Allow Roo/Cline to "know" current task cost and context length so it can make decisions based on it on top of displaying it

[morcth]

Context length of Deepseek is so small... I feel it would be helpful if I could put in my custom for it to create a detailed hand off doc once context hit 80% of limit (I'd put the actual number - 51200 for DS for example) or price hit 3 cents or whatever makes sense there. I'd then have an auto created summary of what we are doing, what we tried, files to look at, what we are in the middle of trying, etc. made for me automatically instead of me realizing it's time once parts of the convo are obviously being forgotten.

The data needed is already being displayed... wondering if it would be tough to add it to the convo context after each api call as well?

Thanks for looking!

[joshwand]

I found this prompt to put in .clinerules that does exactly that for you.

https://docs.cline.bot/improving-your-prompting-skills/custom-instructions-library/cline-memory-bank

[morcth]

Thanks Josh. It was actually for Memory Bank prompt that I thought this would be great for. Having Roo/Cline know the current task cost or context length and be told in the prompt when to "update memory bank" on its own would be great.

Since I've made this request both have actually implemented this feature so you can add to the prompt you linked to check context length after each tool use and if it's over 80% of max, to update memory bank.

I haven't had a chance to try it out yet but hoping to next week.