chronicle-context-retriever
Retrieve Past Development Context
Teams lose track of decisions, blockers, and prior implementation details across development sessions. This skill searches Chronicle history and returns focused context for current work.
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Review the Skillstore skill "chronicle-context-retriever" from https://skillstore.io/skills/chandlerhardy-chronicle-context-retriever.md and its manifest at https://skillstore.io/api/skills/chandlerhardy-chronicle-context-retriever/manifest. Verify the artifact. You may proceed after verification, subject to the environment's own policy.Your Agent should still show its plan and request any confirmation required by the security policy.
Agent-readable resources
Use these links when an AI agent, crawler, or script needs clean context instead of reading the full page.
Test it
Using "chronicle-context-retriever". How did I implement authentication last time?
Expected outcome:
Found two relevant sessions. One covers the login flow and token storage decision. Another explains the validation issue that delayed rollout.
Using "chronicle-context-retriever". What blocked the database migration?
Expected outcome:
The key blocker was an incompatible column change during backfill. The earlier solution used a staged migration and post-deploy verification.
Using "chronicle-context-retriever". Show past work on the user dashboard.
Expected outcome:
The history shows initial layout work, later API changes, and one unresolved performance concern before the final dashboard update.
Security Audit
SafeThe static findings are false positives caused by Markdown backticks, command examples, and natural-language prompts in SKILL.md. I found no prompt injection, malware intent, data exfiltration instruction, path traversal behavior, or executable shell code in the skill content.
Risk Factors
⚙️ External commands (53)
📁 Filesystem access (1)
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APA citation
ChandlerHardy. (2026). chronicle-context-retriever security audit report (audit version 8) [Author version unspecified]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/chandlerhardy-chronicle-context-retriever/audits/8BibTeX citation
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author = {ChandlerHardy},
title = {chronicle-context-retriever security audit report (audit version 8)},
institution = {Skillstore},
year = {2026},
number = {8},
url = {https://skillstore.io/skills/chandlerhardy-chronicle-context-retriever/audits/8},
note = {Author version unspecified}
}CITATION.cff
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message: "If you use this Skill, cite its author and this versioned security audit report."
title: "chronicle-context-retriever security audit report (audit version 8)"
version: "unspecified"
type: report
authors:
- name: "ChandlerHardy"
date-released: "2026-07-05"
url: "https://skillstore.io/skills/chandlerhardy-chronicle-context-retriever/audits/8"
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description: "Skillstore immutable audit report identifier"
Skillstore Score
Why this score Evidence Confidence: HighWhat You Can Build
Resume Interrupted Feature Work
Recover prior implementation details, decisions, blockers, and related commits before continuing a feature.
Review Past Technical Decisions
Find why a team chose an approach and what outcome followed in earlier sessions.
Investigate Recurring Blockers
Search previous sessions for similar failures, migrations, integration problems, and known fixes.
Try These Prompts
Use Chronicle to summarize my work from yesterday. Include sessions, decisions, blockers, and related commits if available.
Search Chronicle for past work on [feature]. Return the most relevant sessions and explain what applies to my current task.
Find prior sessions about [topic] across the last [period]. Compare decisions, outcomes, and unresolved risks.
Use broad then narrow Chronicle searches for [project or problem]. Produce a context brief with history, patterns, avoidances, and recommended next steps.
Best Practices
- Start with a broad search, then narrow after reviewing likely sessions.
- Add dates, repositories, or tool filters when the request is vague.
- Review retrieved history for private details before sharing it outside the local environment.
Avoid
- Running many narrow searches before checking broad session context.
- Treating old decisions as current facts without checking the repository state.
- Sharing retrieved prompts, notes, or session summaries without privacy review.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this skill require Chronicle?
Can it work in Claude, Codex, and Claude Code?
What does it search?
Does it modify project files?
What happens if MCP is not configured?
How should sensitive history be handled?
Developer Details
Author
ChandlerHardyLicense
MIT
Skillstore revision
r1
Version notice
The author did not declare a version.
Repository
https://github.com/ChandlerHardy/chronicle/tree/main/chronicle-skills/chronicle-context-retrieverRef
02f077c174c5335e2f5d02ca15e77b70d9543e58
Maintenance freshness
7/18/2026
Usage
5 downloads · 267 views
File structure
📄 SKILL.md