context-engineering-checklist

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HARD checklist before new skills, MCP tools, hooks/gates, plugins, or multi-agent workflows. Maps Hugging Face Context Course units 1–5 onto ThumbGate. Auto-invoke when creating SKILL.md, PreToolUse hooks, gate patterns, MCP tools, Grok workflows, slash commands, or when user says context engineering, HF context course, GSD, Ralph Loop, or agent context. Slash: /context-engineering-checklist.

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# Context Engineering Checklist (HF course → ThumbGate) Source: [The Context Course](https://huggingface.co/learn/context-course/unit0/introduction) ## Pick the right layer (Clarify) | Need | Layer | Do not | |------|--------|--------| | How-to / policy for agents | **Skill** (Unit 1) | Long chat-only prompts | | External API/tool | **MCP** (Unit 2) | Fake tools in prose | | Multi-step pack / fan-out | **Workflow/plugin** (Unit 3) | One mega-prompt | | Parallel specialists | **Sub-agents** (Unit 4) | Dual-edit without locks | | Irreversible deny | **Hook/gate** (Unit 5) | Skill-only “never do X” | ## Unit 1 — Skills - [ ] `SKILL.md` frontmatter: `name`, trigger-rich `description`, slash - [ ] One failure class per skill - [ ] NEVER / ALWAYS table with zero-ratio rules - [ ] Scripts for mechanical steps; no secrets in body ## Unit 2 — MCP - [ ] Tool names match discovery / allowlist - [ ] Side-effect annotations truthful - [ ] Mutating tools covered by PreToolUse / gate-check ## Unit 3 — Plugins / workflows - [ ] Context → specialists → verify → synthesize - [ ] Smoke + full modes; read-only reviews ## Unit 4 — Sub-agents - [ ] Linear claim or complement (no steal) - [ ] Vault one-writer; scoped prompts ## Unit 5 — Hooks / gates - [ ] Matchable tool surface (not English prose) - [ ] Hard floor if irreversible - [ ] Deny + allow + false-positive tests - [ ] Live probe before “protected” ## Scripts ```bash bash ~/.grok/skills/context-engineering-checklist/scripts/...

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Author: IgorGanapolsky
Repository: IgorGanapolsky/ThumbGate
Created: 5 months ago
Last Updated: today
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT

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