context-now

context-now is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from djangonavarro220/agentic-life-os. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,887 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for building a compact view of the user’s current work, including what is active, what is waiting, and what action comes next.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for requests such as “what should I focus on?”, “catch me up”, “where are we?”, or “what am I waiting on?”.
Why use it?
It turns scattered current-state information into a short, actionable catch-up view when focus or next steps are unclear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it for requests such as “what should I focus on?”, “catch me up”, “where are we?”, or “what am I waiting on?”.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/djangonavarro220/agentic-life-os/context-now
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 djangonavarro220/agentic-life-os --skill context-now
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/djangonavarro220/agentic-life-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,887 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 $0.00042 $0.01887
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00944
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00377
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00189

Measured 11d ago against content hash 222a78593ce7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-now 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 11d 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.

skills/life-os/skills/context-now/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

context-now

Mandatory integrity contract

Before acting, load and follow ../../references/data-integrity.md. Its provenance, missing-value, correction-history, defensive-write, backup, and recovery rules are mandatory for this subskill.

Build a compact view of what matters now. This is the user-facing “where am I and what should I do next?” skill.

Trigger

Use when the user asks for a compact current-context or next-action view, including:

  • what should I focus on?
  • what should I look at now?
  • catch me up
  • where are we?
  • what is active now?
  • what am I waiting on?
  • what should the next action be?

Keep triggers language-neutral in spirit: examples may be English, but the intent is current context, immediate focus, catch-up, and next action in any user language.

Context sources

Use python3 scripts/lifeos.py context-sources only when the agent needs a cheap wiring diagnostic. The helper reports configured pointer presence and runtime inventory freshness. It must not inspect a live runtime, infer Hermes/OpenClaw from filesystem heuristics, expose cached capabilities as current truth, rank priorities, choose sources for the request, or decide what matters.

If inventory is absent or stale, the agent should use the active harness/runtime-native tools or runtime adapter to inspect the live sources needed for the current question. The helper should not pretend to know every possible runtime.

Inspect only relevant, runtime-owned sources and Life OS private tracking pointers:

  • current conversation/request
  • Life OS config.json and recent routine records
  • runtime TODO/task system, if configured
  • calendar/mail/session/memory pointers only when relevant and available
  • active blockers or recent decisions from loaded subskills
  • in-progress guided meetings recorded in Life OS private state or the runtime task system

Do not dump raw history. Distill.

Source ladder

Use this order unless the user's request clearly narrows the scope:

  1. Current conversation and explicit user ask.
  2. Life OS config/source pointers and paused meeting state.
  3. Runtime-owned task/follow-up source.
  4. Runtime-owned routine records or cron output pointers.
  5. Calendar/mail/session/memory sources only when the configured pointers say they are relevant.
  6. Domain subskill state only for domains that are active, due, blocked, or explicitly named.

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 163 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 222a78593ce7

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context-now is a skill published in the GitHub repository djangonavarro220/agentic-life-os (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,887 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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