What are the different rehydration levels?

You can choose from three levels: Essential (requirements and current state), Standard (adds key decisions), and Comprehensive (restores full history and tool metadata).

Can I monitor my token usage in real-time?

Yes, the skill provides a status tool that calculates current usage and predicts how many tool operations you have left based on your current burn rate.

Does this skill work automatically?

Yes, it includes auto-summarization triggers at various thresholds (starting at 30% usage) and integrates with the PreCompact hook to save data as a safety net.

How does this differ from Claude's built-in compaction?

While Claude's compaction is reactive and automatic, this skill is proactive. it allows you to intelligently snapshot specific architectural decisions and requirements before they are lost, giving you manual control over what state to restore.

Context Management

Name: Context Management
Author: rysweet

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Productivity & Workflow

Optimizes Claude Code's context window through proactive token monitoring, intelligent state snapshots, and priority-based rehydration.

The Context Management skill empowers developers to maintain high productivity during long-running Claude Code sessions by preventing critical information loss. It monitors token usage in real-time, provides predictive warnings before limits are reached, and allows for the creation of intelligent snapshots that prioritize core requirements and architectural decisions over verbose logs. When a conversation is compacted, users can selectively rehydrate context at different granularity levels—Essential, Standard, or Comprehensive—ensuring that the AI always has the most relevant information without wasting the token budget.

Key Features

01Priority-based retention that preserves requirements while archiving verbose logs

02Multi-level rehydration allowing users to restore context by importance

03Automated snapshot triggers at 70%, 85%, and 95% token usage

04Visual health indicators (OK, WATCH, WARN, CRITICAL) for session status

05Predictive budget monitoring to forecast when token thresholds will be reached

0616 GitHub stars

Use Cases

01Preserving architectural decisions and project requirements during multi-hour coding sessions

02Packaging and transferring session state for team handoffs or context switching

03Efficiently resuming work after Claude Code compacts a long conversation history

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add rysweet/amplihack context-management

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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