SIGNAL; shrinking agent skills so context stays for code

SIGNAL is a small open-source agent skill bundle for people who hit context limits: tiered modes, symbolic shorthand, checkpoints, a disk-backed .signal_state.md, and separate skills for diff/search summaries and git (commit / push / PR) plus structured review. Each skill ships as readable *.md and a tight *.min.md so you can load less instruction surface when you want.

Install

npx skills add mattbaconz/signal

Repo: github.com/mattbaconz/signal

Benchmarks (honest caveat)
The repo includes scripted fixtures and heuristic token estimates (ceil(chars/4)). That’s useful for comparing shapes, not for quoting exact billed tokens from a provider.

What I’d like from readers
If you’ve tried skills packs or fat AGENTS.md files: does the canonical + minified split match how you’d maintain this, or is it too much friction? I’m open to blunt feedback.