Context Mode

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

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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/configs/copilot-cli/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: configs/copilot-cli/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 enforces mandatory routing rules that keep raw bytes out of an agent's context window. Use it when analyzing, counting, filtering, comparing, searching, parsing, or transforming data, fetching URLs, or running data-heavy commands.

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 — MANDATORY routing rules

context-mode MCP tools are available in GitHub Copilot CLI. These rules protect the context window from flooding — one unrouted command can dump tens of KB into the conversation. Follow them strictly.

Think in Code — MANDATORY

Analyze / count / filter / compare / search / parse / transform data: write code via ctx_execute(language, code) and console.log() only the answer. Do NOT read raw data into context. PROGRAM the analysis, do not COMPUTE it by reading. One script replaces ten tool calls.

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 #268 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.