context

context is a skill for Claude Code from epicsagas/epic-harness. It costs 33 tokens per session (239 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A session-management tool that saves the current conversation state, shortens an overgrown conversation, and resumes work with the saved context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to snapshot progress, preserve decisions and changed files, compact long sessions, and resume from the saved state.
Why use it?
It helps an AI coding session continue when the conversation becomes too large or a major new task starts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreCompact hook event.

Part of the epic plugin — 27 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to snapshot progress, preserve decisions and changed files, compact long sessions, and resume from the saved state.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/epicsagas/epic-harness/context
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 epicsagas/epic-harness --skill context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/epicsagas/epic-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install epic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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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 239 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00239
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00096
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00024

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 55f2e47764a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo 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/context/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Context — Working-State Snapshot

Compaction timing belongs to the host (native auto-compaction; the harness already snapshots state on the PreCompact hook). This skill is about WHAT survives, not WHEN to compact.

Process

Before or during compaction, restate the working state in one block:

- Working on: [task description]
- Files modified: [explicit list]
- Status: [what's done, what remains]
- Key decisions: [important choices made, with why]
- Next step: [what to do after compaction]

Keep it terse — this block is what you (and the resume hook) reload after compaction. Re-reading large files afterwards costs more than summarizing the key facts beforehand.

Evidence Required

  • Task, files, decisions, and next step all present in the summary block
  • Snapshot written by the PreCompact hook (show file name if asked)
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. 1mo ago Changed · -35 lines · -1 tokens per session 55f2e47764a0
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 67 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 8d105f5710b1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

context is a skill published in the GitHub repository epicsagas/epic-harness (20 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 239 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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