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principle-guard-the-context-window

principle-guard-the-context-window

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About principle-guard-the-context-window

A context-management skill for agents that limits phase scope and file counts, and accounts for mechanism costs to reduce context overflow.

Key features

  1. 01Limit files in each phase
  2. 02Set turn budgets
  3. 03Account for mechanism costs

Use cases

  1. 01Scoping multi-phase agent work
  2. 02Reducing context overflow during tasks

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/cursor/plugins --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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