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context-budget-discipline

Use when sessions run long, adding subagents, fetching large files, or planning context-heavy work. SELECT/WRITE/COMPRESS/ISOLATE discipline.

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# Context Budget Discipline

Context is a finite resource. Every token competes for the model's attention. The "lost-in-the-middle" phenomenon is real — content buried in 50% of the window position is least attended.

This skill applies four operations to keep the budget sane.

## The Four Operations

```
SELECT     load context just-in-time, not all-at-once
WRITE      persist to disk; let the filesystem remember, not chat
COMPRESS   summarize older turns when window fills
ISOLATE    delegate so child work doesn't pollute parent context
```