# Gather Context

> - Gather background context before starting work or answering questions about a topic. Use when the user asks 'what do we know about', 'background on', 'catch me up on', 'context on', 'research X before starting', 'what's the history of', 'look into', 'investigate', 'find out about', or needs orientation on an unfamiliar area. Also use proactively at the start of a task when the work touches a named system or feature area (auth, payments, ingestion, a specific service), requires architectural judgment, or the codebase has prior decisions that could constrain the approach. Skip for mechanical edits, single-file changes, or clear-cut bug fixes where prior context is unlikely to change behavior. Combines knowledge base search, codebase exploration, and web search.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-halyard-labs-gather-context
- tashan id: skill:halyard-labs/gather-context
- Source: https://github.com/halyard-labs/claude-plugin-marketplace
- Type: skill
- Category: search
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 61.0
- Freshness: 92.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: NOASSERTION
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r gather-context ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-14 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.