principle-guard-the-context-window
Skill0 starsChanged 19 days agoMITView on GitHub
Apply when context is filling up: large outputs, long files, repeated reads, fan-out planning. Route bulk to subagents; keep summaries in the main thread, not raw payloads.
45 other projects use a version of this, 42 of them edited.
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- paramcodes/skillsedited, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- tristanphvn/keeledited, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- hidenobunagai/astacktheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- requie/endostacktheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- creedants/pstack-t3edited, first seen Nov 3, 2026
- painhardcore/pstackedited, first seen Nov 2, 2026
Other versions45 projects use a version of this.
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Edited · 42
- backnotprop/pstack★ 3.8k88% same
- jtaroreh/agystack★ 12825% same
- uzairansaruzi/p3-stack★ 12635% same
- dsebban/skills★ 7188% same
- creedants/pstack-t3★ 1894% same
- painhardcore/pstack★ 1894% same
- Scino/fstack★ 1829% same
- mariusflorescu/pstack-t3★ 1388% same
- adjohn/pstack★ 988% same
- kkgogogo17/pi-pstack★ 930% same
32 more not listed
Wrote their own version · 3
- TheOnlyFusionCube/potetos-for-everyone★ 21same name
- requie/endostack★ 4same name
- hidenobunagai/astack★ 1same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 20 edited versions we read keep these.
1
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 6
Read the Codex runtime adapter once per session before using this skill.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 20 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Read the Codex runtime adapter once per session before using this skill. Its tool, model, history, and authorization mappings apply to all linked instructions.
Guard the Context Window
Why: Context overflow degrades reasoning quality, creates compression artifacts, and halts progress.
Pattern:
- Size phases and cap scope. Limit files per phase, set turn budgets, account for mechanism costs.
Does it work?
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Your trail
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Now do this for your own.
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