external-context

external-context is a skill for Claude Code from RobinNorberg/oh-my-copilot. It costs 16 tokens per session (522 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of external-context, MIT.

A research helper that breaks a question into several document searches and runs them in parallel.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare tools, check current programming practices, or find official documentation and supporting sources.
Why use it?
It reduces the time and effort needed to gather outside documentation and references for a technical question.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the oh-my-copilot plugin — 46 skills, 21 commands, 22 agents, 11 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/robinnorberg/oh-my-copilot/external-context
Any agent
npx skills add RobinNorberg/oh-my-copilot --skill external-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RobinNorberg/oh-my-copilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oh-my-copilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 skills, 21 commands, 22 agents, 11 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 522 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00016 $0.00522
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00261
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00052

Measured 2d ago against content hash ade5b061849e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

external-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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to external-context — 12 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/external-context/SKILL.md · 85 lines

What it actually says

External Context Skill

Fetch external documentation, references, and context for a query. Decomposes into 2-5 facets and spawns parallel document-specialist Claude agents.

Usage

/oh-my-copilot:external-context <topic or question>

Examples

/oh-my-copilot:external-context What are the best practices for JWT token rotation in Node.js?
/oh-my-copilot:external-context Compare Prisma vs Drizzle ORM for PostgreSQL
/oh-my-copilot:external-context Latest React Server Components patterns and conventions

Protocol

Step 1: Facet Decomposition

Given a query, decompose into 2-5 independent search facets:

## Search Decomposition

**Query:** <original query>

### Facet 1: <facet-name>
- **Search focus:** What to search for
- **Sources:** Official docs, GitHub, blogs, etc.

### Facet 2: <facet-name>
...

Step 2: Parallel Agent Invocation

Fire independent facets in parallel via Task tool:

Task(subagent_type="oh-my-copilot:document-specialist", model="sonnet", prompt="Search for: <facet 1 description>. Use WebSearch and WebFetch to find official documentation and examples. Cite all sources with URLs.")

Task(subagent_type="oh-my-copilot:document-specialist", model="sonnet", prompt="Search for: <facet 2 description>. Use WebSearch and WebFetch to find official documentation and examples. Cite all sources with URLs.")

Maximum 5 parallel document-specialist agents.

Step 3: Synthesis Output Format

Present synthesized results in this format:

## External Context: <query>

### Key Findings
1. **<finding>** - Source: [title](url)
2. **<finding>** - Source: [title](url)

### Detailed Results

#### Facet 1: <name>
<aggregated findings with citations>

#### Facet 2: <name>
<aggregated findings with citations>

### Sources
- [Source 1](url)
- [Source 2](url)

Configuration

  • Maximum 5 parallel document-specialist agents
  • No magic keyword trigger - explicit invocation only
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 · 85 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A ade5b061849e

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external-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository RobinNorberg/oh-my-copilot (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 522 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to external-context, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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