understand-context

A command that checks the current Git work and summarizes the project’s changes. Git is the tool used to track source-code history and versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review local changes or, when there are no local changes, inspect the related pull request or differences from the main branch.
Why use it?
It avoids manually inspecting branches, staged files, modified files, and untracked files to understand what is in progress.

Command for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/liam-hq/liam/understand-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liam-hq/liam

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 98 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00008 $0.00098
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00049
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00020
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00010

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8f004a46947d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

understand-context scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/commands/understand-context.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Task

Run: git status

Then analyze the current work status including:

  • Current branch
  • Modified files
  • Untracked files
  • Staged changes

If git status shows no changes, fallback to:

  • gh pr diff if current branch has an open PR
  • git diff origin/main if changes are pushed but no PR exists

Provide a summary of the current work in progress.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 18 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 8f004a46947d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

understand-context is a command published in the GitHub repository liam-hq/liam (5,100 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 98 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.