Context Mode

Context Mode is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by mksglu in context-mode.

19.9K stars1.4K forkson mksglu/context-modeAdded 2026/08/14Repository updated 2026/08/13

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Install Context Mode

Copy Context Mode into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/mksglu/context-mode/tree/main/skills/context-mode ~/.claude/skills/context-mode

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/mksglu/context-mode.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/context-mode/SKILL.md in mksglu/context-mode
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/context-mode
Collection: One of 11 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Context Mode does

Context Mode routes commands and file reads that may produce large output to context-mode tools (ctx_execute, ctx_execute_file) instead of Bash or cat, keeping the agent's context window clean. Use it whenever analyzing logs, parsing data, running tests, fetching docs, or processing MCP tool output that may exceed 20 lines.

Context Mode is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Context Mode comes from a repository tagged antigravity, claude, claude-code, claude-code-hooks and claude-code-plugins.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Context Mode: Default for All Large Output

MANDATORY RULE

<context_mode_logic> <mandatory_rule> Default to context-mode for ALL commands. Only use Bash for guaranteed-small-output operations. </mandatory_rule> </context_mode_logic>

Bash whitelist (safe to run directly):

File mutations: mkdir, mv, cp, rm, touch, chmod
Git writes: git add, git commit, git push, git checkout, git branch, git merge
Navigation: cd, pwd, which
Process control: kill, pkill
Package management: npm install, npm publish, pip install
Simple output: echo, printf

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Context Mode

What else does mksglu publish alongside Context Mode?
Context Mode is one of 11 skills that DirSkills catalogs from mksglu/context-mode, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Context Index, Context Mode and Context Mode. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Context Mode does, and is maintained by mksglu in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the mksglu/context-mode page.
How does Context Mode compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Context Mode ranks #266 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Context Mode against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.