get-context

get-context is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from markmhendrickson/neotoma. It costs 67 tokens per session (903 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A context-gathering procedure for collecting and summarising information about a person, company, project, decision, or related record before work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
It retrieves an entity snapshot, history, linked tasks, recent messages, and nearby relationships, then produces a brief.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to search through disconnected records and helps prevent work based on missing or outdated context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It retrieves an entity snapshot, history, linked tasks, recent messages, and nearby relationships, then produces a brief.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markmhendrickson/neotoma/get-context
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add markmhendrickson/neotoma --skill get-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markmhendrickson/neotoma

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 903 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 Prompt Injection · line 31
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
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 $0.00067 $0.00903
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00451
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00181
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00090

Measured 7d ago against content hash f905d849771e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

get-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 7d 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.

docs/skills/core_workflows/get-context/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

get-context

Specification status: This file is a specification, not a runnable skill. The core_workflows bundle is defined in m1 of the Bundles Strategy (plan ent_089da2ecebc3bd804d63dcf2); the runtime path that installs and auto-loads these skills lands in m2 alongside plan ent_b5a51d1395d206e10945b6b1 (Resolve #205). Until m2, treat this file as the locked spec the implementation MUST match.

Adapted in structure from the reference implementation in lemon-skills-share (https://github.com/Lemonbrand/lemon-skills-share).

Purpose

Synthesize a context brief about a target entity before substantive work begins. The output is a synthesized brief, not a raw data dump. Depth scales with caller intent via the depth_tiers field.

When to use

  • Before drafting any output (email, decision memo, deck, code change) that depends on prior state.
  • Before any conversation where the user wants to walk in primed.
  • When the user names a person, company, or project and asks "what do we know".

Required entity types

contact, event, task, observation, conversation, conversation_message. All provided by the default-install core bundle.

Depth tiers

Tier Scope When to use
snapshot Current entity snapshot only. No history, no graph walk. Quick orientation; agent has most context already.
standard Snapshot, recent observations (last 30 days), linked open tasks, last 5 communication touchpoints. Default. Covers most pre-work briefs.
full Standard plus full observation history, all linked tasks, all communication threads, one-hop graph walk. Decision memos, due diligence, escalations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 7d ago First seen · 88 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A f905d849771e

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get-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/neotoma (32 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 903 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 2026-09-03.

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