Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
principle-guard-the-context-window
Agent skill frombacknotprop/pstack
Apply when context is filling up: large outputs, long files, repeated reads, fan-out planning. Route bulk to subagents; keep summaries in the main thread, not raw payloads.
How to install principle-guard-the-context-window
npx skills add backnotprop/pstack# or add only this skill to Claude Code: copy the folder
skills/principle-guard-the-context-window/
# into
~/.claude/skills/principle-guard-the-context-window/ (all projects)
.claude/skills/principle-guard-the-context-window/ (one project)
1# Guard the Context Window23**Why:** Context overflow degrades reasoning quality, creates compression artifacts, and halts progress.45**Pattern:**6- **Size phases and cap scope.** Limit files per phase, set turn budgets, account for mechanism costs.
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