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name: Context Building
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category: AI Engineering
description: Context Building assembles a minimal execution context bundle from retrieved memory, governed artefacts, and applicable rules. Use it after memory retrieval and before planning or implementation on complex tasks.
github: "https://github.com/digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework/tree/main/.gaai/core/skills/cross/context-building"
language: Shell
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source_path: .gaai/core/skills/cross/context-building/SKILL.md
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---

# Context Building

Context Building assembles a minimal execution context bundle from retrieved memory, governed artefacts, and applicable rules. Use it after memory retrieval and before planning or implementation on complex tasks.

**Install:**

```bash
npx degit https://github.com/digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework/tree/main/.gaai/core/skills/cross/context-building ~/.claude/skills/context-building
```

## README

# Context Building

## Purpose / When to Activate

Activate when context is fragmented or multiple memory sources need to be merged before a complex task:
- After `memory-retrieve` when inputs come from multiple memory files
- Before planning or implementation skills on complex, multi-artefact Stories
- When previous context bundles are stale or need restructuring

For simple, single-artefact tasks, an agent may reason directly without this skill. This skill does not retrieve knowledge — it **structures and composes** already-selected inputs into a focused bundle.

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## Process

1. Validate inputs are scoped and minimal
2. Remove duplicated or overlapping information
3. Prioritize: acceptance criteria, constraints, decisions, current artefacts
4. Structure the bundle in canonical order:
   - Current Objective
   - Governed Artefacts (Epics / Stories / Plans)
   - Acceptance Criteria & Constraints
   - Applicable Rules
   - Relevant Memory

5. Enforce minimal token footprint

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## Outputs

```
=== EXECUTION CONTEXT ===

OBJECTIVE:
...

ARTEFACTS:
...

ACCEPTANCE & CONSTRAINTS:
...

RULES:
...

RELEVANT MEMORY:
...

=========================
```

No prose. No fluff. No hidden reasoning.

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## Quality Checks

- Context is focused and task-specific
- No irrelevant memory included
- No artefacts outside scope
- Token usage minimized
- All constraints explicit

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## Non-Goals

This skill must NOT:
- Retrieve memory (use `memory-retrieve` first)
- Infer missing artefacts
- Add assumptions or expand scope
- Inject creative interpretation

**Retrieval decides what is relevant. Context building decides how it is fed to reasoning.**