Context Budget Review

Context Budget Review

This is a Hermes-native context-budget-review workflow skill.

Why This Exists

context-budget-review ports ECC's context-budget and token-budget instincts into OMH as a compactness gate that protects long-running work without redefining success around a smaller task.

Do Not Use When

• The user asks for live token/cost telemetry; use ops-observability-card.
• The user asks to continue a loopable goal; use loop unless budget planning is the explicit blocker.
• The task is a short one-step answer with no meaningful context risk.

Examples

Good example:

• Prompt: context-budget-review 이 장기 PR 작업에서 어떤 맥락을 꼭 유지하고 언제 요약해야 하는지 잡아줘.
• Expected behavior: Prepare context_budget_plan/v1, must_keep_context_pack/v1, checkpoint plan, risk register, and overflow recovery route.
• Why: The request is about preserving context quality during long-running agent work.

Bad example:

• Prompt: context-budget-review 토큰 아끼려고 원래 목표를 더 작은 목표로 바꿔줘.
• Expected behavior: Reject goal shrinking and instead compact context while preserving the full objective and evidence gaps.
• Why: Budget review optimizes context handling, not the user's requested end state.

Completion Checklist

• The run or workflow scope, metric window, failure modes, and cost/latency boundary are named.
• Local telemetry, provider truth, billing truth, and completion evidence are separate states.
• Warnings name the next measurement or operator review action.

Recovery Notes

• If provider metrics are unavailable, report only local metadata and mark provider truth not_observed.
• If cost or latency looks risky, surface a warning plus the next measurement rather than a completion claim.

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