ravenclaw: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/ravenclaw-context/SKILL.md

ravenclaw-context is a skill for Claude Code from chainofdive/ravenclaw. It costs 33 tokens per session (458 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A work-context helper that loads projects, active tasks, comments, and task locks from Ravenclaw, a work-tracking system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a session or when changing tasks to review work, start or finish issues, read comments, update documentation, and manage shared locks.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to search manually for what is in progress before starting work. It also helps agents avoid taking the same locked work as another agent.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is chainofdive/ravenclaw's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ravenclaw 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 ravenclaw configures →

Part of the ravenclaw plugin — 1 skill, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to chainofdive/ravenclaw. 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/chainofdive/ravenclaw/main/.claude/skills/ravenclaw-context/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chainofdive/ravenclaw

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ravenclaw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 458 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 $0.00033 $0.00458
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00229
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00046

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0052880e0dc4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ravenclaw-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 9d 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/ravenclaw-context/SKILL.md · 82 lines

What it actually says

This skill helps you quickly load and apply work context from the Ravenclaw system.

Steps

1. Load Work Context

First, get the full work context. If the Ravenclaw MCP server is available, use the get_work_context tool. Otherwise, run the CLI:

rc context

2. Review Active Work

Check what's currently in progress:

rc issue list --status=in_progress --format=table

Check what's blocked or ready to start:

rc issue list --status=todo --format=table

3. Check User Comments

If working on a specific issue, check for user comments/feedback:

rc comment list issue <issue-id>

4. Start Working

Pick an issue to work on and mark it:

rc issue start <key>

5. When Done

Update the issue and add any relevant wiki documentation:

rc issue done <key>
rc wiki write <topic-slug>

6. Epic Locks (Multi-Agent Safety)

Before starting work on an epic's issues, acquire a lock:

rc lock acquire <epic-id> --session $SESSION_ID --agent claude-code

Keep the lock alive during long work:

rc lock heartbeat <epic-id> --session $SESSION_ID

Release when done:

rc lock release <epic-id> --session $SESSION_ID

Or simply use rc issue start <key> — it auto-acquires the epic lock.

Check for existing locks:

rc lock list

Tips

  • Use rc context --compact for a token-efficient summary
  • Use rc search "keyword" to find relevant epics, issues, or wiki pages
  • Always read comments before starting — the user may have specific instructions
  • Update the wiki with architectural decisions or important context for future agents
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. 9d ago First seen · 82 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 0052880e0dc4

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ravenclaw-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository chainofdive/ravenclaw (13 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 458 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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