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description: "The context group map: request-context plugins that add durable, model-visible context without defining tools, for users and maintainers navigating the group."
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# context/ — Request-context plugins

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## Summary

The context group provides plugins that add model-visible context to each request without defining any tool: workspace instruction files become guidance, `@file` mentions offer path completion, other sessions can be referenced as bounded snapshots, and the model can see the current time and the agent's tmux location. All of them are opt-in except `agent-instructions`, which ships enabled in the default `dsh-agent-spine-demo` bundle and can be disabled through bundle config. Context is durable: injected instructions and references enter session history as user-role messages, so they persist, replay, and compact like other conversation content. This page maps the group; each package README owns the per-package contract.

## Table of Contents

- [Packages](#packages)
- [Related documentation](#related-documentation)
- [Dev Note](#dev-note)

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## Packages

| Package | Role | ctx key |
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| [`agent-instructions/`](agent-instructions/README.md) | Loads `AGENTS.md`/`CLAUDE.md` workspace instructions into context and refreshes them after file edits | — |
| [`session-reference/`](session-reference/README.md) | References other sessions: mention one and its bounded read-only snapshot becomes context | `ctx.sessionReferenceResolver` |
| [`file-reference/`](file-reference/README.md) | `@file` mention discovery and the shared mention grammar for host-backed UIs | `ctx.fileReferences` |
| [`file-reference-local/`](file-reference-local/README.md) | Local-workspace completion provider for `@file` mentions | — |
| [`time-context/`](time-context/README.md) | Current time, browser zone, and elapsed time per step | — |
| [`tmux-context/`](tmux-context/README.md) | The agent's tmux session, window, and pane location | — |

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## Related documentation

- [Session-reference subsystem](../../docs/subsystems/session-reference.md) — canonical mention URIs, snapshot semantics, and the stable error taxonomy.
- [Workspace-context decision record](../../.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-24-workspace-context.md) — why instruction context is per-agent/per-session and durably logged.
- [Generated configuration catalog](../../docs/config-catalog.md) — every config field the group's packages accept.

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## Dev Note

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