Token Budget

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps AI agents manage their token usage effectively, preventing context windows from overflowing and ensuring high-quality output by prioritizing essential information.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Token Estimation: Provides guidelines for estimating token counts for different content types and file sizes.
• Budget Tracking: Implements a protocol for monitoring token usage against defined thresholds (PEAK, GOOD, DEGRADING, POOR).
• Optimization Strategies: Recommends techniques like progressive loading, just-in-time loading, and search-first approaches.
• Use Case: An agent needs to process a large codebase. This skill guides it to first load only file outlines, then specific functions, and finally full files only if absolutely necessary, all while tracking token consumption to stay within limits.

Quick Start

Use the token budget skill to estimate the token count for the attached file 'main.py'.