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context-switch-budget
Treat context switches as the budget line they are — the switch census (how fragmented the week really is), the batching moves that consolidate scattered same-kind work, the calendar defrag that turns Swiss cheese into slabs, and the switch-cost line for saying no. Use when asked my day is fragmented to death, count my context switches, batch my meetings and reviews, or defend against calendar Swiss cheese. Produces the fragmentation census, the batching plan, the defrag moves, and the protective phrases.
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# Context Switch Budget Skill
The calendar shows eight meetings totaling four hours and calls the other four "free" — but fifteen-minute gaps between meetings are free the way confetti is paper: technically yes, usable no. Each switch costs re-entry time (the mind reloads the last context for 10–20 minutes), and a day of eight switches can contain zero real work while looking half-empty. The budget discipline: *census* the week's actual switches (the number shocks reliably), *batch* the same-kind work (meetings to meeting-blocks, reviews to review-hours, chat to [email-triage-system](../email-triage-system/SKILL.md)-style windows), *defrag* the calendar (consolidate the gaps into slabs worth having), and price new fragmentation at the door.
> **Not quite this?** Use `context-budget` when you mean an LLM's context window and token budget.
## What This Skill Produces
- **The switch census** — the week's transitions counted and typed (meeting↔work, task↔task, interrupt-driven), with the fragmentation map
- **The batching plan** — same-kind work consolidated: the meeting corridors, the review hour, the comms windows
- **The defrag moves** — the specific reschedules that convert cheese-holes into slabs ([deep-work-blocking](../deep-work-blocking/SKILL.md) receives them)
- **The door pricing** — the phrases that protect the defragged shape ("Tuesday corridor?" as the default counter-offer)
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