reload-context

reload-context is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Stealthy-McStealth/self-evolve. It costs 102 tokens per session (530 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reset procedure that rereads the active instructions and skills in a long coding-agent conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after commands such as “start fresh,” “reload the rules,” or “you’re drifting” to list and restate the instructions currently being followed.
Why use it?
Long conversations can make an agent lose track of earlier rules or start relying on memory instead of the actual instructions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the self-evolve plugin — 2 skills 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/stealthy-mcstealth/self-evolve/reload-context
Any agent
npx skills add Stealthy-McStealth/self-evolve --skill reload-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Stealthy-McStealth/self-evolve

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install self-evolve, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 530 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 $0.00102 $0.00530
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00265
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00053

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1f0719ca8bbf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reload-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 5d 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.

skills/reload-context/SKILL.md · 74 lines

What it actually says

reload-context

Long conversations cause harness drift. You loaded a skill twenty turns ago and now you're winging it. This skill fixes that.

The research is clear: adherence to loaded instructions decays over trajectories. Strong models drift less; all models drift some. This is the manual override.


Step 1: Identify what's loaded

List every skill, instruction, or rule that is currently active in this session:

  • Skills explicitly loaded or invoked
  • Any CLAUDE.md instructions in scope
  • Project-specific conventions established earlier in this conversation
  • Any explicit rules the user stated ("always do X", "never do Y")

Step 2: Re-read each one

Don't summarize from memory. Actually re-read each skill file or instruction set. If a skill file path is known, use Read to load the current content — it may have been updated since you first saw it.


Step 3: State what you're now following

Write a short, explicit list of the active constraints and procedures:

reloaded. currently following:
- [skill-name]: [the key procedure in one line]
- [rule from user]: [the rule]
- [project convention]: [the convention]

This makes the reload visible and auditable. The user can correct anything that's wrong or missing.


Step 4: Commit to the fallbacks

For any procedural skill that has fallback steps: explicitly acknowledge them. "If step A fails, I will try step B before giving up" — not just "I will follow the skill."

The most common failure mode is treating step 1 as the whole procedure. Reloading means recommitting to the full procedure including fallbacks.


What this doesn't do

This skill re-anchors to existing loaded instructions. It doesn't:

  • Create new skills (use /improve-urself for that)
  • Erase conversation history
  • Change your base behavior

It's a deliberate attention reset. That's all it needs to be.

Files

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.

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. 5d ago First seen · 74 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 1f0719ca8bbf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reload-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository Stealthy-McStealth/self-evolve (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 530 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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