context-manager

context-manager is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Vimalk0703/shipworthy. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,743 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for organizing the instructions and project knowledge an AI coding assistant uses. It explains seven ways to keep decisions, rules, and learnings in the right files and easy to find.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to structure CLAUDE.md files, record project decisions and learnings, and decide where new knowledge belongs.
Why use it?
It helps prevent important project knowledge from getting lost, repeated, or mixed into an overly large conversation. It also makes guidance more consistent across work sessions and assistant instances.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the shipworthy plugin — 41 skills, 7 commands, 6 agents, 3 hooks 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/vimalk0703/shipworthy/context-manager
Any agent
npx skills add Vimalk0703/shipworthy --skill context-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Vimalk0703/shipworthy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install shipworthy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 7 commands, 6 agents, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,743 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 $0.00054 $0.01743
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00872
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00349
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00174

Measured 4d ago against content hash 87da1b66bba0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-manager 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 4d 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/operations/context-manager/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context Manager

Purpose

Context quality matters more than model capability. This skill teaches Claude HOW to build maximum project understanding by routing knowledge to the right place and following the 7 principles that make context survive across sessions, context compaction, and multiple Claude instances.

The 7 Principles of Context Engineering

1. Prohibitions Beat Descriptions

Rules framed as what NOT to do survive context decay. Descriptive rules drift.

Wrong Right
We use Supabase for our database. NEVER use Prisma. NEVER use Drizzle. Supabase only.
We prefer pino for logging. NEVER use console.log — pino is already configured.
We use Jest for testing. NEVER use Mocha or Vitest. Jest only.

2. Anchor Rules to File Paths

Verifiable rules reference the actual file tree. Abstract rules drift because Claude has nothing concrete to check against.

Wrong Right
Use Zod for validation. All validation schemas live in src/schemas/. NEVER inline validation.
We use Express with a standard structure. All routes in src/routes/. All middleware in src/middleware/. All models in src/models/.
Tests should be nearby. Tests colocated: src/foo.ts has src/foo.test.ts. NEVER put tests in a separate tests/ tree.

3. Negative Examples Anchor Harder

A regression fence of documented past mistakes works better than abstract best practices. Claude avoids repeating documented failures more reliably than it follows aspirational rules.

The regression fence lives at .shipworthy/regression-fence.md and is loaded every session as hard constraints. See the Regression Fence section below.

4. Constitution vs Working Memory

Two files, two jobs:

  • CLAUDE.md = Constitution. Stable. Rarely changing. Stack locks, prohibitions, directory structure, non-negotiable rules. Read every session.
  • .shipworthy/sessions/ = Working memory. Dynamic. Updated every session. What happened, what's in progress, what's next.

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. 4d ago First seen · 147 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 87da1b66bba0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

context-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository Vimalk0703/shipworthy (7 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,743 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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