Your Claude Code skills are being silently demoted. I built a CLI to catch it

Описание и применение

CLI‑инструмент skill‑tax‑cli позволяет предсказывать, какие навыки Claude Code будут скрыты из контекста из‑за превышения бюджета, и интегрируется в CI.

Задача

Claude Code skills can be silently dropped from the model’s context when the skill listing exceeds a 1% budget, without any UI warning.

Результат

The CLI provides deterministic exit codes (0 clean, 1 silent drops, 2 config error) and JSON output, enabling integration into CI/pre‑commit hooks to prevent silent skill exclusion.

Рабочий процесс

• pip install skill-tax-cli
• skill-tax-cli list <skill_sources>
• skill-tax-cli audit --window <size> <skill_sources>
• skill-tax-cli gate --window <size> <skill_sources>

Доказательства

Every skill you install injects its name and description into the model's context on every turn — used or not.

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When the listing overflows, it drops descriptions starting with your least-used skills.

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I built a CLI that finds these skills before it happens.

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Exit codes are 0 clean / 1 silent drops / 2 config error, and every command has --json — so it drops straight into pre-commit hooks and CI.

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