build-repo-context

build-repo-context is a skill for Claude Code from UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_evals. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,989 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository-history review that reads pull requests, issue reports, and code-review comments to create or update a shared guide to the project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or refresh `agent_artefacts/repo_context/REPO_CONTEXT.md` from GitHub history. It is run on request or periodically by context agents.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents the project’s unwritten rules, recurring mistakes, and known technical debt without making them rediscover that history.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to build or refresh agent_artefacts/repo_context/REPO_CONTEXT.md from GitHub history. It is run on request or periodically by context agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ukgovernmentbeis/inspect_evals/build-repo-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 UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_evals --skill build-repo-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_evals

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,989 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00055 $0.01989
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00994
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00398
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00199

Measured 12d ago against content hash a7d45bcd0deb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-repo-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 12d 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.

.claude/skills/build-repo-context/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build Repo Context

Crawl GitHub history (PRs, issues, review comments) and distill institutional knowledge into agent_artefacts/repo_context/REPO_CONTEXT.md. This document helps worker agents understand repo conventions, common mistakes, and known tech debt before making changes.

Workflow

1. Setup

  1. Create agent_artefacts/repo_context/ if it doesn't exist
  2. Read existing agent_artefacts/repo_context/REPO_CONTEXT.md if present (will be updated, not replaced)

2. Identify What's New

Use the header of REPO_CONTEXT.md to determine what to process. The header contains the last-updated date and PR range (e.g., PRs processed: #965-#1050).

  • First run (no REPO_CONTEXT.md): Fetch the most recent 50 merged PRs + all open issues
  • Incremental runs: Fetch PRs merged after the highest PR number in the header, and issues updated since the last-updated date

Use the gh CLI to list candidates:

# First run: recent merged PRs
gh pr list --state merged --limit 50 --json number,title,labels,additions,deletions,reviewDecision,mergedAt

# Incremental: PRs merged since last crawl
gh pr list --state merged --search "merged:>YYYY-MM-DD" --limit 50 --json number,title,labels,additions,deletions,reviewDecision,mergedAt

# Open issues
gh issue list --state open --limit 100 --json number,title,labels,createdAt,updatedAt

3. Triage

Fast pass over PR titles and metadata. Skip these categories (they rarely contain design insights):

  • Dependency bumps (titles matching bump, update dependencies, renovate, dependabot)
  • Changelog-only updates (titles matching changelog, scriv)
  • Bot-generated PRs with no review comments
  • PRs with fewer than 5 lines changed and no review comments

Prioritize PRs that have:

  • Review comments (especially multiple rounds — that's where design discussion lives)
  • Changes touching shared utilities (src/inspect_evals/utils/, CONTRIBUTING.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, AGENTS.md)

Cap at 50 PRs per run to keep execution time reasonable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. 12d ago First seen · 175 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A a7d45bcd0deb

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build-repo-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_evals (665 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,989 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 2026-08-30.

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