context-engineering

context-engineering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from int2t05/engineering-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (265 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for giving a coding agent the most relevant project information at the right time. It organizes persistent rules, feature specifications, architecture notes, code conventions, and current task details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting work in an unfamiliar codebase, switching features, or explaining existing code. It helps identify which rules, files, definitions, and prior decisions the agent should read.
Why use it?
Too little context can lead to wrong patterns, while too much can hide the important parts. Curating the input helps the agent follow project conventions and make fewer unsupported assumptions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the engineering-skills plugin — 47 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting work in an unfamiliar codebase, switching features, or explaining existing code. It helps identify which rules, files, definitions, and prior decisions the agent should read.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/int2t05/engineering-skills/context-engineering
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 int2t05/engineering-skills --skill context-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/int2t05/engineering-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install engineering-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 1 hook.

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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.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 265 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 $0.00029 $0.00265
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00106
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00026

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1e1e6ae06c19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-engineering 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 10d 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/04-develop/context-engineering/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Context Engineering

When to use

  • Assemble relevant context or explain an existing code path.

Not for: handoff for transferring work; research for external investigation.

Steps

  1. Choose explanation or execution-context mode and identify audience and exact question.

  2. Trace actual definitions, callers, entry points and tests; distinguish instructions from external or quoted data.

  3. Explain purpose, inputs, meaningful calls and outputs, or provide task goals, constraints, selected paths and verification commands.

  4. Reconcile conflicts or ask about unresolved decisions; preserve confirmed context during compaction.

Verify

  • Symbols and paths exist; the explanation follows actual calls and avoids irrelevant repository dumps.

References

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 10d ago Changed · -61 lines · -38 tokens per session 1e1e6ae06c19
  2. 16d ago Changed · +1 lines 9e076c2abaee
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 93 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 34176d6d1500

Subscribe to this mod's changes

context-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository int2t05/engineering-skills (3 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 265 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 2026-08-31.

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