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principle-guard-the-context-window

principle-guard-the-context-window

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About principle-guard-the-context-window

Guard the Context Window is an agent principle skill for reducing context overflow that can impair reasoning or halt work. It recommends limiting phase scope, file counts, and turn budgets while accounting for mechanism costs.

Key features

  1. 01Limits files handled per phase
  2. 02Sets turn budgets
  3. 03Accounts for mechanism costs

Use cases

  1. 01Planning work across bounded phases
  2. 02Reducing context overflow during agent tasks

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/backnotprop/pstack --skill principle-guard-the-context-window

After installing, type/principle-guard-the-context-windowin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Details

From the project README

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.

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