ck:context-engineering

ck:context-engineering is a skill for Claude Code from manhvann/codexkit. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,032 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to managing the information available to AI agents while they work. It covers context limits, memory, multi-agent systems, and ways to keep the most relevant details in view.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design agent workflows, debug context failures, manage memory, coordinate multiple agents, and improve the cost or speed of AI-powered systems.
Why use it?
It helps prevent agents from losing important information, exceeding context limits, or producing worse results because too much unrelated material is loaded.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to design agent workflows, debug context failures, manage memory, coordinate multiple agents, and improve the cost or speed of AI-powered systems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/manhvann/codexkit/context-engineering
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 manhvann/codexkit --skill context-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manhvann/codexkit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,032 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 102
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00045 $0.01032
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00413
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00103

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 868d862888ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ck:context-engineering 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/compression_evaluator.py, scripts/context_analyzer.py, scripts/tests/test_edge_cases.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/context-engineering/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context Engineering

Context engineering curates the smallest high-signal token set for LLM tasks. The goal: maximize reasoning quality while minimizing token usage.

When to Activate

  • Designing/debugging agent systems
  • Context limits constrain performance
  • Optimizing cost/latency
  • Building multi-agent coordination
  • Implementing memory systems
  • Evaluating agent performance
  • Developing LLM-powered pipelines

Core Principles

  1. Context quality > quantity - High-signal tokens beat exhaustive content
  2. Attention is finite - U-shaped curve favors beginning/end positions
  3. Progressive disclosure - Load information just-in-time
  4. Isolation prevents degradation - Partition work across sub-agents
  5. Measure before optimizing - Know your baseline

IMPORTANT:

  • Sacrifice grammar for the sake of concision.
  • Ensure token efficiency while maintaining high quality.
  • Pass these rules to subagents.

Quick Reference

Topic When to Use Reference
Fundamentals Understanding context anatomy, attention mechanics context-fundamentals.md
Degradation Debugging failures, lost-in-middle, poisoning context-degradation.md
Optimization Compaction, masking, caching, partitioning context-optimization.md
Compression Long sessions, summarization strategies context-compression.md
Memory Cross-session persistence, knowledge graphs memory-systems.md
Multi-Agent Coordination patterns, context isolation multi-agent-patterns.md
Evaluation Testing agents, LLM-as-Judge, metrics evaluation.md
Tool Design Tool consolidation, description engineering tool-design.md
Pipelines Project development, batch processing project-development.md
Runtime Awareness Usage limits, context window monitoring runtime-awareness.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 1mo ago First seen · 109 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 868d862888ad

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ck:context-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository manhvann/codexkit (89 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,032 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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