From 066cbb7037b072880f3fc4fa8d29efdfa3cdccd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian lechner <j.lechner@sobit.at>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:38:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(prompt-budget): count all startup skill metadata

---
 adapters/prompt-budget-baseline.json | 10 +++++++---
 adapters/prompt-budget-baseline.tsv  |  8 +++++---
 scripts/lib/prompt-budget.py         |  8 +++++---
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/adapters/prompt-budget-baseline.json b/adapters/prompt-budget-baseline.json
index 0c49676..ac739ab 100644
--- a/adapters/prompt-budget-baseline.json
+++ b/adapters/prompt-budget-baseline.json
@@ -4,11 +4,15 @@
   "permanent_context_hard_limit_tokens": 6000,
   "metrics": {
     "permanent_context_tokens": {
-      "claude": 1481,
-      "codex": 1481
+      "claude": 4029,
+      "codex": 2603
+    },
+    "instruction_tokens": {
+      "claude": 1479,
+      "codex": 1479
     },
     "skill_metadata_tokens": {
-      "claude": 1124,
+      "claude": 2550,
       "codex": 1124
     },
     "rule_catalog_tokens": {
diff --git a/adapters/prompt-budget-baseline.tsv b/adapters/prompt-budget-baseline.tsv
index c7645ab..08e78fd 100644
--- a/adapters/prompt-budget-baseline.tsv
+++ b/adapters/prompt-budget-baseline.tsv
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 metric	client	baseline_tokens
-permanent_context_tokens	claude	1481
-permanent_context_tokens	codex	1481
-skill_metadata_tokens	claude	1124
+permanent_context_tokens	claude	4029
+permanent_context_tokens	codex	2603
+instruction_tokens	claude	1479
+instruction_tokens	codex	1479
+skill_metadata_tokens	claude	2550
 skill_metadata_tokens	codex	1124
 rule_catalog_tokens	claude	28036
 rule_catalog_tokens	codex	8058
diff --git a/scripts/lib/prompt-budget.py b/scripts/lib/prompt-budget.py
index 493aeb5..c0c9ae4 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/prompt-budget.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/prompt-budget.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from pathlib import Path
 
 METRICS = (
     'permanent_context_tokens',
+    'instruction_tokens',
     'skill_metadata_tokens',
     'rule_catalog_tokens',
     'agent_metadata_tokens',
@@ -35,7 +36,6 @@ def measure_package(package, client):
     skill_metadata_bytes = sum(
         len(read_frontmatter(path))
         for path in skill_root.rglob('SKILL.md')
-        if path.relative_to(skill_root).parts[0] != 'rules'
     )
 
     if client == 'claude':
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ def measure_package(package, client):
             agent_metadata_bytes += sum(len(agent.get(key, '').encode('utf-8')) for key in ('name', 'description'))
 
     return {
-        'permanent_context_tokens': tokens(instruction_bytes),
+        'permanent_context_tokens': tokens(instruction_bytes + skill_metadata_bytes),
+        'instruction_tokens': tokens(instruction_bytes),
         'skill_metadata_tokens': tokens(skill_metadata_bytes),
         'rule_catalog_tokens': tokens(rule_catalog_bytes),
         'agent_metadata_tokens': tokens(agent_metadata_bytes),
@@ -133,7 +134,8 @@ def main():
     current = measure(root)
     failures, warnings = evaluate(current, baseline)
 
-    print('Prompt Budget')
+    print('Prompt Budget (UTF-8 bytes / 4 estimates; not runtime token measurements)')
+    print('Permanent context includes global instructions and all skill frontmatter; agent metadata, plugins, and tool schemas are separate or excluded.')
     if args.summary:
         for metric in METRICS:
             for client in CLIENTS: