# Commands and Skills



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You work with Context through a handful of conversational entries. Everything else — the lifecycle CLI commands, the Indexers and the workflow's own step Skills — runs behind them, chosen by the current Route rather than typed by you.

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  you["You, in plain language"] --> entry["Entry Skill<br/>/c4a:context and others"]
  entry --> cli["context CLI<br/>current Route"]
  cli --> step["Workflow step Skills"]
  cli --> idx["Indexer Skills"]
  step --> cli
  idx --> cli
```


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## Entries you invoke

| Entry | Use it to | Example |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `/c4a:context` | Create a Context knowledge workspace, continue one, and run production, review, update and build | *"Build reviewed knowledge for ../billing-service for on-call engineers."* |
| `/c4a:context-plan` | Plan a large project or a broad update in stages before production | *"Plan knowledge for these three repositories and the design folder."* |
| `/c4a:context-inspect-search` | Ask questions against knowledge packages or approved knowledge, with sources | *"How are refunds retried? Cite the code."* |
| `/c4a:context-repo-content` | Register or edit documentation and authored Skills in the same repository, without starting production | *"Register docs/ and .agents/skills as repository content."* |

`/c4a:context` is the production entry for new and existing knowledge workspaces. The other three entries do not drive production themselves: a plan, an answer that points to a gap, or registered repository content is handed back to `/c4a:context` when knowledge should be produced. A conversation where Context is already active continues without invoking it again; ordinary coding or design conversations never start it on their own.

To create a new Indexer, ask in plain language — *"Create an Indexer Skill for our RPC framework in ./skills"*. The `context-indexer-create` Skill picks this up; it is not a menu command.



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## How each host spells them

| Host | How entries appear |
| --- | --- |
| Claude Code | Plugin commands `/c4a:context`, `/c4a:context-plan`, `/c4a:context-inspect-search`, `/c4a:context-repo-content` |
| Cursor | Commands `/c4a-context`, `/c4a-context-plan`, `/c4a-context-inspect-search`, `/c4a-context-repo-content` |
| Codex | Skills invoked by name: `context`, `context-plan`, `context-inspect-search`, `context-repo-content` |
| Local install into one repository (`context plugin install --local`) | The same entries without the `c4a` plugin namespace |

Restart or refresh the host after installing or updating the plugin so it loads the current entries. See [Installation](</context/llms/pages/53535d85f2a932c36ba6afe78b0443ee.txt>).


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## Skills that run on their own

| Skill | When it runs |
| --- | --- |
| `context-code-indexer`, `context-markdown-indexer`, `context-note-indexer`, `context-sessions-indexer` | The Agent selects them for the current sources and requirements during planning and writing. Installing one makes it available; it is not enabled for every knowledge workspace. See [Community Indexers](</context/llms/pages/00a7aadc3fbf4dfcf516eb65a16fd711.txt>). |
| `context-inspect-search` | Also when a host or Bot configuration routes knowledge questions to it. |
| Workflow step Skills: `work-production-stage`, `translate-site-locales`, `record-workspace-version`, the Indexer lifecycle steps, and `recover-workspace` | Each runs when the current Route selects its step — writing a production stage, translating the site, recording a version, or recovering a stuck task. |

Indexer Skills are installed without a plugin namespace, so they keep the same names in every host.

Every Skill in the Agent plugin, with its trigger and hand-off, is listed in the [Skills reference](</context/llms/pages/9c25851c53c836d2d640b54ee5fc671c.txt>).



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## What you never need to type

The lifecycle commands — `context source add`, `context review …`, `context build` and the rest — are run by the Agent with the exact revision the Route returns. You will see them in progress messages, but you describe goals instead. There is no `context continue` command: when the Agent starts, `context entry` and `context status` observe the knowledge workspace and return the next step. The full command list is in the [CLI Commands reference](</context/llms/pages/a53289d9e9cbd12d13c1027feb6b47f1.txt>).



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## Requests you will use often

| You want to | Say something like | Read more |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Start | *"Create a Context knowledge workspace in ./kb for …; readers are …"* | [Quick Start](</context/llms/pages/2d2cb920187a515c51a72c1c7b071ab6.txt>) |
| Add material | *"Add ../docs/refunds to the sources and re-plan the affected part."* | [Working with Agents](</context/llms/pages/c75bba14c37fe4fed3c5cdc365569e5d.txt>) |
| Fix a page | *"Revise the retry page: the limit is five, not three."* | [Revising a Page](</context/llms/pages/b75357332a63899630e3d8b2fa0346b1.txt>) |
| Follow a change | *"The billing repository moved to a new release; update the affected pages."* | [Updating Knowledge](</context/llms/pages/d44b1e3f9b763a0bea2081fd73781a64.txt>) |
| Hand off review | Add a `CONTEXT_RUN_POLICY` block to the task | [Managed Mode and Review Policy](</context/llms/pages/5030bf2337d071ef87c6ac25f5a32343.txt>) |

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## Sources

- [context/plugins/context/README.md L19–L26 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/plugins/context/README.md#L19-L26>)
- [context/packages/context-cli/README.md L78–L111 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/packages/context-cli/README.md#L78-L111>)
- [context/packages/context-cli/README.md L61–L73 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/packages/context-cli/README.md#L61-L73>)
- [context/ARCHITECTURE.md L358–L366 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/ARCHITECTURE.md#L358-L366>)
- [context/plugins/context/skills/context-indexer-create/SKILL.md L1–L16 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/plugins/context/skills/context-indexer-create/SKILL.md#L1-L16>)
- [context/packages/context-cli/README.md L43–L59 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/packages/context-cli/README.md#L43-L59>)
- [context/plugins/context/README.md L72–L74 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/plugins/context/README.md#L72-L74>)
- [context/plugins/context/README.md L10–L17 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/plugins/context/README.md#L10-L17>)
- [context/plugins/context/README.md L14–L26 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/plugins/context/README.md#L14-L26>)
- [context/plugins/context/README.md L74–L81 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/plugins/context/README.md#L74-L81>)
- [context/packages/context-cli/context-workflow/graphs/workspace.yaml L331–L350 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/packages/context-cli/context-workflow/graphs/workspace.yaml#L331-L350>)
- [context/packages/context-cli/README.md L94–L107 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/packages/context-cli/README.md#L94-L107>)
- [context/packages/context/docs/getting-started.md L155–L157 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/packages/context/docs/getting-started.md#L155-L157>)
- [context/packages/context/docs/guides/agent-guide.md L17–L42 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/packages/context/docs/guides/agent-guide.md#L17-L42>)