# Load Context

> Use at the start of /research and other workflow recipes to establish vault grounding. Loads vault bootstrap (profile.md), checks inbox, and pre-warms project context if a topic anchor is implied. Repo/git detection lands with /plan and /implement.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-ethanaubuchon-dossier-tradecraft-load-context`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [ethanaubuchon](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/ethanaubuchon)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Security](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/security)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [ethanaubuchon](https://github.com/ethanaubuchon)
- **Source:** https://github.com/ethanaubuchon/dossier-tradecraft/tree/main/skills/load-context

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-ethanaubuchon-dossier-tradecraft-load-context
```

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

## About

# Load Context

Call this once at the start of a workflow recipe to establish working context. In `/research`, this is the vault grounding pre-step — it loads the context that informs downstream web queries.

## Steps

1. Call `mcp__dossier-mcp__get_vault_context`. This loads `profile.md` silently — do not summarize or recite it.

2. Call `mcp__dossier-mcp__list_notes(path: "inbox")`. If the inbox is non-empty, surface a one-line nudge to the user: `Inbox has N notes — worth processing before we start?`

3. If the user has supplied a research topic with a clear project anchor (e.g. "relocation healthcare costs" → `projects/relocation`), call `mcp__dossier-mcp__list_notes(path: "projects/")` to pre-warm topic context. Skip if no anchor is obvious — `vault-researcher` will find what it needs.

## Output

No structured return value. Context loads into the conversation. The recipe continues to its next step.

## Future scope (not in Phase 1)

- Repo / vault / mixed environment detection
- `git status` snapshot for the working dir

## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [ethanaubuchon](https://github.com/ethanaubuchon)
- **Source:** [ethanaubuchon/dossier-tradecraft](https://github.com/ethanaubuchon/dossier-tradecraft)
- **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-ethanaubuchon-dossier-tradecraft-load-context
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/ethanaubuchon
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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