I am not very good with AI though. Is there a quick and easy way to calculate token count and add this to my dump.txt file, ideally using just simple, included by default Linux tools in bash or simple, included by default Windows tools in powershell?

Thank you in advance.

Also kind of ironic that small codebases are now in vogue, just when google monolithic repos were so popular.

From a purely UX perspective, showing a red badge seems you’re conflating “less good” with size. Who is the target for this? Lots of useful codebases are large.

I do agree, however, that there’s value in splitting up domains into something a human can easily learn and keep in their head after, say, a few days of being deeply entrenched. Tokens could actually be a good proxy for this.

Doubt me?

Think back 2 years. Now compare today. Change is at massive speed, and this issue is top line to be resolved in some fashion.

But my coolest app was a better context creator. I found it hard to extend to actual agentic coding use. Agentic discovery is generally useful and reliable - the overhead of tokens can be managed by the harness (i.e. Claude Code).

https://prompttower.com/

In the case that interfaces remain unchanged, agents only need to look at the implementation of a single module at a time plus the interfaces it consumes and implements. And when changing interfaces, agents only need to look at the interfaces of the modules concerned, and at most a limited number of implementation considerations.

It’s the very reason why we humans invented modularization: so that we don’t have to hold the complete codebase in our heads (“context windows”) in order to reason about it and make changes to it in a robust and well-grounded way.