Use when a coding session is burning context fast, output is drowning in noise, the model keeps forgetting earlier decisions, or the user asks to reduce tokens, stop the verbose narration, work in a huge repo, or make a long session survive. Covers what to read, what to summarize, what to write to disk, and when to start fresh.
Install
npx skills add OneWave-AI/claude-skills --skill context-budgetnpx skills add OneWave-AI/claude-skills --skill context-budget -a claude-code -gnpx skills add OneWave-AI/claude-skills --skill context-budget -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/OneWave-AI/claude-skills.git --path context-budgetgh skill install OneWave-AI/claude-skills context-budgetgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OneWave-AI/claude-skills /tmp/OneWave-AI__claude-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/OneWave-AI__claude-skills/context-budget ~/.claude/skills/context-budget # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/OneWave-AI__claude-skills/context-budget ~/.agents/skills/context-budget # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode