| name | recall |
| description | Deeply retrieve Context Nest vault context for a topic and answer with citations. Use when you need the full graph of related vault knowledge beyond what auto-retrieval injected. |
| requirements | ["Bash","Read"] |
Deeply retrieve context from the Context Nest vault for the topic in
$ARGUMENTS and answer with citations. Use the Bash tool to run ctx.
Steps
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Choose the vault. Run ctx vault list --json first. If a vault is pinned
and its alias is in that list, use it (--vault <alias>). If a pinned alias
is not listed, the pin is stale — ignore it and pick the vault(s) whose
description matches $ARGUMENTS. If no vault is pinned, likewise pick by
description.
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Build a selector. Run ctx search "$ARGUMENTS" --json for seed node ids,
map ids → tags via ctx list --json, and form a tag selector
(#a | #b, + to AND, - to exclude).
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Load deeply. Run ctx query "<selector>" --hops 3 --json (add
--vault <alias> when chosen) to pull the documents and their related nodes.
Widen the selector or ctx read <id> individual nodes if results are thin.
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Answer. Summarize what the vault says about $ARGUMENTS, citing each point
as vault:id. End with a one-line list of the node ids used. If the vault has
nothing on the topic, say so directly.
This is a read-only recall — do not modify the vault.