aaf-cost-context

What problem does it solve?

This Skill addresses the critical need to manage and optimize the financial costs and contextual information within agentic AI systems, preventing budget overruns and ensuring efficient operation.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Cost Management: Implements strategies for model selection, token volume control, and tool call optimization to reduce expenses.
• Context Discipline: Enforces rules for managing prompt size, separating context from memory, and ensuring minimal sufficient context is used.
• Budgeting: Allows for the definition and enforcement of explicit budgets (steps, tokens, time, spend) to shape agent behavior.
• Model Routing: Facilitates intelligent routing of tasks to appropriate models based on cost, latency, and quality requirements.
• Use Case: When deploying an agent that interacts with multiple external APIs and LLMs, use this skill to set a daily budget, route simpler tasks to cheaper models, and ensure that only essential information is passed in each API call to minimize token usage.

Quick Start

Use the aaf-cost-context skill to enforce a maximum token budget of 4096 for all agent interactions.