clio-kit-context-prime

clio-kit-context-prime is a skill for Claude Code from iowarp/clio-kit. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,609 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A repository orientation workflow that reconstructs what a previous coding session was doing before new work begins. A repository is the project folder and its version-controlled history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read the previous handoff, current Git state, project constitution, and active-work indicators before taking a substantial action.
Why use it?
A fresh session can see the code but miss the earlier intent, unfinished work, or project rules. It gathers those signals in one bounded pass.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the clio-coder-skills plugin — 39 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to read the previous handoff, current Git state, project constitution, and active-work indicators before taking a substantial action.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iowarp/clio-kit/clio-kit-context-prime
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 iowarp/clio-kit --skill clio-kit-context-prime
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iowarp/clio-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install clio-coder-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,609 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 $0.00068 $0.01609
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00644
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00161

Measured 9d ago against content hash e8520cb62e66, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clio-kit-context-prime 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 9d 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/clio-coder-skills/skills/clio-kit-context-prime/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Host compatibility

This copy is adapted from Clio Coder. Apply the procedure using the current host's available tools and the user's authorized scope. The tool names, /skill invocations, .clio-coder paths, fleets, approval gates and completion gates below describe Clio Coder; they are not installed or enforced by this skill in another host. Use the host's actual skill invocation and equivalent tools. If no equivalent exists, report the missing capability. Do not assume a tool is unavailable merely because the original headless workflow says so. A referenced agent or skill must be installed before relying on it. Scientific MCPs must be configured separately.

Adapted skills use the clio-kit- prefix to distinguish them from upstream audited skills. For a companion skill named below, select its clio-kit- copy from this collection; native agents, fleets and external programs retain their original names.

Context Prime

Reconstruct the state a previous session left behind, in one bounded pass, before taking any non-trivial action. A fresh agent has the code but not the intent; this rebuilds the intent.

This is the read-side bookend of context-handoff. It consumes what context-handoff wrote. It is not /resume — that restores an engine session's transcript; this reconstructs orientation a transcript alone doesn't carry.

When to use

  • The first substantive request of a new session.
  • Resuming a project after time away, or picking up another agent's work.
  • The user says "catch me up", "where were we", "prime", "get up to speed".

Skip it for a one-line question in a repo you already have full context on.

Arguments

/skill clio-kit-context-prime [<focus hint>]
  • With a focus hint: treat it as a candidate for the orientation's Next line, not as ground truth — confirm or contradict it against the handoff and git state, the same as any other suggested focus.
  • Without one: orient from the handoff, constitution, and git state alone.

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 129 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A e8520cb62e66

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clio-kit-context-prime is a skill published in the GitHub repository iowarp/clio-kit (30 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,609 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-08.

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