Contextual Help

by agenticnotetaking

Contextual Help is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by agenticnotetaking in arscontexta.

3.5K stars219 forkson agenticnotetaking/arscontextaAdded 2026/08/16Repository updated 2026/02/24

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claude-codeclaude-code-pluginknowledge-baseknowledge-managementmarkdownsecond-brain

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Install Contextual Help

Copy Contextual Help 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/agenticnotetaking/arscontexta/tree/main/skills/help ~/.claude/skills/help

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/agenticnotetaking/arscontexta.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/help/SKILL.md in agenticnotetaking/arscontexta
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/help
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Contextual Help does

Contextual Help provides contextual guidance and command discovery for the Ars Contexta knowledge system. It shows available commands, active skills, and intelligent suggestions in narrative, contextual, or compact modes based on vault state.

Contextual Help is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Contextual Help comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-plugin, knowledge-base, knowledge-management and markdown.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

EXECUTE NOW

Target: $ARGUMENTS

Parse immediately:

If target contains --compact: force compact mode regardless of vault state
If target contains a skill name (e.g., "help reduce" or "help reflect"): show detailed help for that specific skill
If target is empty: determine mode from vault state

Execute these steps:

Gather vault state (Step 1)
Resolve domain vocabulary (Step 2)
Determine mode (Step 3)
Discover commands dynamically (Step 4)
Render the appropriate mode (Step 5)

START NOW. Reference below defines each step.

Step 1: Gather Vault State

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

Commands Contextual Help provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/reduce
/ask
/learn
/next
/help
/reflect
/reweave
/verify
/health
/rethink
/remember
/architect

Frequently asked about Contextual Help

What else does agenticnotetaking publish alongside Contextual Help?
Contextual Help is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from agenticnotetaking/arscontexta, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Add Domain, Ars Contexta Setup and Ars Contexta Tutorial. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Contextual Help does, and is maintained by agenticnotetaking in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the agenticnotetaking/arscontexta page.
How does Contextual Help compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Contextual Help ranks #597 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 Contextual Help against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.