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.
npx agentmods add skills/martinemde/dotfiles/gather-contextnpx skills add martinemde/dotfiles --skill gather-contextgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martinemde/dotfilesWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/martinemde/dotfiles/gather-context)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/martinemde/dotfiles/gather-context"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/martinemde/dotfiles/gather-context.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00000 | $0.01116 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00558 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00223 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00112 |
Grade A, and why
gather-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 3d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Gather Context: Build Understanding Before Acting
Gather comprehensive context about a problem before proposing solutions. Practice Chesterton's Fence: understand why things exist before changing them.
Arguments
$ARGUMENTS
Pre-computed Context
Git root: !`git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || echo "NOT A GIT REPO"`
Remote: !`git remote get-url origin 2>/dev/null || echo "no remote"`
Has gh: !`command -v gh 2>/dev/null && echo "yes" || echo "no"`
Constraints
- Never use
git -C <path>— it rewrites the command prefix, breakingallowed-toolspattern matching. - This skill is read-only. Do not modify files, create branches, or make commits.
- Gather context proportional to the problem size. A typo fix doesn't need 3 Explore agents.
Instructions
1. Determine Context Scope
Assess what kind of investigation is needed based on $ARGUMENTS:
| Input | Scope |
|---|---|
Issue ref (#123) with clear, narrow body |
Light — fetch issue, quick codebase scan |
| Issue ref with broad/vague body or multiple comments | Full — fetch issue + parallel exploration + history |
| Problem description (no issue) | Full — explore codebase, search history |
2. Fetch the Issue (if applicable)
If $ARGUMENTS is an issue reference:
gh issue view <number> --json number,title,body,labels,comments,assignees,milestone,projectItems
Extract:
- Goal: What needs to change and why
- Labels: What labels are applied and what they indicate about priority, readiness, type, and scope
- Comments: Additional requirements, discussion, decisions
- Linked references: Other issues, PRs, URLs mentioned in body/comments
If comments reference other issues, fetch those too:
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.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 134 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 14ba1bc29ca5
gather-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinemde/dotfiles (9 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed ISC. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,116 tokens. 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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