token-budget-advisor
Offer a choice of response depth (25%/50%/75%/100%) with token estimates before answering, then answer at that level. Use when the user asks to control response length or token budget, such as 'token budget', 'short version', 'brief answer', 'respuesta corta vs larga', 'cuántos tokens', 'ahorrar tokens', 'responde al 5…
- Kind
- Skill
- Works with
- Claude Code, Codex
- Source
- affaan-m/ECC @ d3b8a3e90890
- Path
- skills/token-budget-advisor/SKILL.md
- License
- MIT
- Jobs
- Context management
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# Token Budget Advisor (TBA) Intercept the response flow to offer the user a choice about response depth **before** Claude answers. ## When to Use - User wants to control how long or detailed a response is - User mentions tokens, budget, depth, or response length - User says "short version", "tldr", "brief", "al 25%", "exhaustive", etc. - Any time the user wants to choose depth/detail level upfront **Do not trigger** when: user already set a level this session (maintain it silently), or the answer is trivially one line. ## How It Works ### Step 1 — Estimate input tokens Use the repository's canonical context-budget heuristics to estimate the prompt's token count mentally. Use the same calibration guidance as [context-budget](../context-budget/SKILL.md): - prose: `words × 1.3` - code-heavy or mixed/code blocks: `chars / 4` For mixed content, use the dominant content type and keep the estimate heuristic. ### Step 2 — Estimate response size by complexity Classify the prompt, then apply the multiplier range to get the full response window: | Complexity | Multiplier range | Example prompts | …