context-maintenance

context-maintenance is a skill for Claude Code from burin-labs/harn. It costs 16 tokens per session (132 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A recipe for running background tasks that keep an agent's working context up to date. It uses lifecycle hooks, which are actions triggered at specific points in a run.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure context refresh and crystallization hooks, run them in the background, and save their job receipts for replay.
Why use it?
It keeps context maintenance from slowing down the main work and records whether each background task ran or was skipped. Those records allow later replay to reproduce what happened.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to configure context refresh and crystallization hooks, run them in the background, and save their job receipts for replay.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/burin-labs/harn/context-maintenance
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 burin-labs/harn --skill context-maintenance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/burin-labs/harn

Made for: Claude Code.

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 context-maintenance

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 132 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 $0.00016 $0.00132
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00066
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00026
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00013

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1d3b28b0a72e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-maintenance 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 8d 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.

examples/triggers/context-maintenance/SKILL.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

Context maintenance hooks

Install the [[hooks]] entries in harn.toml, keep hook handlers fast, and run context.refresh / context.crystallize in a host-owned background lane. Persist the returned harn.context_maintenance.job_receipt.v1 receipts so replay can include the job or emit a deterministic skipped receipt.

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 13 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 1d3b28b0a72e

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context-maintenance is a skill published in the GitHub repository burin-labs/harn (20 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 132 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.

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