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Context Tax

What Claude Code sends on every turn before you type a word: what it costs, which of it you never used, and which of your skills never reached the agent.

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Facts

Published: 2 Sep 2026 (2 Sep 2026)
Medium: web
Language: English (the page says so itself)
Subject: Developer tools
First seen: 22 Sep 2026, 13:25 UTC

Built with

Claude Code: confirmed
the agent's own trailer in the repository's commit history

What we can see

94 hygiene score

Certificate issued by WE1, 52 days remaining
Cookie attributes 1 cookies, 0 without the secure flag
Credentials and payment does not ask for either
Strict transport security set
Served over HTTPS
Mail authentication neither published
No insecure resources
Redirects none
Security headers 5 of 5 set, policy permits inline or evaluated script
Third-party origins none
Transport security TLS 1.3

Observed 18 Oct 2026 by fetching the page as a browser would. This describes hygiene and transparency, not safety: a missing header does not make a site dangerous, and a complete set does not make it trustworthy.

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Changes we have seen

18 Oct 2026 updated
22 Sep 2026 first indexed

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