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Progressive disclosure means 80 skills can cost 3,200 tokens of metadata, or zero. Here is how we classify every skill in the Statnive repo into always-on, auto-invocable, manual-only, or fork — and the one-question test we use to decide.
Twenty-four MCP connectors were consuming roughly 60% of our context window before any work began. Turning on Tool Search dropped it to ~3K tokens. Here is the /context output before and after, plus the consolidation patterns that helped.
We stripped the project-root CLAUDE.md from 820 lines to 162 without losing guardrails. The trick was replacing inline protocols with a skill trigger table and moving domain rules into nested files and path-scoped rules.
A WordPress plugin team's actual token budget — 80+ skills, 24 MCP connectors, and a 200K context window. What we measured, what we cut, and the four numbers that now gate every release.