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.From its SKILL.md
npx -y skills add ethanaubuchon/dossier-tradecraft --skill load-contextAssembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.
2 things to look at
- 3 stars3 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.
- runs commandsInstructs the agent to run 3 commands, including `mcp__dossier-mcp__get_vault_context` and 2 more.
SKILL.md
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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
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Call
mcp__dossier-mcp__get_vault_context. This loadsprofile.mdsilently — do not summarize or recite it. -
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? -
If the user has supplied a research topic with a clear project anchor (e.g. "relocation healthcare costs" →
projects/relocation), callmcp__dossier-mcp__list_notes(path: "projects/<slug>")to pre-warm topic context. Skip if no anchor is obvious —vault-researcherwill 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 statussnapshot for the working dir
What ships with it
Read from the repository
Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.