token-budget-monitor

What problem does it solves? Users often hit Claude's conversation token limits unexpectedly during long or tool-heavy sessions, leading to lost context and interrupted workflows. This skill proactively monitors token usage and provides timely warnings, allowing users to save work and plan conversation breaks.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Proactive Usage Monitoring: Tracks current token usage and conversation pace.
• Predictive Warnings: Estimates when limits will be reached and issues warnings at critical thresholds (70%, 85%, 95%).
• Personalized Strategy: Adapts monitoring and warning frequency based on user's historical usage patterns (e.g., heavy tool user, long sessions).
• Use Case: During a multi-hour skill development session, Claude warns you at 85% token usage, suggesting you commit your work and prepare to start a new conversation to avoid losing context.

Quick Start

This skill operates automatically in the background.

Claude will proactively alert you based on your conversation patterns.

Example of an alert:

Claude (checking tokens): "💡 Token check: We're at ~120k/190k tokens (63%). At our current tool-heavy pace, we have about 1-2 hours left. Let's finish the skill-manager enhancement, commit everything, then start fresh for the YouTube extractor work. Sound good?"