paleo-auto

Zero-touch token savings. Enable once, stay on — paleo-auto watches your session and activates the right skills at the right time.

What it does

• Automatic activation. No manual triggers needed. Detects session conditions and enables skills.
• Picks the right combo. Not all skills needed all the time — paleo-auto picks per-condition.
• Safe defaults. Never applies ultra or hard-strict modes unless asked. Always starts at full or soft.

Auto-detection triggers

Condition	Detection	Action
Session length >15 turns	Count user/assistant exchanges	Enable paleo (full) + paleo-trim-context
Repeated tool output (same tool called 3+ times with similar results)	Compare last 3 tool outputs	Enable paleo-summary (full)
Context approaching warning (>60% capacity)	Estimate context usage	Enable paleo-converse (full, N=8) + paleo-trim-context
High token cost model detected (GPT-4, Claude Opus, etc.)	Model name check	Enable paleo-budget (soft, 3000 tokens) + paleo (full)
Bulky output returned (single tool result >2000 tokens est.)	Output size check	Enable paleo-summary (lite) for subsequent similar calls
User sends "long session" / "chatty" / "lagging"	Keyword match	Enable all 7 skills at full defaults
Session startup (fresh new session)	First 2 turns	Enable paleo (full) only — low overhead baseline

Default combo per scenario

Scenario	Active skills	Why
Fresh session	paleo (full)	Low overhead baseline, catches wordy responses
Long session	paleo (full) + paleo-trim-context + paleo-converse (N=6)	Context hygiene + history compression
Expensive model	paleo (full) + paleo-budget (soft, 3k)	Cap costs on pricey models
Debugging/tools-heavy	paleo-summary (full) + paleo (full)	Shrink bulky tool output
User says "lagging" / "chatty"	All 7 at full defaults	Max savings, immediate

Rules

• Never override a user's explicit skill activation. If user says paleo ultra, keep it.
• Never apply ultra or hard/strict modes automatically — only lite/full/soft.
• If user disables a skill (e.g. "stop paleo"), respect it for the rest of the session.
• Report changes: "🦴 paleo-auto: enabled paleo + trim-context (session length 22 turns)" — one line, non-intrusive.
• Re-evaluate every 5 turns or on context-warning signal.

Switch

• On: paleo-auto · auto paleo · enable auto-save
• Off: disable paleo-auto · manual paleo · stop auto
• Status check: paleo-auto status → list currently active skills + why

Gotchas

• paleo-auto is an ORCHESTRATOR, not a replacement. It delegates to the 6 sibling skills — don't re-implement their rules here.
• Don't fight user overrides. Use explicitly set = respect it.
• Detection is approximate (turn count, output size estimation) — false positive is fine, false negative is tolerable. Err on the side of activating.
• Startup cost: loading paleo-auto adds ~300 tokens of context. Only keep active if the session will benefit from it (usually >10 turns).