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everything-claude-code/commands/context-budget.md
vazidmansuri005 0efd6ed914 feat(commands): add /context-budget optimizer command (#554)
* feat(commands): add /context-budget optimizer command

Adds a command that audits context window token consumption across
agents, skills, rules, MCP servers, and CLAUDE.md files.

Detects bloated agent descriptions, redundant components, MCP
over-subscription, and CLAUDE.md bloat. Produces a prioritized
report with specific token savings per optimization.

Directly relevant to #434 (agent descriptions too verbose, ~26k
tokens causing performance warnings).

* fix: address review feedback on context-budget command

- Add $ARGUMENTS to enable --verbose flag passthrough
- Fix MCP token estimate: 45 tools × ~500 tokens = ~22,500 (was ~2,200)
- Fix heavy agents example: all 3 now exceed 200-line threshold
- Fix description threshold: warning at >30 words, fail at >50 words
- Add Step 4 instructions (was empty)
- Fix audit cadence: "quarterly" → "regularly" + "monthly" consistently
- Fix Output Format heading level under Step 4
- Replace "Antigravity" with generic "harness versions"
- Recalculate total overhead to match corrected MCP numbers

* fix: correct MCP tool count and savings percentage in sample output

- Fix MCP tool count: table now shows 87 tools matching the issues
  section (was 45 in table vs 87 in issues)
- Fix savings percentage: 5,100 / 66,400 = 7.7% (was 20.6%)
- Recalculate total overhead and effective context to match

* fix: correct sample output arithmetic

- Fix total overhead: 66,400 → 66,100 to match component table sum
  (12,400 + 6,200 + 2,800 + 43,500 + 1,200 = 66,100)
- Fix MCP savings: ~1,500 → ~27,500 tokens (55 tools × 500 tokens/tool)
  to match the per-tool formula defined in Step 1
- Reorder optimizations by savings (MCP removal is now #1)
- Fix total savings and percentage (31,100 / 66,100 = 47.0%)

* fix: distinguish always-on vs on-demand agent overhead

Agent descriptions are always loaded into Task tool routing context,
but the full agent body is only loaded when invoked. The audit now
measures both: description-only tokens as always-on overhead and
full-file tokens as worst-case overhead. This resolves the
contradiction between Step 1 (counting full files) and Tip 1 (saying
only descriptions are loaded per session).

* fix: simplify agent accounting and resolve inconsistencies

- Revert to single agent overhead metric (full file tokens) — simpler
  and matches what the report actually displays
- Add back 200-line threshold for heavy agents in Step 1
- Fix heavy agents action to match issue type (split/trim, not
  description-only)
- Remove .agents/skills/ scan path (doesn't exist in ECC repo)
- Consolidate description threshold to single 30-word check

* fix: add model assumption and verbose mode activation

- Step 4: assume 200K context window by default (Claude has no way to
  introspect its model at runtime)
- Step 4: add explicit instruction to check $ARGUMENTS for --verbose
  flag and include additional output when present

* fix: handle .agents/skills/ duplicates in skill scan

Skills scan now checks .agents/skills/ for Codex harness copies and
skips identical duplicates to avoid double-counting overhead.

* fix: add savings estimate to heavy agents action for consistency

* feat(skills): add context-budget backing skill, slim command to delegator

* fix: use structurally detectable classification criteria instead of session frequency

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Co-authored-by: vazidmansuri005 <vazidmansuri005@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-03-20 00:20:23 -07:00

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description
description
Analyze context window usage across agents, skills, MCP servers, and rules to find optimization opportunities. Helps reduce token overhead and avoid performance warnings.

Context Budget Optimizer

Analyze your Claude Code setup's context window consumption and produce actionable recommendations to reduce token overhead.

Usage

/context-budget [--verbose]
  • Default: summary with top recommendations
  • --verbose: full breakdown per component

$ARGUMENTS

What to Do

Run the context-budget skill (skills/context-budget/SKILL.md) with the following inputs:

  1. Pass --verbose flag if present in $ARGUMENTS
  2. Assume a 200K context window (Claude Sonnet default) unless the user specifies otherwise
  3. Follow the skill's four phases: Inventory → Classify → Detect Issues → Report
  4. Output the formatted Context Budget Report to the user

The skill handles all scanning logic, token estimation, issue detection, and report formatting.