Research first: Which .claude/rules/*.md files lack paths scoping? Which skills are candidates for disable-model-invocation? Can domain-router subagents with skills field replace always-on orchestrator skill loading? See .planning/research/context-optimization-research.md
Reduce session-start context load via rules path-scoping and disable-model-invocation
Session context is at 50% before any work begins. Root causes identified: (1) All custom agent descriptions load at session start (~5k tokens for 50+ agents) with no lazy loading mechanism. (2) CLAUDE.md files load unconditionally and in full (~18k tokens for memory files). (3) All plugin skills load descriptions at startup. Research confirmed these optimization primitives exist but are unused: 'paths' frontmatter in .claude/rules/*.md loads rule only when working with matching file patterns; 'd
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Updated Reduce session-start context load via rules path-scoping and disable-model-invocation by tools-only · 81dedde
npx skillmds@latest add tools-only/reduce-session-start-context-load-via-rules-path-scoping-and File contents
---name: reduce-session-start-context-load-via-rules-path-scoping-anddescription: Session context is at 50% before any work begins. Root causes identified: (1) All custom agent descriptions load at session start (~5k tokens for 50+ agents) with no lazy loading mechanism. (2) CLAUDE.md files load unconditionally and in full (~18k tokens for memory files). (3) All plugin skills load descriptions at startup. Research confirmed these optimization primitives exist but are unused: 'paths' frontmatter in .claude/rules/*.md loads rule only when working with matching file patterns; 'd---**Research first**: Which .claude/rules/*.md files lack paths scoping? Which skills are candidates for disable-model-invocation? Can domain-router subagents with skills field replace always-on orchestrator skill loading? See .planning/research/context-optimization-research.md
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Session context is at 50% before any work begins. Root causes identified: (1) All custom agent descriptions load at session start (~5k tokens for 50+ agents) with no lazy loading mechanism. (2) CLAUDE.md files load unconditionally and in full (~18k tokens for memory files). (3) All plugin skills load descriptions at startup. Research confirmed these optimization primitives exist but are unused: 'paths' frontmatter in .claude/rules/*.md loads rule only when working with matching file patterns; 'd It is listed under AI & ML on SkillMD.
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