lookup

A lookup tool for current library documentation, programming interfaces, and code examples through Context7, a service that provides up-to-date technical references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check how to use a library, configure it, migrate to a newer version, or find current example code.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on outdated knowledge about a library or framework whose interface may have changed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/lookup
Any agent
npx skills add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins --skill lookup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,767 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00153 $0.01767
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00883
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00177

Measured 2d ago against content hash 351e7c248c3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lookup 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/update.sh), 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.

plugins/context7/skills/lookup/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pre-computed context

Installed CLI version: !ctx7 --version 2>/dev/null || echo "not installed (run: npm install -g ctx7@latest)"

MCP availability: check your own tool list. If mcp__context7__resolve-library-id / mcp__context7__query-docs are present, the MCP path is configured.

Purpose

A primary source of up-to-date library documentation. Two equivalent interfaces: CLI (ctx7) via npm, and the Context7 HTTP MCP server (mcp__context7__*) when the consuming project has it configured. Both read the same backend. Pick by workflow (see When to use CLI vs MCP).

Philosophy: training data is stale by the time you use it. Library APIs, framework defaults, best practices change. Before claiming how a library works, verify against Context7, even for libraries you "know."

Actions

Action When Loads
lookup <library> <query> (default) User asks about a library context/lookup.md
update Drift check + CLI upgrade + upstream skill changes context/update.md

If the argument is bare (no action keyword), treat as lookup.

First-time setup covers CLI install, CONTEXT7_API_KEY auth, optional MCP server wiring, and the Windows Git Bash gotcha. It lives in its own skill: run /context7:setup.

Lookup (happy path)

Two-step: resolve library name → fetch docs with resolved ID.

# Step 1: name → Context7 library ID
ctx7 library "<name>" "<question>"
# Step 2: ID → docs (Windows Git Bash: prefix with MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 — see context/cli.md)
MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 ctx7 docs "<libraryId>" "<question>"

Equivalent via MCP when the consuming project has the Context7 MCP server configured (no Windows gotcha, cleaner output, returns ~1.5-2× more content):

mcp__context7__resolve-library-id(libraryName: "...", query: "...")
mcp__context7__query-docs(libraryId: "/org/project", query: "...")

You MUST call library / resolve-library-id first to get a valid ID, UNLESS the user provides one in /org/project format. One concept per query. When a question spans several independent topics, run a separate lookup per topic. Do not run more than 3 lookup commands per topic. If you cannot find what you need, fall back to training knowledge and tell the user Context7 didn't cover it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 105 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A 351e7c248c3c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lookup is a skill published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (12 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 1,767 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.

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