# Extract And Format Context

> Use when extracting and formatting a block of text from a file.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-character-ai-larch-extract-and-format-context`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [character-ai](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/character-ai)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [character-ai](https://github.com/character-ai)
- **Source:** https://github.com/character-ai/larch/tree/main/.gemini/skills/extract-and-format-context

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-character-ai-larch-extract-and-format-context
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Extract and Format Context

This skill extracts and formats a block of text from a file.

## Usage

To use this skill, run the `run.sh` script with the following arguments:

```bash
/scripts/run.sh   
```

- ``: The path to the file to extract the context from.
- ``: The line number to center the context around.
- ``: The number of lines of context to extract on each side of the center line. The total number of lines extracted will be `2 *  + 1`.

The script will output the extracted context with line numbers.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [character-ai](https://github.com/character-ai)
- **Source:** [character-ai/larch](https://github.com/character-ai/larch)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-character-ai-larch-extract-and-format-context
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/character-ai
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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