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Long Context Retrieval — Development skill for Claude Code

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Read large files and broad search results progressively instead of blowing up the live context window.

How to install Long Context Retrieval

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/ilearn-lab-evoharness-long-context-retrieval/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ilearn-lab-evoharness-long-context-retrieval && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iLearn-Lab/EvoHarness/HEAD/.claude/skills/long-context-retrieval.md -o ~/.claude/skills/ilearn-lab-evoharness-long-context-retrieval/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Long Context Retrieval does

name: long-context-retrieval description: Read large files and broad search results progressively instead of blowing up the live context window.

Long Context Retrieval

Use this skill when the task needs large-file reading, deep codebase explanation, or long search sessions.

start with workspace_status or list_registry only once, then narrow down
prefer grep before read_file when you do not yet know the exact window
for large files, read the first segment, then request

Alternatives in Development

Obsidian Find — Smart vault search — returns results with context, not just filenames 277 ★
Ccr — CCR (Compressed Context with Retrieval) — recall the full original of context that great_cto compressed/filter 83 ★
Toonify MCP — Context compression plugin for Claude Code 65 ★