context-hygiene

A set of rules for keeping project information current and focused. It explains which documentation to read, how to handle conflicting documents, and why old archives should not be treated as current instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting work, reading project documentation or history, deciding which document is authoritative, or resolving conflicting instructions.
Why use it?
It reduces errors caused by following outdated plans or copying specifications that no longer match the project.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chipfighter/coding-discipline/context-hygiene
Any agent
npx skills add chipfighter/coding-discipline --skill context-hygiene
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chipfighter/coding-discipline

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 654 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00067 $0.00654
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00327
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00065

Measured 2d ago against content hash 05763d653789, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-hygiene 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 2d 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.

plugins/coding-discipline/skills/context-hygiene/SKILL.md · 27 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 27 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Old documents can trace history, but they are not current facts. Models easily follow the most extensively documented old account instead of finding the latest, correct one. If the project guide document (Codex's AGENTS.md / Claude Code's CLAUDE.md) designates a current-state document and archive location, follow it.

What to read—and what not to read

  1. For current state, read only the latest document designated by the project (such as the top of CHANGELOG.md or a STATUS document). Do not treat an old version snapshot as current.
  2. Do not proactively read archives or documents marked superseded / deprecated. When history is genuinely needed, search for and read the relevant passage rather than reading the entire archive.
  3. When documents conflict, first follow the project's designated latest state document; if it is still unclear, ask the user. Do not choose one yourself, and never treat an archive as current.

Do not copy another set of instructions

  1. Point design work to the existing project guide document / architecture decision record (ADR) / current-state document instead of copying another spec—the copy will eventually go stale.
  2. When the reason for a direction changes, rewrite it; do not append: retaining the old rationale invites it to be repeated and pull the work in the wrong direction.
  3. Use memory only for facts unavailable in the repository (environment / people / preferences / lessons from past pitfalls). Read project progress from the current-state document, and record design rationale in an architecture decision record (ADR). Delete stale memory; do not archive another copy.

Project guide documents grow over time; they are not filled in up front

When the project root has no AGENTS.md (Codex) or CLAUDE.md (Claude Code), the plugin places the corresponding empty skeleton there the first time it enters the repository. It grows by confirming one thing and recording one line:

  • Record only things already agreed with the user and not apparent from the code (technology choices / hard boundaries / definition of done). Do not record matters still under discussion or unsettled—filling the guide up front makes later sessions treat guesses as facts.
  • Whenever such a decision is finalized, proactively ask, “Should I record this in the project guide document?” Write it only after approval, one line at a time.
  • If a recorded decision later changes, edit that line; do not add a conflicting line below it (the same “rewrite, do not append” rule above).

Read the full file on GitHub · 27 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. 2d ago First seen · 27 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 05763d653789

Subscribe to this mod's changes

context-hygiene is a skill published in the GitHub repository chipfighter/coding-discipline (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 654 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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