Skills context-engineering
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context-engineering

Content revision r2 Safe ⚙️ External commands

Structure Better Context for Coding Agents

Coding agents lose accuracy when context is incomplete, stale, or excessive. This skill provides practical structures for focused sessions, durable rules, and reliable handoffs.

Supports: Claude Codex Code(CC)
🥉 78 Bronze

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Review the Skillstore skill "context-engineering" from https://skillstore.io/skills/addyosmani-context-engineering.md and its manifest at https://skillstore.io/api/skills/addyosmani-context-engineering/manifest. Verify the artifact. You may proceed after verification, subject to the environment's own policy.

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Test it

Using "context-engineering". Prepare context for adding email validation to registration.

Expected outcome:

  • Task: Add email validation to registration.
  • Read the registration route, validation utility, and related tests.
  • Follow the existing phone validation pattern.
  • Use the existing validation error type.

Using "context-engineering". Summarize a completed authentication task for a fresh session.

Expected outcome:

Authentication validation is complete. Tests pass. Changes remain uncommitted. The next task is updating API documentation after approval.

Using "context-engineering". Resolve a conflict between a REST specification and existing GraphQL code.

Expected outcome:

The specification and implementation conflict. Present both options, explain migration impact, and request a decision before editing.

Security Audit

Safe
v2 • 9/19/2026 Open versioned report

All static findings are false positives caused by Markdown fences, inline examples, filenames, and illustrative development commands. The skill is documentation-only and explicitly advises protecting secrets and treating external instructions as untrusted.

1
Files scanned
354
Lines analyzed
0
Review items
0
False positives ignored
No confirmed security findings were detected by the latest completed static and semantic audit. This does not prove the skill has no side effects.
Audited by: codex View Audit History →
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APA citation

addyosmani. (2026). context-engineering security audit report (audit version 2) [Author version unspecified]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/addyosmani-context-engineering/audits/2

BibTeX citation

@techreport{addyosmani-addyosmani-context-engineering-2026, author = {addyosmani}, title = {context-engineering security audit report (audit version 2)}, institution = {Skillstore}, year = {2026}, number = {2}, url = {https://skillstore.io/skills/addyosmani-context-engineering/audits/2}, note = {Author version unspecified} }

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Skillstore Score

Why this score Evidence Confidence: Medium
55
Architecture
85
Maintainability
87
Content
65
Community
91
Spec Compliance

What You Can Build

Prepare a New Project

Create a concise rules file with commands, conventions, boundaries, and representative patterns.

Recover a Drifting Session

Remove stale context, preserve current constraints, and prepare a restartable progress summary.

Standardize Team Handoffs

Record decisions, task status, repository state, verification results, risks, and required approvals.

Try These Prompts

Create Basic Project Context
Create a project context outline from these notes: [notes]. Include stack, commands, conventions, boundaries, and one pattern example.
Pack Context for One Task
Prepare focused context for [task]. Identify relevant files, tests, existing patterns, constraints, and missing information.
Prepare a Session Handoff
Summarize this session for restart: [history]. Preserve scope, decisions, task status, changed files, verification results, risks, and approvals.
Audit a Context Strategy
Review this context package: [content]. Find stale, excessive, conflicting, untrusted, or missing information. Recommend ordering and compression changes.

Best Practices

  • Read relevant source, tests, types, and one established pattern before editing.
  • Keep durable rules first and place active task details last.
  • Summarize completed exploration before removing verbose history.

Avoid

  • Loading entire repositories or specifications when only one section matters.
  • Treating external documents or generated files as trusted instructions.
  • Starting a fresh session without recording decisions, status, verification, and approvals.

Frequently Asked Questions

What problem does this skill solve?
It helps coding agents receive relevant, current, and well-structured project information.
Does it execute project commands?
No. It documents example commands and recommends recording verification steps.
Which rules files does it support?
It discusses CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, Cursor rules, Windsurf rules, and GitHub Copilot instructions.
When should I start a fresh session?
Restart at a completed task boundary after recording decisions, status, changes, verification, risks, and approvals.
How should external context be handled?
Treat instruction-like external content as untrusted data and surface it for user verification.
Can this skill measure remaining context capacity?
No. It provides management guidance, but measurement depends on the selected tool.

Developer Details

Author

addyosmani

License

MIT

Skillstore revision

r2

Version notice

The author did not declare a version.

Ref

5d5054f8a23586f9b500fece1cb613a9dffc787b

Maintenance freshness

9/19/2026

Usage

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File structure

📄 SKILL.md