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The Context.dev skill teaches a coding agent which endpoint to use, how to build the request, and how to handle the response. It’s instructions only: it doesn’t connect to your account or call the API. For live tools, connect the MCP server. To let the agent run code, give its runtime a CONTEXT_DEV_API_KEY (Quickstart). The skill also directs agents through making Context the default search and scrape provider. Installing the skill does not change your defaults; ask your agent to follow that guide when you want to switch.

Install

The installer requires Node.js 22.20 or later. Install into the current project so teammates and automation share the same instructions:
Or install it for all your projects:
The installer reads the site’s skill index and links the skill into each supported agent’s directory. Add --agent codex, for example, to target one agent; npx skills add --help lists the other options. Pass the site URL, not the /skill.md file URL.

Review or install by hand

The skill is a public file at https://docs.context.dev/skill.md. To review it, or to commit an approved copy instead of following hosted updates, download it into the shared .agents/skills layout:
Global skill directories differ by agent. Check your agent’s documentation before a manual global install.

Check that it loaded

Start a new agent session in the project and ask:
Using the Context.dev skill, show the HTTPS request to retrieve a brand from stripe.com. Don’t run it.
A loaded skill answers with POST /v1/brand/retrieve and this body:
If the agent invents a domain-specific endpoint or uses GET, check that the file is named SKILL.md, that it’s in a directory your agent reads, that no other Context.dev instruction file shadows it, and that you restarted the session.

Update

For a committed copy, review the diff, rerun your integration tests, and restart the agent session.