collect-target-context

A workflow for collecting basic information and initial notes about a chosen target, such as a product, website, or other subject being investigated.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to normalize a target name, gather baseline facts, and produce a target metadata file and context notes.
Why use it?
It creates a consistent starting point before deeper analysis begins. The results are saved as reusable files instead of relying on scattered notes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/understudy-ai/understudy/collect-target-context
Any agent
npx skills add understudy-ai/understudy --skill collect-target-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/understudy-ai/understudy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 211 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 $0.00014 $0.00211
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00105
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00021

Measured 2d ago against content hash ef0915f250b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

collect-target-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.

packages/gateway/src/__tests__/fixtures/handwritten-playbook-demo/skills/collect-target-context/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

collect-target-context

Overall Goal

Collect the baseline target metadata and first-pass context notes for the selected target.

Inputs

  • targetName
  • artifactsRootDir

Outputs

  • target.json
  • context.md

Staged Workflow

  1. Normalize the target name and artifacts root path.
  2. Gather stable baseline facts for the target bundle.
  3. Write target.json and context.md.

Tool Route Options

  • shell for writing deterministic output files
  • gui when baseline facts must be grounded from the visible target surface

Detailed GUI Replay Hints

  • Prefer surface-local capture whenever the target is visible in a bounded window.
  • Quote visible labels if the operator needs to re-run the capture manually.

Failure Policy

  • Stop if no target name is available.
  • Preserve partial context output rather than overwriting it with empty data.
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 · 45 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A ef0915f250b3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

collect-target-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository understudy-ai/understudy (456 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 211 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.