gather-context

gather-context is a skill for Claude Code from t1djani/servo. It costs 52 tokens per session (557 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-context skill that reads the project's recorded sources of truth and prepares a short brief before work begins or changes phase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify relevant project rules, prior work, risks, and subject-matter experts, then confirm that context with a person.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated fact-finding, prevents the agent from missing existing decisions and constraints, and limits irrelevant information.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the servo plugin — 9 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to identify relevant project rules, prior work, risks, and subject-matter experts, then confirm that context with a person.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/t1djani/servo/gather-context
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 t1djani/servo --skill gather-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/t1djani/servo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install servo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 command.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 557 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 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 5.1 $0.00052 $0.00557
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00279
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00056

Measured 7d ago against content hash cd231a0b9551, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

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 7d 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/gather-context/SKILL.md · 27 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 27 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

gather-context

Load the ground truth a task needs before touching it — and again whenever the work has moved the ground. Context decays over a long session and drifts as the work changes state; the slice of truth that matters before writing a plan is not the same one that mattered before the brainstorm. So this is a recurring ritual, not a one-time setup.

The failure this prevents: an agent re-deriving facts that already exist (in the manifest's oracles), or asking the human to re-feed context the project already records.

Procedure

  1. Read the manifest. .servo/manifest.yaml lists the project's oracles (where ground truth lives) and experts (the domains). If there is no manifest, run scan-project first.

  2. Pull only the relevant slices. For the task at hand, decide which oracles matter (scope of the work, invariants it could break, prior art that already exists, known footguns) and read those sources — and only those. Do not ingest everything; pull the slice the task needs.

  3. Write a short context brief. A few lines: what the task is, what it must not break (invariants), what already exists (prior art), which footguns apply, which experts are relevant. Cite the oracle each fact came from.

  4. Confirm in one batch — not one question at a time. Where the brief has gaps or assumptions, ask the human all the open questions at once, with proposed answers pre-filled from the context. The human is the CEO/client seat here: they own the intent. Their answers are input to pressure-test, not orders to execute blindly.

  5. Carry the brief forward — it is the cache. The brief is read ONCE here and then consumed by the downstream phases (the expert panel, the gates). Hand subagents the brief instead of having each one re-read the raw oracles; a subagent only goes back to a raw source when it genuinely needs to go deeper than the brief. Reading the same vault notes and specs eleven times, once per subagent, is the main avoidable cost in the flow. At the next phase boundary, re-run this skill on the slice that now matters.

Read the full file on GitHub · 27 lines

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 · 27 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A cd231a0b9551

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gather-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository t1djani/servo (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 557 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 2026-08-31.

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