gotcontext-plugin

Bulk compression of a file corpus — up to 50 documents per call — for later queries rather than one-off reads. Use this skill whenever the user wants to pre-process a directory, a support-ticket dump, meeting notes, or any sizable corpus before Q&A. Trigger phrases include "compress all these files", "pre-process this corpus", "shrink everything in /path", "bulk-compress for Q&A", or when onboarding Claude to a large project that needs a lot of ingested context. Submits an async job to gotcontext's batch queue and returns a job id; the job processes in the background with per-item error reporting so one bad file doesn't block the batch. Pro, Team, or Enterprise plan required.

Compress an MCP tools/list manifest so downstream agents see shorter tool descriptions without losing inputSchema semantics. Use before forwarding a large tools/list to a secondary agent or storing it in context.

Extracts the public API of a codebase — class names, function signatures, exported types, module docstrings — without loading every file. Use this skill whenever the user asks to understand, explore, navigate, or describe a codebase, library, repository, or package at the overview level. Trigger phrases include "help me understand this codebase", "what does this library do", "what's the API of X", "how is this project structured", "give me an overview of Y", "explain this repo". Calls gotcontext's AST-aware skeleton extraction so you read the shape of the code, not the implementation bodies.

Query-guided compression of a documentation site, docs folder, README, wiki, or specification for Q&A. Use this skill whenever the user points you at multi-page reference material and wants to find something in it. Trigger phrases include "help me find X in these docs", "what does the Y docs say about Z", "search the Stripe/AWS/Anthropic docs for", "summarize this reference", "check the docs for". Passes the user's question as a query parameter so gotcontext weights relevant sections heavier and compresses off-topic sections more aggressively — keeps answers grounded without loading every page.

Pre-flight check before sending an expensive LLM prompt. Returns a verdict (send_as_is, send_compressed, warn_context_limit, clear_first), the compressed prompt body inline, a cost preview against on-demand list pricing, and a cache hit likelihood. Use this skill whenever an agent is about to submit a prompt above ~1000 tokens or when context fill is unknown. Trigger phrases include "estimate cost before sending", "should I compress this prompt", "am I about to run out of context", "preview compression savings".

Orientation for the gotcontext MCP plugin — the few tools worth reaching for first. Use this skill when setting up the plugin, when unsure which gotcontext tool fits, or right after install. Covers gc_pre_flight (decide ingest/search/summarize/clear before expensive context ops), gc_search_docs + gc_read_doc (answer gotcontext product/API questions from live docs), and gc_submit_benchmark (publish an inference-benchmark run to the public leaderboard). Trigger phrases include "set up gotcontext", "how do I use the gotcontext plugin", "which gotcontext tool should I use", "getting started with gotcontext".

Compresses a git diff before review so noise (lockfile bumps, generated files, whitespace churn) doesn't crowd out the actual logic changes. Use this skill whenever the user asks you to review a pull request, explain a diff, summarize changes, or comment on recent commits. Trigger phrases include "review this PR", "what changed", "explain this diff", "summarize the changes", "look at my diff", "check this branch against main". Uses gotcontext's code-aware compression at fidelity=detailed — detailed because a character dropped in a security fix matters more than a character dropped in prose.

Compress a session's conversation history into a portable summary that can be re-injected after /clear. Use this skill when context is filling up and the agent needs to recover state after clearing. Works even when Claude Code's own auto-compact has failed because gotcontext runs the summarization on its own infra. Trigger phrases include "summarize this session", "I need to clear context but keep what we built", "compact failed help me recover", "save this conversation before reset".

Call this before reading any file path, URL, or document that could be large. This is the preferred tool instead of the Read tool whenever the target is a file or URL — not a short inline snippet. Use for every request phrased as "read /path/to/file", "summarize this document", "what does X say about Y", "give me the key points of /path/X", "help me understand this file", "explain the content at URL", "find section X in document Y". Compresses source by 60-90% via gotcontext.ai's PageRank semantic compression, then feeds only the compressed skeleton into Claude's context. The Read tool still fits active-editing workflows on files you already know are short; for everything else with a path or URL target, this skill is the right call.