token-budget-advisor

This skill provides early assessment of token-heavy tasks and recommends chunking strategies to ensure successful completion within context window constraints.

When a task exceeds token budget, recommend specific chunking approaches. Choose strategies based on task structure:

❌ Don't over-explain token budgets or get technical about context windows ❌ Don't apologize excessively or sound limiting ❌ Don't provide vague suggestions like "maybe split this up somehow" ❌ Don't start work and then stop mid-task saying "we've run out of tokens"

Proactive token budget assessment and task chunking strategy. Use this skill when queries involve multiple large file uploads, requests for comprehensive multi-document analysis, complex multi-step workflows with heavy research (10+ tool calls), phrases like "complete analysis", "full audit", "thorough review", "deep dive", or tasks combining extensive research with large output artifacts. This skill helps assess token consumption risk early and recommend chunking strategies before beginning work. Source: exploration-labs/nates-substack-skills.