improve-context

improve-context is a skill for Claude Code from ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst. It costs 65 tokens per session (572 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A context-improvement workflow for diagnosing why an AI system gave a poor answer, testing the smallest proposed change, and recording whether to accept, revise, or undo it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate missing, incorrect, outdated, conflicting, or ignored context and compare the same test cases before and after a change.
Why use it?
It prevents plausible-looking changes from being adopted without evidence. It also preserves before-and-after evaluation results so regressions are visible.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to investigate missing, incorrect, outdated, conflicting, or ignored context and compare the same test cases before and after a change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst/improve-context
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst --skill improve-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 572 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00065 $0.00572
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00286
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00057

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6f7da4966d99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-13, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

improve-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/skills/improve-context/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Improve context

Use the evaluation system as the referee. Do not promote a context change because the new answer looks more plausible.

1. Diagnose

Read the failing evaluation record and its analysis trace. Classify the context failure:

  • missing information;
  • wrong information;
  • stale information;
  • conflicting information;
  • correct information was not supplied;
  • supplied information was ignored or misapplied;
  • the problem belongs in a skill, helper, workflow, or evaluator rather than context.

Run /context-trace on the exact question. Preserve its JSON fingerprint.

2. Propose

Create working/context-change-proposal.yaml with:

  • observed failure and evidence;
  • smallest proposed change;
  • representation and delivery;
  • source and owner;
  • status proposed;
  • cases expected to improve;
  • possible regressions;
  • required reviewers;
  • acceptance criteria.

Do not change trusted context until the user approves the proposal.

3. Preserve the baseline

Run the working and regression cases before the edit. Keep the manifest paths and run IDs. Freeze the suite, data snapshot, model, evaluator, and trial count. Record the proposal's named target case IDs. For the Session 8 course fallback, use data/evals/public/week4-context.yaml with the context-policy runner. Lock outputs before grading against data/evals/working-references/week4-context.yaml.

4. Apply one change

Make only the approved context change. Show the diff. Do not change the evaluator or expected results in the same comparison.

5. Rerun and inspect

Run the same working and regression cases. Inspect:

  • aggregate score;
  • target cases;
  • regressions;
  • cases still failing;
  • context manifest;
  • context citations and SQL-use evidence.

6. Write the receipt

Use helpers.knowledge.context_change with the baseline and candidate manifests. Pass every named target with --target-case, and verify that the actual changed system paths are a subset of the approved changed paths. The receipt must recommend:

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 2d ago First seen · 73 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 6f7da4966d99

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improve-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst (298 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 572 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-12.

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