Three Agent Tools, One Context Budget: TokenEconomizer, Trail-Code, humanlayer/skills

Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Three tools showed up in my feed inside about a week, each with a tidy one-line pitch, and all three arrived framed as though the job was to pick one of them. TokenEconomizer stops your agent burning money on tool definitions it never uses. Trail-Code gives every agent on your team a shared memory. humanlayer/skills turns open-ended chatting into repeatable workflows.

I went and read all three properly, partly because I’ve written about this problem before and partly because the three descriptions didn’t sound like they were describing the same kind of thing at all.

Context on the art of simplicity

Three Agent Tools, One Context Budget: TokenEconomizer, Trail-Code, humanlayer/skills