# skill: /context-load

**Location:** `custom-claude-skills/skills/context-load/SKILL.md`
**Symlinked to:** `~/.claude/skills/context-load`

## Purpose

Reloads project context into the conversation after `/clear` or when context has been lost mid-session. Equivalent to the context that `start-claude` injects at session start via `--append-system-prompt`.

## Usage

```
/context-load
```

Run from any project directory. The skill will gather context from cwd upward, just like the `context-load` script does at launch.

## How it works

- Uses `!`context-load`` to run the `scripts/context-load` script at skill load time
- The script output (CLAUDE.md files, trees, CONTEXT.md, MEMORY.md, BESTPRACTICES.md, git status) is injected directly into the skill prompt
- Claude reads and internalizes the output, then confirms what it loaded

## Gotchas

- Depends on `context-load` being on `$PATH` (symlinked to `~/sbin/context-load`)
- Output size scales with the number of projects in the directory hierarchy — deep nesting or large index files may use significant tokens
- Only loads index files, not topic files from `memory/` or `context/` — Claude must use Read tool for those if needed