024-context-mapping

024-context-mapping is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jabrena/plinth. It costs 77 tokens per session (670 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An interactive guide for mapping the systems, connections, owners, and outside dependencies around a problem before designing a solution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify related systems, document integrations and data movement, clarify ownership, and list third-party or cross-team dependencies.
Why use it?
It prevents design work from ignoring existing systems, data flows, responsible teams, or services outside your control.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jabrena/plinth/024-context-mapping
Any agent
npx skills add jabrena/plinth --skill 024-context-mapping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jabrena/plinth

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 670 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00077 $0.00670
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00335
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00067

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1098d2599356, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

024-context-mapping 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 4d 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/024-context-mapping/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context Mapping

Guide identification of Existing systems, Integrations, Ownership, and External dependencies relevant to a problem under exploration. This is an interactive SKILL.

What is covered in this Skill?

  • Identifying existing systems that already touch the problem area
  • Mapping integrations and data flows between those systems
  • Naming ownership: who operates, maintains, or is accountable for each system or integration
  • Identifying external dependencies (third-party services, other teams, contracts) outside the team's direct control
  • Feeding context-mapping findings into 025-quality-attribute-discovery and the remaining Functional Specification lenses

Constraints

Map the surrounding context before any design decision assumes a system boundary. When this technique is orchestrated by another workflow, the orchestrator owns clarifying-question sequencing; when applied standalone, ask directly.

  • MUST read references/024-context-mapping.md before applying Context Mapping guidance
  • MUST identify existing systems that already touch the problem area, not only the system expected to change
  • MUST identify integrations and data flows between the identified systems
  • MUST name an owner (team or role) for each identified system or integration when known
  • MUST identify external dependencies outside the team's direct control, such as third-party services, other teams, or contracts
  • MUST NOT invent a system, integration, owner, or external dependency when the available content is vague or ambiguous; flag the gap for a clarifying question instead

When to use this skill

  • Map the systems and integrations around this problem
  • Identify ownership for these systems
  • List the external dependencies for this issue
  • Apply context mapping before design begins
  • Draft the Context Mapping section of a Functional Specification

Workflow

  1. Read the Reference

Read references/024-context-mapping.md, then review the problem frame for systems already implicated by the problem.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 4d ago First seen · 69 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 1098d2599356

Subscribe to this mod's changes

024-context-mapping is a skill published in the GitHub repository jabrena/plinth (435 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 670 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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