Another skill called skill-improver, which tries to reduce skill token usage by finding deterministic patterns in another skill that can be scripted, and writes and packages the script.
Putting them together, the container-maintenance thingy improves itself every iteration, validated with automatic testing. It works perfectly about 3/4 of the time, another half of the time it kinda works, and fails spectacularly the rest.
It’s only going to get better, and this fit within my Max plan usage while coding other stuff.
If the tokens that need to attend to each other are on opposite ends of the code base the only way to do that is by reading in the whole code base and hoping for the best.
If you're very lucky you can chunk the code base in such a way that the chunks pairwise fit in your context window and you can extract the relevant tokens hierarchically.
If you're not. Well get reading monkey.
Agents, md files, etc. are bandaids to hide this fact. They work great until they don't.