8665c24dfd28bb83977a2a32329b8d3c7b630709a4f53d590f2f97c46749913
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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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