context-refresh

context-refresh is a skill for Claude Code from ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry. It costs 28 tokens per session (207 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for refreshing an overloaded or outdated working context. It keeps current goals, decisions, evidence, blockers, and progress while discarding speculation and reloading only changed source material.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a task has accumulated too much context, when sources may have changed, or when earlier notes conflict with current files. It helps identify stale facts, reload the relevant sources, and resume with a compact state.
Why use it?
It prevents old summaries, contradictions, and repeated reading from causing wrong decisions. The process keeps the active task focused on fresh, authoritative information.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ai-psychiatry plugin — 55 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when a task has accumulated too much context, when sources may have changed, or when earlier notes conflict with current files. It helps identify stale facts, reload the relevant sources, and resume with a compact state.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ihabkhaled/ai-psychiatry/context-refresh
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 ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry --skill context-refresh
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-psychiatry, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills.

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-refresh

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for context-refresh

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 207 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 $0.00028 $0.00207
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00103
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00041
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00021

Measured 8d ago against content hash 16ff9df4cb8f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-refresh 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.

.ai/skills/context-refresh/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Context Refresh

Core principle

Refresh preserves facts, decisions, blockers, and state while dropping speculation and reloading only changed authoritative sources.

Procedure

  1. Summarize goal, completed, remaining, decisions, evidence, blocker, and next action.
  2. Discard abandoned hypotheses and repetitive output.
  3. Check source hashes, versions, or modification evidence.
  4. Reload only stale or changed sources.
  5. Resolve conflicts in favor of current source.
  6. Update compact task context and resume.

Required output

Compressed state, refreshed sources, retired stale facts, and next action.

Limits

Two identical reloads without source change trigger attention reset.

Common mistakes

Do not reread the entire repository or trust stale summaries over source.

Stop condition

Stop when current context is small, fresh, and sufficient for the next action.

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 · 37 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 16ff9df4cb8f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

context-refresh is a skill published in the GitHub repository ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry (3 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 207 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 2026-08-31.

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