external-context

external-context is a skill for Claude Code from Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode. It costs 16 tokens per session (528 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for looking up outside documentation, references, and background information by splitting a question into several search topics. It assigns those topics to document-focused agents working in parallel.

In plain words
What is it for?
Researching APIs, libraries, technical practices, comparisons, and current documentation, then collecting source-backed findings for a coding task.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that one broad search will miss important parts of a technical question. Parallel searches can cover different sources or aspects at the same time.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the oh-my-claudecode plugin — 37 skills, 21 commands, 19 agents, 11 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

not rated 39krepo +53 today A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 16 tokens original MIT

Good fit Researching APIs, libraries, technical practices, comparisons, and current documentation, then collecting source-backed findings for a coding task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yeachan-heo/oh-my-claudecode/external-context
About the project

Oh My Claude Code is a multi-agent orchestration system for Claude Code, coordinating specialized agents, commands, skills, hooks, and workflows. It is designed for developers who want Claude Code to handle coding tasks through coordinated agent roles. Catalogue entries are components of its Claude Code workflow, including agents, commands, skills, hooks, instructions, MCP configuration, and a plugin.

Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode · 39,065 stars · on GitHub · oh-my-claudecode.dev

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 Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode --skill external-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oh-my-claudecode, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 21 commands, 19 agents, 11 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 528 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
  • Socket pass 20 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 20 Mar 2026
  • 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 $0.00016 $0.00528
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00264
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00053

Measured 10d ago against content hash 34303b3e62f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

external-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 10d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/external-context/SKILL.md · 85 lines

What it actually says

External Context Skill

Fetch external documentation, references, and context for a query. Decomposes into 2-5 facets and spawns parallel document-specialist Claude agents.

Usage

/oh-my-claudecode:external-context <topic or question>

Examples

/oh-my-claudecode:external-context What are the best practices for JWT token rotation in Node.js?
/oh-my-claudecode:external-context Compare Prisma vs Drizzle ORM for PostgreSQL
/oh-my-claudecode:external-context Latest React Server Components patterns and conventions

Protocol

Step 1: Facet Decomposition

Given a query, decompose into 2-5 independent search facets:

## Search Decomposition

**Query:** <original query>

### Facet 1: <facet-name>
- **Search focus:** What to search for
- **Sources:** Official docs, GitHub, blogs, etc.

### Facet 2: <facet-name>
...

Step 2: Parallel Agent Invocation

Fire independent facets in parallel via Task tool:

Task(subagent_type="oh-my-claudecode:document-specialist", model="sonnet", prompt="Search for: <facet 1 description>. Use WebSearch and WebFetch to find official documentation and examples. Cite all sources with URLs.")

Task(subagent_type="oh-my-claudecode:document-specialist", model="sonnet", prompt="Search for: <facet 2 description>. Use WebSearch and WebFetch to find official documentation and examples. Cite all sources with URLs.")

Maximum 5 parallel document-specialist agents.

Step 3: Synthesis Output Format

Present synthesized results in this format:

## External Context: <query>

### Key Findings
1. **<finding>** - Source: [title](url)
2. **<finding>** - Source: [title](url)

### Detailed Results

#### Facet 1: <name>
<aggregated findings with citations>

#### Facet 2: <name>
<aggregated findings with citations>

### Sources
- [Source 1](url)
- [Source 2](url)

Configuration

  • Maximum 5 parallel document-specialist agents
  • No magic keyword trigger - explicit invocation only
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. 10d ago First seen · 85 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 34303b3e62f5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

external-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode (39,065 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 528 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.

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