budget-tokens

name	budget-tokens
description	Compute cost per request and right-size the context to fewest-high-precision chunks. Reach for this on a cost/context question.

Skill: Budget tokens

More context is not better, and it costs tokens (§3 #5).

Step 1 — Count the tokens

Input (context + prompt) + output tokens per request (§3 #5).

Step 2 — Compute cost

Tokens × per-1k price × requests via ai_rag_engineering_calc.py token-cost; mark prices unverified (§3 #8).

Step 3 — Right-size context

Fewest high-precision chunks — guard against lost-in-the-middle (§3 #5).

Step 4 — Check the fit

Confirm chunk size × top-k fits the window via ai_rag_engineering_calc.py chunk-budget (§3 #5).

Output

A token-cost read and a right-sized context recommendation with the monthly projection.