# Cargo Context

> Inspect and edit the workspace's git-backed context repository (the GTM knowledge base of markdown/MDX files) and its runtime sandbox using the Cargo CLI. Use when the user wants to browse/read/write/edit context files, run a command in the sandbox, or inspect the context knowledge graph.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-getcargohq-cargo-skills-cargo-context`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [getcargohq](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/getcargohq)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Content & Media](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/content-and-media)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [getcargohq](https://github.com/getcargohq)
- **Source:** https://github.com/getcargohq/cargo-skills/tree/main/cargo-context
- **Website:** https://getcargo.ai

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-getcargohq-cargo-skills-cargo-context
```

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

## About

# Cargo CLI — Context

The **context** is a git-backed repository of typed markdown/MDX files that captures a workspace's GTM knowledge (company narrative, ICPs, personas, plays, proof, objections, etc.) and is read/written by both humans and agents. The `cargo-ai context` domain has two subdomains you'll use:

- **runtime** — browse, read, write, edit, and execute against the workspace's runtime sandbox (a checked-out copy of the context repo). `write`/`edit` are pushed to the default branch; `execute` runs are **not** pushed.
- **graph** — build/load the knowledge graph derived from every markdown/MDX file in the context repo.

> The canonical example of a context repository is [`getcargohq/cargo-workspaces`](https://github.com/getcargohq/cargo-workspaces). Read its `README.md` to understand the domain layout and file conventions before writing new entries.
> For uploading runtime-independent files (CSVs, PDFs) used in batch runs, use [`cargo-workspace-management`](../cargo-workspace-management/SKILL.md) (`cargo-ai workspaceManagement file upload`) instead.
> For RAG file attachments to agents, use [`cargo-ai`](../cargo-ai/SKILL.md) (`cargo-ai content file upload`).

> See `references/conventions.md` for the full context repo structure and per-domain templates.
> See `references/response-shapes.md` for the JSON shapes returned by each `cargo-ai context` command.
> See `references/troubleshooting.md` for common errors and how to fix them.
> See `references/examples/authoring.md` for end-to-end add / edit / delete recipes.
> See `references/examples/lifecycle.md` for the bootstrap + refresh-from-calls playbook.
> See `references/examples/graph-queries.md` for inspecting the knowledge graph.

## Prerequisites

See [`../cargo/references/prerequisites.md`](../cargo/references/prerequisites.md) for install, login (`--oauth` / `--token`), JSON output conventions, and error shapes. Verify the session with `cargo-ai whoami` before running any of the commands below — `runtime write` and `runtime edit` push commits to the workspace's context repo, so confirming `workspace.name` first is non-negotiable.

## Discover the context first

Before editing anything, see what's in the context repo:

```bash
cargo-ai context runtime browse                 # list entries at the runtime sandbox root
cargo-ai context graph get                      # full knowledge graph derived from the repo's md/mdx files
```

## Quick reference

```bash
# Runtime sandbox (checked-out copy of the context repo)
cargo-ai context runtime browse [--path ]
cargo-ai context runtime read --path  [--start-line ] [--end-line ]
cargo-ai context runtime write --path  --content  [--commit-message ]
cargo-ai context runtime edit --path  --old-string  --new-string  [--commit-message ]
cargo-ai context runtime execute --command  [--args ]

# Knowledge graph
cargo-ai context graph get
```

## Runtime sandbox

The **runtime sandbox** is a checked-out, executable copy of the context repository. It's the surface you use to read and modify context files, and to run commands against them.

Two important behaviors to remember:

- **`write` and `edit` push to the default branch** of the context repo. They are not local-only.
- **`execute` does *not* push.** Changes made to files by a shell command run via `execute` stay in the sandbox and are discarded — use `execute` for builds, tests, or inspection, not for committing edits.

**Uploaded content files are available read-only under `.files/`.** The workspace's `content file` uploads (PDFs, CSVs, text — see [`cargo-content`](../cargo-content/SKILL.md)) appear in the sandbox under a `.files/` directory, so a command run via `execute` (or `read`/`browse`) can consume them — e.g. `cargo-ai context runtime execute --command ls --args '["-1",".files"]'`. It sits **outside the committed context tree**: the sandbox's auto-commit skips it, so nothing under `.files/` is ever pushed to the context repo, and you can't add or change content files from here (use `cargo-ai content file …` instead).

Because writes push immediately, **confirm the target workspace before the first `write`/`edit`**:

```bash
cargo-ai whoami   # → workspace.uuid, workspace.name
```

Read the workspace name back to the user. If the session is for a specific client, make sure `workspace.name` matches before authoring anything — there is no dry-run mode. If `workspace.name` is generic or ambiguous (e.g. "Main", "Test", a person's name, an internal codename), don't guess — ask the user for the company name and canonical domain (`example.com`) and confirm both before the first write. If you logged in without pinning a workspace, re-run `cargo-ai login --oauth --workspace-uuid ` (or `--token ` for non-interactive use).

Edits derived from sales-call analysis should be applied **one at a time with human review**, not batched. Looping an agent over many calls tends to overweight the loudest signal and miss nuance — see `references/examples/lifecycle.md` for the call-refresh playbook.

### Browse and read

```bash
# List entries at the root of the runtime sandbox
cargo-ai context runtime browse

# List entries under a subpath (e.g. a domain folder like persona/ or play/)
cargo-ai context runtime browse --path persona

# Read a full file
cargo-ai context runtime read --path persona/vp-sales-mid-market.md

# Read only a line range (1-indexed, inclusive on both ends)
cargo-ai context runtime read --path play/inbound-trial-to-paid.md --start-line 1 --end-line 40
```

### Write a new file

`write` creates (or overwrites) a file and pushes a commit to the default branch.

Begin every `.md`/`.mdx` file with a YAML frontmatter block setting `title` and `description`. Frontmatter is **not validated** — a file with missing, empty, or malformed frontmatter is still written and committed; it just indexes poorly in the graph (a missing `title` falls back to the filename, the node summary to the first paragraph). `write` can still fail for other reasons — `repositoryNotFound`, `syncConflict`, `syncFailed`, `failedToWrite`, or `deniedPath` (e.g. writing under `.files/`); see `references/response-shapes.md`.

```bash
cargo-ai context runtime write \
  --path persona/vp-sales-mid-market.md \
  --content "$(cat /.md` with `title` + `description` and the body sections filled in.
3. Add cross-refs (`domain/slug`) where useful — keep them bidirectional when it makes sense.
4. Rebuild the knowledge graph to verify the new entry and its links:
   ```bash
   cargo-ai context graph get
   ```

For full per-domain templates and worked examples, see `references/conventions.md` and `references/examples/authoring.md`.

### Workflow: bootstrap and refresh

To stand up a new workspace's context repo from scratch, or to refresh an existing one on a cadence, follow the two-phase lifecycle in `references/examples/lifecycle.md`:

1. **Bootstrap (one-time):** seed `global/`, `persona/`, `client/`, `proof/`, `objection/`, `signal/` from public sources, then open a fresh agent session against the seeded repo. For the prescriptive, automatable version (domain in → files out, idempotent, with credit budget), use `references/examples/bootstrap-from-domain.md`.
2. **Refresh (every 2–4 weeks):** pull the last ~3 months of sales-call transcripts → analyze one at a time, human-in-the-loop → apply a repetition threshold before promoting any claim to context → validate by generating sequence permutations → diff the graph before/after and retire stale entries.

The repetition threshold (how many calls a claim must appear in before it lands in context) is documented in `references/conventions.md`.

## Knowledge graph

`context graph get` builds (or loads from cache) the knowledge graph over every markdown/MDX file in the context repo. Use it to:

- Audit cross-references between domains (e.g. find personas that link to plays with no proof attached).
- Discover what already exists before writing a new entry (avoid duplicates).
- Power downstream agents that need the typed structure of the workspace's context.

```bash
cargo-ai context graph get
```

The response includes the parsed frontmatter and outbound `domain/slug` references for each node — pipe it through `jq` to slice it. See `references/examples/graph-queries.md` for ready-to-run queries.

## Help

Every command supports `--help`:

```bash
cargo-ai context --help
cargo-ai context runtime browse --help
cargo-ai context runtime read --help
cargo-ai context runtime write --help
cargo-ai context runtime edit --help
cargo-ai context runtime execute --help
cargo-ai context graph get --help
```

## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [getcargohq](https://github.com/getcargohq)
- **Source:** [getcargohq/cargo-skills](https://github.com/getcargohq/cargo-skills)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://getcargo.ai

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-getcargohq-cargo-skills-cargo-context
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/getcargohq
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