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Token Efficiency

  • 149 installs
  • 28 repo stars
  • Updated June 29, 2026
  • nickcrew/claude-ctx-plugin

Optimize prompts, context windows, tool outputs, and skill loading so Claude Code sessions stay within budget while preserving answer quality on large repos.

About

Provides practical strategies for reducing LLM token usage in Claude Code by tightening prompts, selective context loading, efficient tool results, and skill design so agents remain fast, affordable, and reliable on large codebases.

  • Context pruning and summarization tactics
  • Smarter skill and tool invocation
  • Reduces cost per agent session
  • Mitigates context overflow errors
  • Improves long-repo coding reliability

Token Efficiency by the numbers

  • 149 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • +6 installs in the week ending Jul 26, 2026 (Skillselion tracking)
  • Ranked #3,335 of 16,556 AI & Agent Building skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Aug 4, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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Installs149
repo stars28
Last updatedJune 29, 2026
Repositorynickcrew/claude-ctx-plugin

What it does

Optimize prompts, context windows, tool outputs, and skill loading so Claude Code sessions stay within budget while preserving answer quality on large repos.

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

Token Efficiency

Compressed communication for limited context windows.

Symbol System

Logic & Flow

SymbolMeaning
leads to, implies
transforms to
rollback
&and
\
»sequence/then
therefore
because

Status

SymbolMeaning
complete/pass
failed/error
⚠️warning
🔄in progress
pending

Domains

SymbolDomain
performance
🔍analysis
🛡️security
🏗️architecture

Abbreviations

  • cfg config
  • impl implementation
  • deps dependencies
  • val validation
  • perf performance
  • sec security
  • err error

Examples

Standard:

"The authentication system has a security vulnerability in the user validation function"

Compressed:

auth.js:45 → 🛡️ sec risk in user val()

Standard:

"Build completed, now running tests, then deploying"

Compressed:

build ✅ » test 🔄 » deploy ⏳

When to Use

  • Context >75% full
  • Large codebase analysis
  • Complex multi-step workflows
  • User requests brevity

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Forks & variants (1)

Token Efficiency has 1 known copy in the catalog totaling 5 installs. They canonicalize to this original listing.

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