Toggle eco mode — aggressive token-saving behaviors that trade some response richness for lower session cost.

Toggle eco mode for the current session.

Usage

/ashlr-eco-mode on      # enable eco mode
/ashlr-eco-mode off     # disable eco mode
/ashlr-eco-mode status  # show current eco mode state + active behaviors

What eco mode does

When ASHLR_ECO=1 is set, the following behaviors activate automatically:

Behavior	Details
Auto-compact every 15 tool calls	Triggers `/ashlr-compact` automatically to prevent stale result accumulation
Force genome grep	Errors if `.ashlrcode/genome/` is missing, with a link to `/ashlr-genome-init`
Lower summarization threshold	Reduces LLM summarization threshold from 16384 → 12288 bytes (fires more often)
Smart Task routing	Task tool calls without explicit `subagent_type` are routed to `ashlr:ashlr:explore` when the prompt is question-shaped (starts with what/where/how/find/explain/why/which/when/who)
Suppress image attachments	Image data in tool results is stripped before processing

Environment variable

Variable	Value	Effect
`ASHLR_ECO`	`1`	Eco mode on
`ASHLR_ECO`	unset / `0`	Eco mode off

The eco router hook (hooks/pretooluse-eco-router.ts) reads ASHLR_ECO and injects subagent_type: "ashlr:ashlr:explore" into question-shaped Task tool calls.

The status line shows a eco badge when ASHLR_ECO=1.

Steps

`on`

Set env var via Bash:
export ASHLR_ECO=1

Print:

Eco mode ON. Active behaviors:
- Auto-compact every 15 tool calls
- Force genome grep (error if .ashlrcode/genome/ missing)
- Summarization threshold: 12288 bytes (was 16384)
- Question-shaped Task calls routed to ashlr:ashlr:explore
- Image attachments suppressed in tool results

Run /ashlr-eco-mode off to disable.

`off`

Unset env var via Bash:
unset ASHLR_ECO
Print: "Eco mode OFF. All behaviors restored to defaults."

`status`

Check ASHLR_ECO in environment.

If ASHLR_ECO=1:

Eco mode: ON (ASHLR_ECO=1)

Active behaviors:
- Auto-compact every 15 tool calls              ✓
- Force genome grep                              ✓
- Summarization threshold: 12288 bytes           ✓ (default: 16384)
- Question Task routing → ashlr:ashlr:explore   ✓
- Image attachment suppression                   ✓

If off:
Eco mode: OFF Run /ashlr-eco-mode on to enable all token-saving behaviors.

No argument

Print the status (same as status).

/ashlr-eco-mode

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