ctx-show

ctx-show is a skill for Claude Code from artem-from-ua/claude-plugins. It costs 87 tokens per session (1,214 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A command that collects the context Claude Code loads when a session starts. It includes instruction files, saved memory, startup-hook output, and available skills, with source labels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect global and project CLAUDE.md files, automatic memory, SessionStart hooks, plugin hooks, and skill listings. It can print the result or save it to a temporary Markdown file.
Why use it?
It makes hidden or scattered session instructions visible in one place. A summary also shows where each source came from and how much context it uses.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the context plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect global and project CLAUDE.md files, automatic memory, SessionStart hooks, plugin hooks, and skill listings. It can print the result or save it to a temporary Markdown file.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add artem-from-ua/claude-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install context

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install context, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ctx-show

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/artem-from-ua/claude-plugins/ctx-show"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/artem-from-ua/claude-plugins/ctx-show/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for ctx-show

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/artem-from-ua/claude-plugins/ctx-show"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/artem-from-ua/claude-plugins/ctx-show.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,214 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00087 $0.01214
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00607
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00121

Measured 10d ago against content hash dbc16e28641c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

ctx-show scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 10d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

4. Global SessionStart hooks (from `~/.claude/settings.json`)
plugins/context/commands/ctx-show/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/ctx-show — Show Full Session Context

Assemble and display everything Claude Code loads at session start, in load order.

Flags

Flag Description
--file (default) Write to /tmp/claude-context-{timestamp}.md and print the path
--stdout Print full content to terminal

Sources (in load order)

  1. ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md — global user instructions
  2. {project}/CLAUDE.md — project instructions
  3. ~/.claude/projects/{hash}/memory/MEMORY.md — auto-memory
  4. Global SessionStart hooks (from ~/.claude/settings.json)
  5. Project SessionStart hooks (from {project}/.claude/settings.json)
  6. Plugin SessionStart hooks (enabled plugins in ~/.claude/plugins/cache/)
  7. Skills — SKILL.md listings from user (~/.claude/commands/, ~/.claude/skills/), plugins, and project ({project}/.claude/commands/)

Each source is wrapped with <!-- Source: ... --> comments. Missing files are noted but do not cause errors.

Summary Table

After the file is written (or content printed), a summary table is printed to stderr with:

Column Description
Scope User (global ~/.claude/) or Project (project-level + plugins)
Type CLAUDE.md · Memory · Plugin hook · User hook · Project hook · Playbook Preset · Skill
Source/ID Shortened path (~/, ./) or plugin identifier name@marketplace (vX.Y.Z)
Status has content · missing/empty · command failed (shown as "script error" in Lines column)
Lines / Tokens Content metrics; exact via Anthropic count_tokens API when ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is set, otherwise estimated as ~Tokens (bytes/3.8)
Context% Each source's share of total context

Playbook presets (from playbook@artem-from-ua) appear as individual rows when using playbook v0.3.1+.

Steps

  1. Run the script via Bash. ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} is a runtime env var pointing to the plugin root — use it to locate scripts. The script prints two paths on stdout: the context file path and the table file path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 10d ago First seen · 85 lines · 87 tokens per session scan B dbc16e28641c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ctx-show is a skill published in the GitHub repository artem-from-ua/claude-plugins (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 1,214 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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