context7
context7 is an agent skill published by intellectronica, listed under writing & docs. It lives in the intellectronica/agent-skills repository, which has 298 GitHub stars and is licensed under CC0-1.0; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Retrieve up-to-date documentation for software libraries, frameworks, and components via the Context7 API. Use this to find documentation, code examples, and verify library function usage.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads intellectronica/agent-skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add intellectronica/agent-skills
Maintenance
Retrieve up-to-date documentation for software libraries, frameworks, and components via the Context7 API. This skill should be used when looking up documentation for any programming library or framework, finding code examples for specific APIs or features, verifying correct usage of library functions, or obtaining current information about library APIs that may have changed since training.
context7 compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| context7 (this page) | intellectronica | Retrieve up-to-date documentation for software libraries, frameworks, and components via the Context7 API. Th… | 298 | 2026-04-25 |
| academy-guide | anthropic | Stop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude produc… | 183,845 | 2026-10-09 |
| doc-coauthoring | anthropic | Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write docume… | 183,845 | 2026-10-09 |
| documentation-and-adrs | addyosmani | Records decisions and documentation. Use when you need to document an architecture decision (ADR) or the reas… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
| git-workflow-and-versioning | addyosmani | Structures git workflow practices. Use when making any code change. Use when committing, branching, resolving… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
| source-driven-development | addyosmani | Grounds every implementation decision in official documentation. Use when you want to verify an approach agai… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
| developing-genkit-dart | Generates code and provides documentation for the Genkit Dart SDK. Use when the user asks to build AI agents… | 21,580 | 2026-10-25 |
Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about context7
- What does context7 do?
- Retrieve up-to-date documentation for software libraries, frameworks, and components via the Context7 API. Use this to find documentation, code examples, and verify library function usage.
- How do I install context7?
- Run npx skills add intellectronica/agent-skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes context7?
- intellectronica.
- Is context7 maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 298 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-04-25. The repository declares the CC0-1.0 licence.
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