Tokalator

Count your tokens like beads on an abacus. Context engineering tools for AI coding assistants.

What is this?

Tokalator is a context engineering platform built around two ideas: tokens are money, and context is everything. It includes a VS Code extension that monitors your real-time context budget, and a set of web tools for calculating costs, optimizing prompts, and understanding the economics of AI-assisted coding.

VS Code Extension

Real-time context window monitoring inside your editor. Track token budgets, score tab relevance, and manage context through chat commands.

Token Budget Dashboard

Sidebar panel showing real-time token usage and per-file breakdown

Tab Relevance Scoring

Ranks open tabs by imports, path similarity, edit recency, and diagnostics

Chat Participant

@tokens commands for inline budget management

/count /optimize /pin /breakdown

Context Rot Warnings

Alerts when conversation turns exceed threshold

Web Tools

Cost Calculator

Token cost calculator with Cobb-Douglas quality modeling

Context Optimizer

Visualize your context budget and optimize token usage

Model Comparison

Cross-provider cost and capability comparison

Caching ROI

Break-even analysis for prompt caching

Context Engineering

A collection of agents, prompts, and instructions for maximizing AI coding assistant effectiveness through better context management. Contributed to awesome-copilot.

Context Architect Agent — Maps dependencies before suggesting changes
Context Map Prompt — Generates a map of affected files
What Context Needed — Asks the AI what files it needs
Refactor Plan Prompt — Creates phased refactor plans with verification