Skills to Reduce Token Usage
Cut context bloat and spend fewer tokens per session
Best Claude Code skills to reduce token usage and context bloat. Compress memory files, cut filler, and budget your context so sessions run longer and cost less.
Featured skills
caveman
Ultra-compressed communication mode.
context-mode
Use context-mode tools (ctx_execute, ctx_execute_file) instead of Bash/cat when processing large outputs.
context-budget
Audits Claude Code context window consumption across agents, skills, MCP servers, and rules.
token-budget-advisor
Offers the user an informed choice about how much response depth to consume before answering.
cost-tracking
Track and report Claude Code token usage, spending, and budgets from the local ECC cost-tracker metrics log.
caveman-compress
Compress natural language memory files (CLAUDE.md, todos, preferences) into caveman format to save input tokens.
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