Context Budget Lab

Every AI coding tool reads part of your repository before answering and none of them show you which part. This does. Pick a repo, ask what you'd ask an agent, and see what a token budget actually buys — measured against grep, and checked against where the answer really lives.

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Index markdown as well as codeDocs share vocabulary with questions; code does not, so they crowd out the implementation. Turning this off drops zustand's devtools question from 7,277 tokens to 2,454, and "why no re-render" from 63,043 to 4,246. Across the suite it helps or does nothing — it never costs.Token budget — 8,000