open-scholar-peer: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/kia-context-help/SKILL.md

kia-context-help is a skill for Claude Code from amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer. It costs 84 tokens per session (1,016 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A plain-language guide to kiacontext, a set of Markdown files that stores a project's decisions, history, rules, and current state for coding agents. It explains what each folder and file is for and where to record different kinds of information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand the context system, find a specific project detail, choose the right file for a decision or update, and follow the repository's documented conventions.
Why use it?
It removes the need to guess where project knowledge belongs or what a context file means. That makes handoffs and later coding sessions less dependent on the original author.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

This is amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on open-scholar-peer itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything open-scholar-peer configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer/main/.agents/skills/kia-context-help/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,016 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 $0.00084 $0.01016
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00406
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00102

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ddeef8717d35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kia-context-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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/kia-context-help/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

kiacontext — what it is, in plain language

A kit of Markdown files that keeps a project's context for and by agents. Nothing more.

It is not a framework, a workflow, or a methodology. There is nothing to learn and nothing to obey. It is the set of documents most people end up asking an agent to write anyway — standardised, so the agent knows where to put things without being told each time.

Answer the question that was asked

If the human asked something specific — "what goes in BRAINSTORM?", "where do I write this decision?" — answer that in two or three sentences and stop. Only give the full tour below if they asked for one.

Read kia-context/INDEX.md before answering; this project's version may differ from the default.

The whole system

kia-context/       the agent reads and writes this
  INDEX.md         the map — what exists and where
  genesis/         where the project came from. Written once, at the start
    SEED.md          the first prompts that started it
    GENESIS.md       why it exists — the catalyst and the problem
  specs/           the law. Changes rarely, in place
    MANIFESTO.md     what this is, and the rules that may not be traded away
    ARCHITECTURE.md  how it is built — stack, layout, whatever else matters
    DESIGN.md        the design system, if there is an interface
  logs/            state. Written every session
    PROGRESS.md      milestones, deliverables, what is done
    BRAINSTORM.md    numbered decisions — why we chose what we chose

docs/              humans read this, and only when someone asks for it

Where a thing goes

The thing Goes in
What we are building next logs/PROGRESS.md
Why we picked this over that logs/BRAINSTORM.md
A rule that must not be broken specs/MANIFESTO.md
How the system is put together specs/ARCHITECTURE.md
Colours, type, components specs/DESIGN.md
Why the project exists at all genesis/GENESIS.md
A document for people to read docs/ — but only when asked

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. 1mo ago First seen · 87 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A ddeef8717d35

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kia-context-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer (51 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,016 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-12.

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