ctxo-understand

ctxo-understand is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alperhankendi/Ctxo. It costs 50 tokens per session (586 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that orients a coding agent before it reads source files or starts a task. It uses code context, architecture maps, symbol importance, and searches to identify the most relevant parts of a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a fix, extension, refactor, or code-understanding task to find the right files, layers, and important symbols before investigating the source.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of editing the wrong area or misunderstanding how unfamiliar code is structured.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it at the start of a fix, extension, refactor, or code-understanding task to find the right files, layers, and important symbols before investigating the source.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alperhankendi/ctxo/ctxo-understand
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.

Any agent
npx skills add alperhankendi/Ctxo --skill ctxo-understand
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alperhankendi/Ctxo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 586 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00050 $0.00586
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00234
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00059

Measured 16d ago against content hash bb59a2af680b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ctxo-understand 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 16d 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.

packages/cli/skills/ctxo-understand/SKILL.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orient with ctxo before diving in

At the start of a new task:

  1. get_context_for_task with the matching taskType (fix | extend | refactor | understand).
  2. For unfamiliar areas: get_architectural_overlay (layer map) and get_symbol_importance (critical symbols).
  3. Don't know the symbol name? search_symbols (name/regex) or get_ranked_context (natural language) before grepping or browsing directories.

Then read the files ctxo points you to. Reading a file to see its contents needs no index call.

Which tool for which question

Question Tool
Reviewing a PR or recent changes get_pr_impact (one call: changed symbols, blast radius, co-change)
What breaks if I change this symbol? get_blast_radius, then get_why_context
Why does this code look like this? Any reverts? get_why_context
What does this symbol do and depend on? get_context_for_task(taskType: "understand") or get_logic_slice (L2 overview, L3 full closure)
Fixing a bug get_context_for_task(taskType: "fix")
Adding or extending a feature get_context_for_task(taskType: "extend")
Refactoring get_context_for_task(taskType: "refactor")
Who uses this? Is it safe to delete or rename? find_importers, then get_blast_radius
Class inheritance (extends, implements) get_class_hierarchy
Unused symbols and files find_dead_code
Complexity and churn hotspots get_change_intelligence
Symbols in recently changed files get_changed_symbols
Find a symbol by name or regex search_symbols
Find code for a natural-language question get_ranked_context
Layer map of the project get_architectural_overlay
Candidate bounded contexts / context map get_architectural_overlay(mode: "contexts"), then candidate: <id>
Most central symbols get_symbol_importance

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 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. 16d ago Changed · +1 lines bb59a2af680b
  2. 17d ago Changed · +23 lines · +9 tokens per session 425fbb0f72cd
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 15 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 955f61aecdfb

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ctxo-understand is a skill published in the GitHub repository alperhankendi/Ctxo (74 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 586 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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