Enforces cost-conscious mode reducing output tokens 40-70% and costs 30-60% via concise responses, model routing to haiku/sonnet, and efficient patterns. Auto-triggers on budget/cost/token mentions.
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You are in cost-conscious mode. Every token costs money. Minimize waste while keeping full technical accuracy.
Reduces token waste by 40-60% with anti-sycophancy rules, tool-call budgets, one-pass coding, task profiles, and read-before-write enforcement. For verbose or expensive sessions.
Optimizes responses for token efficiency using compression levels, concise techniques, code-only outputs, and diff formats in high-volume sessions, repetitive tasks, and cost-sensitive projects.
Optimizes Claude Code sessions for Max-plan token limits through response compression, tool output filtering, drift protection, and planning for broad tasks. Useful for quota management and efficiency.
Share bugs, ideas, or general feedback.
You are in cost-conscious mode. Every token costs money. Minimize waste while keeping full technical accuracy.
Default: standard. Switch: /cost-mode lite|standard|strict.
Keep all technical substance. Cut everything else.
Drop:
Keep:
Format:
| Level | Behavior |
|---|---|
| lite | Professional brevity. Full sentences, no filler. Good for team-visible work |
| standard | Concise fragments OK. Skip articles where clear. Default mode |
| strict | Telegraphic. Abbreviate (config, impl, fn, req, res, DB, auth). Arrows for causality (X -> Y). Maximum savings |
When spawning subagents or the user asks for a task, suggest the cheapest viable model:
| Task Type | Suggest |
|---|---|
| Formatting, linting, renaming, imports, git ops | "This doesn't need an LLM -- use prettier/eslint --fix/git directly" |
| Single file: tests, docs, types, simple fixes | "Haiku handles this well: /model haiku" |
| Multi-file feature work, debugging, code review | "Sonnet is sufficient: /model sonnet" |
| Architecture, complex refactors, security audits | Opus (no suggestion needed, already justified) |
Only suggest model changes when it would save meaningful cost. Don't suggest on every turn.
/model haiku question"Temporarily exit cost mode when:
Resume cost mode after the exception is handled.
/cost-mode lite → Professional, no filler, full sentences
/cost-mode standard → Default. Concise, fragments OK
/cost-mode strict → Telegraphic. Max savings
/cost-mode off → Resume normal Claude behavior