wtf is cutweight?

Cutweight is a set of five small skills that plug into AI coding assistants like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor, aimed at trimming the extra content those assistants read on every single message. The idea is that every skill installed, every memory file kept around, and every tool schema loaded adds weight to the context window, and that weight makes the assistant slower to respond well, not just more expensive to run. The first skill, Weigh In, measures how much always-on content your setup is carrying and gives you a weight class rating along with a shareable summary card, so you can track whether things get lighter or heavier over time. Skill Diet goes further and reads through everything installed, including skills, memory files, and tool schemas, and tells you what is always costing tokens versus what only fires occasionally versus what never runs at all, without deleting anything itself. Word Diet changes how the assistant replies, cutting filler out of its answers while keeping exact details like commands, code, and error messages intact. Think Light looks at your tasks and sorts them into light and heavy piles, only reducing how much the assistant reasons through the light ones after checking that quality does not suffer. Session Cut focuses on managing long conversations, encouraging one task per session and giving a short handoff note before starting fresh, so a bloated conversation history does not start working against you. Installing it is done through a command line tool called skills, or as a Claude Code plugin, or by manually copying the skill folders into your assistant's skills directory. The author notes plainly that these five skills themselves add a small always-on cost of roughly 700 tokens to your setup, an honest disclosure rather than a hidden cost.