project-context

project-context is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JakubMikolajek/codex-skills-collection. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,177 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for learning a project's technology, structure, conventions, and constraints at the start of substantial work. It creates a checked summary of the project before implementation, review, or architecture decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting work in an unfamiliar repository, changing repositories or branches, or preparing a code review or architecture task.
Why use it?
It prevents decisions based on guesses about the codebase, framework, business rules, or team practices.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when starting work in an unfamiliar repository, changing repositories or branches, or preparing a code review or architecture task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jakubmikolajek/codex-skills-collection/project-context
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 JakubMikolajek/codex-skills-collection --skill project-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JakubMikolajek/codex-skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,177 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 $0.00037 $0.01177
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00589
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00235
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00118

Measured 12d ago against content hash a0aef356dbd9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-context 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 12d 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/project-context/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Context

This skill provides a systematic approach for building project understanding at the start of any non-trivial session. It produces a Session Context Block that anchors all subsequent work to verified facts about the project's stack, conventions, and constraints.

When to Use

  • At the start of any non-trivial session
  • When switching to a different repo or branch mid-session
  • Before running architecture-design, code-review, or implementation-gap-analysis
  • When a teammate's task description references unfamiliar parts of the codebase

When NOT to Use

  • Task is a simple one-line answer or clarification question — do not run full context discovery
  • Session Context Block was already produced in the current session and no branch/repo switch occurred
  • Task explicitly says "skip context" or provides all context inline

Core Principles

Read Before Assuming

  • Never infer stack or conventions from a single file — require at least 2 confirming sources
  • If evidence conflicts, state the conflict explicitly — do not resolve it silently
  • Do not guess business logic, framework version, or team decisions without evidence
  • Treat the Session Context Block as a living document — update it when new evidence appears

What to Read on Session Start

Read in this order, stopping once the Session Context Block can be filled:

  1. Root manifest: package.json / pubspec.yaml / build.gradle / Cargo.toml (whichever exists)
  2. README.md at repo root
  3. AGENTS.md — check .codex/AGENTS.md first (primary location in bootstrapped projects), then repo root as fallback. Read the Skill Routing table and path convention note.
  4. skills/routing/ branch files (relative to AGENTS.md's directory) — extract active skills and combination rules
  5. Folder structure — max 2 levels deep
  6. One representative source file per detected layer (e.g. one component, one service, one test)

Session Context Block

Produce this block at the top of the first response, max 20 lines:

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 117 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A a0aef356dbd9

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project-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository JakubMikolajek/codex-skills-collection (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,177 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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