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title: "What Context Needed - Air Market"
description: "Sometimes an answer is poor simply because the assistant never saw the relevant files. This turns it around: ask what it needs to look at first, then supply that. Reach for it when your question depe…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/what-context-needed"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / What Context Needed

Skill by [GitHub](/@github)

# What Context Needed

Find out what it needs to read before it answers you

## What this does

Sometimes an answer is poor simply because the assistant never saw the relevant files. This turns it around: ask what it needs to look at first, then supply that. Reach for it when your question depends on parts of the codebase you have not shown.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Ask what files are needed to answer my question
- Gather the right context before asking

## Information

**What Context Needed at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [GitHub](/@github) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 881 bytes |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [github/awesome-copilot](https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/90921cc46f4e452ea379e70884d60ec25263f16a/skills/what-context-needed) |
| GitHub stars | 38,187 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 8,945, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of What Context Needed and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What What Context Needed's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 90921cc46f4e452ea379e70884d60ec25263f16a |
| Content hash | 746be92869b908289abc6f6801cc5f2b7aefa82ecb565b5614a1a136f2764be3 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/blob/90921cc46f4e452ea379e70884d60ec25263f16a/skills/what-context-needed/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for What Context Needed](/security/what-context-needed)

## About What Context Needed

Asks Copilot what files it needs to see before it answers a question.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is What Context Needed safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of What Context Needed and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 90921cc46f4e, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/what-context-needed.

### How do I install What Context Needed?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/what-context-needed on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/90921cc46f4e452ea379e70884d60ec25263f16a/skills/what-context-needed. Install from that link, not the branch.

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- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/what-context-needed>