Privacy + injection resistance

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Context Prep MCP — noisy context reduction

Type: remote HTTP (172.245.72.102:3394) + SSH-wrapped stdio from Greg clients · Cost: $0 model cost in local/log/text modes · LLM: none in log/text mode; optional scraper-core for URL fetching SSOT docs:

• context-prep-mcp (see mcp-token-savers)/README.md — full tool spec
• the context-prep plan/runbook — plan/runbook

When to use

When NOT to use

• Short prompt or normal local file read → skip context-prep
• Final architecture/product/security judgment → frontier reasoning directly
• SERP, structured extraction, crawl, /interact, /deep-research → call scraper-stack directly (context-prep is only the compaction layer AFTER those tools produce noisy text)
• Hot synchronous path where extra network hop is too slow → skip, use raw input

Tools

prep_logs

Terminal / CI / build / test / runtime output.

{
  "content": "... 300 lines of CI output ...",
  "format": "auto",
  "preserve_exact": false
}

Returns: compact summary, error clusters, unique signal lines, savings_pct, confidence.uncertainty.

prep_url

One concrete public URL the agent needs to read, compare, or extract from.

{
  "url": "https://docs.anthropic.com/en/api/getting-started",
  "parser_stack": "auto",
  "extract_mode": "markdown",
  "preserve_exact": false
}

parser_stack values:

• auto (default): local HTTP/Cheerio first; scraper-core fallback on weak extraction, JS/challenge pages, non-HTML
• local: use for our CDN, GitHub raw, public RSS, simple the API URLs
• scraper_core: use for hostile/JS-heavy pages or when page-body reading is the task

prep_text

Long pasted specs, handoffs, meeting notes, transcripts, chat history.

{
  "content": "... 8k chars of pasted spec ...",
  "mode": "spec",
  "preserve_exact": false
}

mode values: auto · spec · notes · transcript · handoff

get_artifact

Fetch raw/cleaned content when exact wording matters or confidence is low.

{
  "artifact_id": "ctx_abc123",
  "format": "markdown"
}

Quality guardrail

Context-prep compacts noisy input — it does NOT replace final reasoning. Apply these checks:

• If confidence.uncertainty > 0.03 → fetch artifact, read raw content, spend extra tokens
• If autopilot.requires_clarification = true → show compact output as list, ask ONE targeted question
• If warnings are present → inspect the warning before using compact output for code changes
• If legal/pricing/security-sensitive wording → use preserve_exact: true or read get_artifact raw output

ContentOS integration

Do NOT add context-prep to every ContentOS frontier call. Use it only for noisy inputs:

• Source URLs / scraped HTML before generation or fact-check
• Long source notes / campaign briefs before variant generation
• Long generation / QA logs before debugging

Skip for: short editorial prompts, hot synchronous paths (unless input is large enough to justify the network hop). For inputs 5k-30k chars, synchronous prep is acceptable. Above that, prefer async prep + stored artifact.

After call — mandatory report line

Context-prep: mode=<logs|url|text>, savings=<pct>, parser=<local|scraper_core|n/a>

Cost comparison

SSOT cross-references

• context-prep-mcp (see mcp-token-savers)/README.md — full API spec
• the context-prep plan/runbook — deploy/ops runbook
• your catalog config § context-prep-mcp — Pantheon catalog entry
• your monitoring config § your monitoring target — uptime monitoring
• the project rule (see your repo rules) — trigger policy (always applied)
• claude/SKILL_TRIGGER_LEXICON.md §13d — RU/EN trigger phrases