mode

A command for choosing whether a session switches between saved contexts automatically, after asking, or only when told manually. A context is reusable project or domain knowledge connected to the session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view or set the session's context-switching mode, either for the current session or as the default for new sessions.
Why use it?
It lets you control when context changes happen, avoiding unexpected switches or unnecessary prompts.

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/xtsoftwarelabs/neatcontext-plugins/mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/XTSoftwareLabs/neatcontext-plugins
Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 250 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 $0.00010 $0.00250
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00125
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00025

Measured 2d ago against content hash 409ede0f9068, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mode 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.

plugins/claude-code/neatcontext/commands/mode.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Set or show how this session routes itself between contexts.

The user supplied:

$ARGUMENTS

Accept only no argument, one of auto, ask, or manual, and an optional trailing --global. If anything else was supplied, do not run it as shell input; show the accepted form instead.

Run the bundled CLI with the validated literal mode:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/src/claude/neatcontext-cli.mjs" mode <mode> [--global]

Omit <mode> [--global] when the user supplied no argument. Relay the output as it is. Do not explain the modes again if the command already listed them, and do not switch context as part of running this command.

The mode set here applies to this session only. /neatcontext:mode <mode> --global changes the default for new sessions instead.

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 · 31 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 409ede0f9068

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mode is a command published in the GitHub repository XTSoftwareLabs/neatcontext-plugins (13 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 250 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 2026-08-30.