External Resource Context

External Resource Context is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by shinpr in claude-code-workflows.

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Install External Resource Context

Copy External Resource 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/shinpr/claude-code-workflows/tree/main/skills/external-resource-context ~/.claude/skills/external-resource-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/shinpr/claude-code-workflows.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/external-resource-context/SKILL.md in shinpr/claude-code-workflows
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/external-resource-context
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What External Resource Context does

External Resource Context records where external resources live and how to reach them for design, implementation, and verification. Use it when work depends on a design source, API schema, IaC source, secret store, or other canonical external system.

External Resource Context is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. External Resource Context comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-ai, agentic-coding, ai-agents and anthropic.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

External Resource Context

Purpose

Repository evidence does not contain every external resource surrounding a system. This skill captures, in a deterministic location, the access methods to resources outside the repository so downstream work (design, planning, implementation, review) can reach them without repeatedly rediscovering access details.

Resources covered: design origin (where the canonical visual specification lives), design system (component library and tokens), guidelines (usage docs, accessibility rules), visual verification environment (how to confirm rendering), database schema source, migration history, secret store location, API schema source (OpenAPI / proto / GraphQL SDL), mock environment, IaC source, environment configuration.

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

Frequently asked about External Resource Context

What else does shinpr publish alongside External Resource Context?
External Resource Context is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from shinpr/claude-code-workflows, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Developer Guide, Coding Principles and Documentation Criteria. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way External Resource Context does, and is maintained by shinpr in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the shinpr/claude-code-workflows page.
How does External Resource Context compare to other AI Engineering skills?
External Resource Context ranks #1811 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 Resource Context against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.