Claude Code skill listing budget formula
Parent: Mac local LLMs: Agent clients, context and compaction · Published reference · snapshot 2026-10-05
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Docs: the budget scales at 1% of the model's context window; on overflow, descriptions drop starting with the least-invoked skills; every name stays.
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Facts
- Docs: the budget scales at 1% of the model's context window; on overflow, descriptions drop starting with the least-invoked skills; every name stays. [source]
- The skills page says the Skills row in /context reports the listing after budget; a debug-log warning appears on overflow (existing dossier). [source]
- Exact formula, including how tokens convert to characters and why a name-only floor exists. [source]
- The skills docs state only the 1% of context window rule, the skillListingBudgetFraction setting, the SLASH_COMMAND_TOOL_CHAR_BUDGET override and the 1,536-character per-entry cap; they give no characters-per-token factor or minimum [source]
- This claim set adds nothing beyond agent-skill-listing-injection-cost.md [source]
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