token-budget-advisor SKILL.md skillA
token-budget-advisor from naimkatiman/continuous-improvement is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/token-budget-advisor@git:20260527.28314a4Pins git:20260527.28314a4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- naimkatiman/continuous-improvement
- Path
plugins/continuous-improvement/skills/token-budget-advisor/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260527.28314a4, committed May 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 27, 2026
- Size
- 6,238 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Enforces Law 2 (Plan Is Sacred) of the 7 Laws of AI Agent Discipline by making token-budget tradeoffs explicit before the response is composed. Offers the user an informed choice about how much response depth to consume before answering. Use this skill when the user explicitly wants to control response length, depth, or token budget. TRIGGER when: "token budget", "token count", "token usage", "token limit", "response length", "answer depth", "short version", "brief answer", "detailed answer…
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
# Token Budget Advisor (TBA) Intercept the response flow to offer the user a choice about response depth **before** the agent answers. ## When to Use - User wants to control how long or detailed a response is - User mentions tokens, budget, depth, or response length - User says "short version", "tldr", "brief", "al 25%", "exhaustive", etc. - Any time the user wants to choose depth/detail level upfront **Do not trigger** when: user already set a level this session (maintain it silently), or the answer is trivially one line. ## How It Works ### Step 1 — Estimate input tokens Use the repository's canonical context-budget heuristics to estimate the prompt's token count mentally. Use the same calibration guidance as `context-budget`: - prose: `words × 1.3` - code-heavy or mixed/code blocks: `chars / 4` For mixed content, use the dominant content type and keep the estimate heuristic. ### Step 2 — Estimate response size by complexity Classify the prompt, then apply the multiplier range to get the full response window: | Complexity | Multiplier range | Example prompts | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/token-budget-advisor@sha256:aecc3ac528fa44bbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260527.28314a4, 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 Apr 27, 2026 and May 27, 2026, about one every 7 days.
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| git:20260527.28314a4 latest | 2026-05-27 | 28314a4 | 6,238 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260429.e20f1ca | 2026-04-29 | e20f1ca | 6,266 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260428.14cb86b | 2026-04-28 | 14cb86b | 6,118 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260427.56c3ed4 | 2026-04-27 | 56c3ed4 | 6,115 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260427.404b680 | 2026-04-27 | 404b680 | 6,105 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 (6238 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
naimkatiman/continuous-improvement · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_q4tst3dkulmzzvxl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/token-budget-advisor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/aecc3ac528fa44bbc4eb9d5f55e5444b01699c64626091e9870e1f49000e6ed4
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