External Context

External Context is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by Yeachan-Heo in oh-my-claudecode.

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Install External Context

Copy External Context 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/Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode/tree/main/skills/external-context ~/.claude/skills/external-context

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/Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/external-context/SKILL.md in Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/external-context
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What External Context does

External Context decomposes a query into parallel search facets and invokes document-specialist agents to fetch external documentation, references, and context with citations. Use it when you need up-to-date information from official docs, blogs, or the web for a technical question.

External Context is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. External Context comes from a repository tagged agentic-coding, ai-agents, automation, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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

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

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

Frequently asked about External Context

What else does Yeachan-Heo publish alongside External Context?
External Context is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Slop Cleaner, Ask and Autopilot. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way External Context does, and is maintained by Yeachan-Heo in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode page.
How does External Context compare to other AI Engineering skills?
External Context ranks #140 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 External Context against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.