context-os-cli

context-os-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jacob-dietle/context-os. It costs 66 tokens per session (4,324 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line guide for restoring work context from files, activity, and relationships in a knowledge graph. A knowledge graph is a system that connects related pieces of information so they can be searched together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when investigating recent work, locating related files, checking project activity, or inspecting the health of the context service.
Why use it?
It helps an agent find the relevant project history and files before making claims about what has been done or how things are connected.

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/jacob-dietle/context-os/context-os-cli
Any agent
npx skills add jacob-dietle/context-os --skill context-os-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jacob-dietle/context-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,324 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 $0.00066 $0.04324
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.02162
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00865
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00432

Measured 4d ago against content hash 991d1f122371, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-os-cli 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.

.claude/skills/context-os-cli/SKILL.md · 501 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 501 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context OS CLI Skill

Use context-os CLI + grep + glob together for context restoration.

Core insight: The CLI finds WHICH files matter. Grep/Read find WHAT's in them.


Quick Start (90% of queries)

# 1. Full context for a topic (start here — one command does it all)
context-os context "pixee" --format json

# 2. If you need to drill deeper, use targeted queries
context-os query flex --files "*pixee*" --agg count,recency --format json

# 3. Read hot files to understand what they are
Read: <top_file_from_step_1>

# 4. Search content IN those files
Grep: pattern="hubspot|integration" path=<directory_from_step_1>

# 5. Check git for recent changes
git log --oneline -10 -- <hot_files>

Start with context for broad questions, drop to query subcommands for targeted drilldowns.


CLI Commands

Top-Level Commands

Command Purpose
context <query> Start here. Composed query across flex, heat, chains, sessions, timeline, co-access
query <subcommand> Targeted queries (flex, heat, chains, etc.)
intel health Check intel service health
intel name-chain <id> Name a chain using AI
daemon status Show daemon sync state + registration
daemon once Run a single sync cycle

Query Subcommands

Command Purpose
query flex --files "*pattern*" Find files by path pattern
query flex --time 7d Find files touched in time window
query heat --time 30d File heat metrics (specificity, velocity, score, level)
query co-access <file> Find files accessed together
query session <id> All files in a session
query sessions --time 7d Session-grouped data
query chains List conversation chains
query timeline --time 7d Timeline data for visualization
query verify <receipt> Verify a previous query result
query receipts List recent query receipts

Always use --format json — table output truncates long paths.

Read the full file on GitHub · 501 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. 4d ago First seen · 501 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 991d1f122371

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context-os-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository jacob-dietle/context-os (108 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 4,324 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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