Budget — Development skill for Claude Code
Use when you want to review session turn usage or set a context awareness target for the current project.
How to install Budget
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/ntanner-ctrl-claude-sail-budget/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ntanner-ctrl-claude-sail-budget && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ntanner-ctrl/claude-sail/HEAD/commands/budget.md -o ~/.claude/skills/ntanner-ctrl-claude-sail-budget/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Budget does
description: Use when you want to review session turn usage or set a context awareness target for the current project. arguments:
- name: threshold description: Subcommand — set an awareness target turn count (e.g. "threshold 100") required: false
- name: N description: Turn count for the awareness target (used with "threshold" subcommand) required: false
Budget
Session turn awareness tool. Reads `.claude/budget.jsonl` to summarize historical session usage and opt
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- Continue Session — Quickly continue work by loading context from SESSION.md, showing current state, and continuing from "Next Act 88 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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