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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.

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Install

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.

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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.

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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.

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Update

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