context-fundamentals

context-fundamentals is a skill for Claude Code from nek1987/auto-agent-harness. It costs 69 tokens per session (2,116 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to the basic ideas behind context in AI-agent systems, including context limits, attention, and how information is selected.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn about context windows, agent design, progressive disclosure, and context budgeting.
Why use it?
It gives you a foundation for understanding why an agent may miss, confuse, or forget information.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to learn about context windows, agent design, progressive disclosure, and context budgeting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nek1987/auto-agent-harness/context-fundamentals
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 nek1987/auto-agent-harness --skill context-fundamentals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nek1987/auto-agent-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,116 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 unknown 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 $0.00069 $0.02116
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01058
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00423
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00212

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4f6b700280f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-fundamentals 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/context_manager.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.

.claude/skills/context-fundamentals/SKILL.md · 186 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 7d ago First seen · 186 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 4f6b700280f6

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context-fundamentals is a skill published in the GitHub repository nek1987/auto-agent-harness (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 2,116 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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