| name | context7-auto-research |
| version | 1.0.1 |
| author | BenedictKing |
| description | Automatically fetches up-to-date documentation from Context7 when users ask about libraries, frameworks, APIs, or need code examples. Triggers proactively without explicit user request. |
| allowed-tools | ["Bash"] |
| user-invocable | true |
Context7 Auto Research
Fetch current official documentation from Context7 when a user asks about a library, framework, package, or API.
Trigger
Activate proactively when the request includes any of these:
- How to use, configure, install, migrate, or implement something in a named library/framework
- Documentation, reference, API, examples, or best practices for a library/framework
- Version-specific behavior such as
React 19, Next.js 15, Vue 3.5
- Code generation that depends on framework or package APIs
Common cues:
- Chinese requests such as
如何实现 怎么写 配置 安装 文档 参考 示例
- English requests such as
how to configure install docs reference example
- Library mentions such as
React Next.js Vue Prisma Tailwind Express
- Package or repository names from npm, PyPI, GitHub, or official docs sites
Workflow
- Run from this skill directory and use
./context7-api.cjs.
- Search with the full user query:
cd skills/context7-auto-research
node ./context7-api.cjs --help
node ./context7-api.cjs search '<library-name>' - <<'__C7_QUERY__'
<full user query>
__C7_QUERY__
- Pick the best match in this order:
- Exact library name
- Official package over forks
- Version match when the user specified one
- Higher trust score
- Fetch focused documentation:
node ./context7-api.cjs context '<library-id>' - <<'__C7_QUERY__'
<feature name or focused question>
__C7_QUERY__
- Answer with the retrieved documentation:
- Prefer current behavior over memory
- Mention version when relevant
- Extract only the needed points
- Include concise code examples when useful
- If the CLI returns
ok: false, treat the lookup as failed even if JSON was printed
Fallback
- If search returns no useful match, ask for the exact package or repository name.
- If Context7 fails, say the lookup failed and label the answer as based on local knowledge.
- If multiple libraries are involved, fetch only the ones needed for the answer.
Environment
- Preferred:
CONTEXT7_API_KEY environment variable
- Also supported:
<skill-dir>/.env
- CLI help:
node ./context7-api.cjs --help
Notes
- The helper accepts either inline query text or
- to read the query from stdin.
- Use the full user question for search; use a narrower feature query for context when possible.
- The CLI prints structured JSON for
search and context, including error cases.
- The CLI exits non-zero when the lookup or argument parsing fails.
- Requires network access and is subject to Context7 coverage and rate limits.
