---
id: "action-audit-plugins"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["00:08:42", "00:10:17"]
tags: ["system-design", "maintenance"]
related: ["concept-silent-tax", "framework-stupid-button-audit"]
speakers: ["Nate B. Jones"]
action: "Disable unnecessary plugins and prune system prompts."
outcome: "Eliminates hidden token overhead on every interaction."
sources: ["s45-claude-limit-chatgpt-habit"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s45-claude-limit-chatgpt-habit"
originDay: 45
---
# Audit and Prune Plugins / Tools

## Action
Review the system prompts, custom instructions, and enabled plugins for your AI agents and chat interfaces. **Disable any tool or instruction that is not strictly necessary** for the immediate task to eliminate the silent tax on every API call.

## Outcome
Eliminates hidden token overhead — often **tens of thousands of tokens per call** that were being loaded before the user typed a word.

## How
1. List every enabled plugin / tool / connector.
2. For the next 24 hours, log which ones you actually used.
3. Disable everything you didn't.
4. Re-enable per-session only when needed.

## Why
See [[concept-silent-tax]] for mechanism. This action is checkpoint #4 of [[framework-stupid-button-audit]] and a core implication of [[framework-kiss-commands]] (Scope Minimum Context).