Skill: Token Budget Management

Name: token-budget Description: Token efficiency patterns for long AI coding sessions Trigger: Long sessions, complex multi-step tasks, session optimization

Objective

Maximize session duration beyond 12 hours through intelligent orchestration.

Budget Caps

Lead Orchestrator Pattern

Phase 1: Planning (Lead - 1000 tokens)

1. Analyze request scope
2. Break into discrete tasks
3. Identify parallelization opportunities
4. Select appropriate agents
5. Define validation criteria

Phase 2: Delegation (Agents - 750 tokens each)

• Spawn agents in parallel for independent tasks
• Sequential for dependencies
• Focused context (only what's needed)
• Clear success criteria

Phase 3: Integration (Lead - 1000 tokens)

• Collect results
• Run quality checks (cargo check, clippy, fmt, test)
• Coordinate commits
• Update documentation

Token Conservation Techniques

Target Metrics

• Agent utilization: >80% (most work by agents)
• Parallelization: >40% (many concurrent)
• Session duration: >12 hours

Efficiency Guidelines

• DO NOT create documentation files unless explicitly requested
• DO leverage specialized agents proactively
• DO use concise responses - skip verbose explanations when action is clear

Proactive Agent Usage

AI assistants MUST invoke specialized agents immediately without waiting to be asked: