kestral-context

kestral-context is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Kestral-Team/kestral-plugins. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,921 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workspace search tool for finding Kestral documents, projects, and tasks and bringing them into a chat.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps answer questions about current work, such as the status of an authentication migration, using information stored in Kestral.
Why use it?
It removes the need to find and copy relevant workspace information manually. It requires the Kestral connection to be available and authenticated.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Part of the kestral plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps answer questions about current work, such as the status of an authentication migration, using information stored in Kestral.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kestral-team/kestral-plugins/kestral-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 Kestral-Team/kestral-plugins --skill kestral-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kestral-Team/kestral-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install kestral, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,921 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 $0.00047 $0.01921
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00960
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00384
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00192

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3f6ced12cca1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kestral-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 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.

plugins/kestral/skills/kestral-context/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context

Search your Kestral workspace and pull relevant documents, projects, and tasks into the conversation. This gives the agent real workspace knowledge so it can answer questions like "what's the latest on the auth migration?" without you having to paste anything.

Prerequisites

The Kestral MCP server must be in this session (/mcp). Authentication is handled by the MCP connection (OAuth) — proceed directly with operations. If any call returns auth failure (401, unauthorized, or Not authenticated), ask the user to reconnect or authenticate through their app's UI (Cowork: Customize → Connectors; Codex: authenticate then start a new thread using /new — CLI: codex mcp login Kestral; app: Plugins → Kestral → MCP servers gear; Claude Code: /mcp → reconnect).

Human-readable references

Keep Kestral IDs internal unless the user asks for them. In user-facing output:

  • Tasks: show slug - title when a slug is available, linked with url when the host can render links.
  • Projects, documents, feedback, customers, tags, statuses, and other Kestral entities: show the readable name/title/label first, linked with url when the host can render links.
  • People and actors: show display names; if unresolved, write Unknown member (id: <rawId>).
  • Unknown non-member entities: write Unknown <entity type> (id: <rawId>).
  • Approval tables and write-back plans must put the human-readable label first. Raw URLs, machine IDs, source IDs, and bare slugs belong only in secondary metadata when useful.
  • Use existing display fields first; do extra lookups only for entities that matter to the answer.

Workflow

1. Get the query

The user's prompt after /kestral:context is the search topic. Examples:

  • /kestral:context auth migration
  • /kestral:context what do customers say about onboarding?
  • /kestral:context project roadmap for Q3

If the prompt is empty, ask: "What topic should I search for in your Kestral workspace?"

2. Search across entity types

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 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. 9d ago First seen · 192 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 3f6ced12cca1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kestral-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kestral-Team/kestral-plugins (4 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,921 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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