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name: context-checkup\ndescription: Audit what auto-loads into an agent session's context window and suggest lean, reversible fixes to cut startup tokens.\ndisable-model-invocation: true\ntype: flow\nlicense: MIT\nmetadata:\nversion: \"1.2\"

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Context checkup

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Find what loads automatically into the session's context at startup, quantify it, and propose\nreversible trims ranked by payoff — shrink the startup context window by cutting what isn't\nworth its tokens. Read-only — measure and recommend; change settings only on explicit approval.

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Mental model (spend attention top-down)

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Cost hierarchy, biggest first:

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  1. MCP tool schemas — large, but deferred by tool search. Only a problem if tool search is\nOFF.
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  2. Always-on text — CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md chain, @imports, and skill/agent/command\ndescriptions (every available one's description loads every session).
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  3. MCP server instructions — load per enabled server at startup; a chatty preamble can dwarf its\ntool names.
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  4. MCP tool names — ~10 tokens each. Cheap; 30 names ≈ 300 tokens isn't worth a recommendation.
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Rules: measure, never guess — wc/count, then attach a rough token figure to each finding.\nRank by tokens-saved × reversibility. Distinguish auto-loaded from lazy-linked (nested\nAGENTS.md referenced from a parent are not loaded — don't flag them).

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Tool-name counts, the skills/agents/commands lists, and tool-search status come from the session's\nsystem-reminders, not disk — read them from your own context.

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Checklist

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0. Verify tool search is on first. If ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH is disabled, MCP schemas load eagerly\nand every \"names are cheap\" conclusion flips. Check this before anything else.

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1. Always-on docs. Measure the CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md chain: project file + every parent dir up\nto root + global ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md. Expand @import lines (recursive). wc -w each.

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2. Descriptions (often the largest unexamined chunk). Skim the in-session lists of skills,\nsubagent types, and slash commands — their descriptions are always loaded. Many rarely-used\nentries = standing cost.

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3. MCP servers. From .mcp.json + settings, list enabled servers. Count tool names per\nserver; note any server with long instructions. Flag servers irrelevant to the user's work.

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4. Enablement levers. Read ~/.claude/settings.json, project .claude/settings.json,\n.claude/settings.local.json. Check enableAllProjectMcpServers, enabledMcpjsonServers,\nenabledPlugins. Precedence: managed > local > project > user. Each plugin can pull in MCP servers,\nskills, agents, hooks.

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5. Memory. Size of MEMORY.md index.

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Output

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A short sizes table (source → ≈ tokens → auto-loaded? → relevant to user's work?), then a\nprioritized action list. For each action give the exact setting/file edit, the rough savings, and\nhow to reverse it (prefer per-session toggles). Skip anything under ~a few hundred tokens unless\nasked to be exhaustive. Then ask before editing.

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Useful probes

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# always-on doc chain (run from project root; also check parent dirs + ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md)\nfor f in CLAUDE.md AGENTS.md ../CLAUDE.md ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md; do [ -f \"$f\" ] && wc -w \"$f\"; done\n# enabled MCP + settings\ncat .mcp.json; cat .claude/settings.json .claude/settings.local.json ~/.claude/settings.json 2>/dev/null\n
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