context-engineering SKILL.md skillA
context-engineering from a5c-ai/babysitter is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add a5c-ai/babysitter/context-engineering@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- a5c-ai/babysitter
- Path
library/methodologies/gsd/skills/context-engineering/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Jun 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 25, 2026
- Size
- 7,247 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,891
- License
- MIT
Context window monitoring and budget management. Keeps orchestrator at 15-30% context usage while subagents get full 200k tokens. Provides warnings at thresholds, context-aware summarization triggers, and wave-level budget planning.
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
- **Subagents**: Get full 200k tokens of fresh context per spawn. - **Context budget**: Plan how much context each wave of execution will consume. This skill provides: - Context window usage estimation for the current session - Warning injection at configurable thresholds (70%, 85%, 95%) - Orchestrator budget enforcement - Subagent context allocation recommendations - Context-aware summarization triggers - Stale context detection and pruning suggestions - Wave-level context budget planning ## Capabilities ### 1. Context Usage Estimation Estimate current context window usage based on conversation history size: ``` Tokens used: ~45,000 / 200,000 Usage: 22.5% Status: HEALTHY Next threshold: 70% (warning) at ~140,000 tokens ``` Estimation methods: - Character count / 4 (rough approximation) - Tool output tracking (each tool call adds to context) - File read accumulation tracking ### 2. Threshold Warnings Inject warnings at configurable thresholds: ``` [CONTEXT 70%] Warning: Context window at 70%. Consider summarizing completed work. [CONTEXT 85%] Critical: Context window at 85%. Spawn new subagent for remaining work. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add a5c-ai/babysitter/context-engineering@sha256:23b2902fd0a7ba61The 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 25, 2026 and Jun 1, 2026, about one every 17 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-06-01 | da7723a | 7,247 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-05-07 | 9f5be95 | 7,455 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260507.8dfdcb4 | 2026-05-07 | 8dfdcb4 | 7,450 B | C | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-05-07 | 56f011d | 7,866 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-03-25 | a6b3a88 | 7,595 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 (7247 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
a5c-ai/babysitter · 1,891 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_u7crnjuo4254d5wi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=a5c-ai/babysitter/context-engineering GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/23b2902fd0a7ba61141396f960a690d8c842e0eb31f8cb586efbd31e55f1ac44
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