robinryuk c00eb80904 feat(skills): context-budget — account for reconnect scaffolding ...

context-budget inventories components that load once at startup. On a reconnect the
app re-injects much of that inventory into the session transcript as attachment lines,
and that lands in the same context window.

Measured on a session that had reconnected once: 33,884 of 49,830 bytes was
scaffolding — skill_listing 14.6KB, mcp_instructions_delta 8.1KB, deferred_tools_delta
7.1KB, agent_listing_delta 2.6KB — against 15.9KB of actual conversation.

Adds a measure-it-yourself snippet, a >40% flag, and the consequence for the rest of
the skill: a trimmed skill or MCP server saves tokens once per reconnect, not once per
session. Also notes that transcript size is a poor proxy for context fullness unless
attachment lines are excluded.

2026-08-19 08:41:22 +07:00

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SKILL.md

feat(skills): context-budget — account for reconnect scaffolding

2026-08-19 08:41:22 +07:00