ctx:help

A quick-start reference for Contextune, a coding-agent add-on that recognises requests and suggests or runs workflows. It provides examples and descriptions of commands such as research and parallel development.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find example prompts, understand available commands, and choose workflows for research, feature discovery, or parallel coding.
Why use it?
It helps new users learn what the add-on can do without memorising command names or syntax.

Command

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/shakestzd/contextune/ctx-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shakestzd/contextune
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,994 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 $0.00012 $0.01994
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00997
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00399
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00199

Measured yesterday against content hash 8defa02defe6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ctx:help 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 yesterday.

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.

commands/ctx-help.md · 326 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 326 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Contextune Help - Quick Start Guide

Just type naturally—Contextune detects your intent automatically!


✨ Try These Examples (Copy & Paste)

🔍 Fast Research (1-2 min, ~$0.07)

research best React state management library for 2025

→ Spawns 3 parallel agents (web + codebase + deps) → Returns comparison table + recommendation → 67% cost reduction with parallel agents

⚡ Parallel Development (1.5-3x measured speedup)

work on authentication, dashboard, and API in parallel

→ Creates development plan with task breakdown → Sets up git worktrees for parallel execution → Spawns agents to work simultaneously

💡 Feature Discovery

what can Contextune do?

→ Activates intent-recognition skill → Shows all capabilities with examples → Guides you to the right commands


📚 Most Used Commands

/ctx:research <query>

Fast technical research using 3 parallel Haiku agents.

Examples:

/ctx:research best database for user authentication
/ctx:research should I use REST or GraphQL
/ctx:research latest TypeScript testing frameworks

What you get:

  • Web research (latest trends, comparisons)
  • Codebase analysis (what already exists)
  • Dependency check (what's installed vs needed)
  • Recommendation with reasoning

Execution: Fast parallel | Cost: ~$0.07


/ctx:status

Monitor progress across all parallel worktrees.

Shows:

  • Active worktrees and their branches
  • Task completion status
  • Git commit history per worktree
  • Next steps and blockers

Use when: Working on parallel tasks and want overview


/ctx:configure

Setup guide for persistent status bar integration.

Enables:

  • Real-time detection display in status bar
  • Zero context overhead (file-based)
  • See what Contextune detected without cluttering chat

One-time setup: Adds statusline script to your config


🔧 Advanced Workflow Commands

/ctx:plan

Document development plan for parallel execution.

Creates:

  • Modular YAML plan with task breakdown
  • Dependency graph (parallel vs sequential tasks)
  • Resource allocation strategy
  • Time and cost estimates

Read the full file on GitHub · 326 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 326 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 8defa02defe6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ctx:help is a command published in the GitHub repository shakestzd/contextune (5 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,994 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.