Paleo Auto

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 6 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 6 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).

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: mocasus
• Source: mocasus/paleo
• License: MIT
• Homepage: https://github.com/mocasus/paleo

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.