- The local "Where you are now" savings bar now reflects the whole live conversation window — the main session plus the sub-agent and sandbox sessions it spawns — rather than a single session id.
- The kept-out ratio is reported to one decimal, so a genuine 99.9% window is no longer rounded up to a misleading 100%.
- Retrieval access cost (bytesretrieved) for ctxsearch / ctxfetchandindex is now bridged from the MCP server to the forward pipe, so the platform can derive the with/without ratio. Previously the…
- "With context-mode" counts retrieval-tool returns only, not sandbox compute output, so the ratio is honest.
- A Task sub-agent's cumulative usage is no longer priced as a single turn, preventing inflated per-event cost from poisoning FinOps aggregates.
Context Mode by Mert Köseoğlu
Context window optimization for AI coding agents. Sandboxes tool output (98% reduction), persists session memory, and enforces routing across 17 platforms via MCP + hooks.
Agent tooling for cost, context and memory
Proprietary
Recently added on Oct 10, 2026. The description, category and pricing were filled in from public metadata and have not been checked by an editor yet.
Price
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Popularity
#25 in Agent tooling
Gid Score 37 / 100 · #138 of 378 overall
Trend
Growing fast
usage up 46.8% over 30 days
Development
Quiet lately
latest 1.0.169, 3mo ago
Community
26K GitHub stars
24.4K package downloads a week
What Context Mode does
Key facts
| Maker | Mert Köseoğlu |
|---|---|
| First released | February 2026 |
| License | — |
| Main language | TypeScript |
| Open issues and PRs | 339 |
Pricing
We have not verified pricing for Context Mode yet.
Quick answers
- Free to start?Unknown
- Open source?No
- Closest alternativeOpenShell · all alternatives
Get started with Context Mode
| npm | npm install -g context-mode |
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OpenShellNVIDIA Corporation |
76 | 89.4K | up 76.9% | up 201.3% | — | 15.6K+159/day | 0.1.3yesterday | Free (OSS) | ||
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73 | 23M | up 4.0% | — | — | 60.4K+61/day | 1.104.22d ago | Free (OSS) | ||
| 15 |
NemoClawNVIDIA Corporation |
68 | — | — | — | — | 22.7K+10/day | — | Free (OSS) | ||
| 19 |
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63 | 2.4M | down 14.8% | up 0.1% | — | 190K+354/day | 2.11.03mo ago | Free + $16/mo | ||
| 20 |
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63 | 8.4M | up 2.7% | up 5.5% | — | 35.6K+39/day | 4.55.02d ago | Free (OSS) | ||
| 27 |
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60 | 3.4M | down 9.1% | up 20.5% | — | 14.2K+22/day | 2.53.14d ago | Free + $150/mo | ||
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Context Mode news
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74 agents added to AgentGid
Symphony, OpenShell, Codex Security, NemoClaw, Agent Browser, Opensre, Caveman, Brag, Open Code Review, Understand-Anything, Codegraph, BrowserSkill and 62 more
What changed: recent Context Mode releases
- Context-savings bar accuracy. ctx stats previously rendered "With context-mode: 1 B / 100% kept out" on tool-heavy sessions. The "With context-mode" figure now reflects the real bytes the model…
- With/without ratio for the platform. The plugin now forwards bytesretrieved (the retrieval access cost) alongside bytesavoided, so org-level reporting can derive the full kept-out percentage…
- Cumulative cost no longer mispriced. A Task sub-agent's usage is the total summed across its entire run; pricing it as a single turn produced inflated four-figure per-event costs that poisoned…
- Real per-model pricing catalog (63 curated models across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and other vendors) behind a small no-regex lookup module. Non-Claude models are now priced from their own rates…
- Structured cost event (modelid plus four token counts and costusd), replacing the prior string encoding, so the platform persists typed columns.
- Per-turn capture across the nine adapters that expose usage: claude-code (session transcript, cursor-gated to avoid double counting), pi, omp, opencode, openclaw, gemini-cli, codex, qwen-code, and…
- bytesavoided is now forwarded so the platform can attribute context-saving value.
- @ken-jo — Zed MCP configuration shape correction
- @ousamabenyounes — omp adapter MCP self-registration on plugin load
- Pi: a background diagnostic no longer appears in the editor and blocks typing (#868, reported
- Pi: the foreground session no longer loses its ctx tools after a pause. The idle reaper that bounds abandoned sub-agent helpers was also reaping the active interactive session's helper after three…
- Clearer idle-helper wording. When a sub-agent helper is released, the log line now reads in human units and states that it reconnects automatically, instead of the previous low-level…
- License: Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2)
- Linux: orphaned MCP servers no longer busy-spin at ~100% CPU after the client exits (#862, reported
- Windows: the boot-time fetch-dependency install no longer fails with EPERM (and no longer flashes a console window) every session (#861, reported
- License: Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2)
- ctxexecutefile is now confined to the project boundary (#852, reported
- Casual phrases no longer freeze as a re-injected behavioral directive (#856, reported
- Idle MCP bridge children are now reaped
- Antigravity CLI: one-command plugin install
- License: Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2)
Context Mode popularity and usage data
Context Mode was downloaded 24.4K times from npm in the week ending Oct 8, 2026, down 15.7% on the week before and up 46.8% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 26K stars, 4,261 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.0.169, published Jun 29, 2026. It was mentioned in 1 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
Download the raw daily series: context-mode.csv
Gid Score breakdown
Adoption31
Community59
Attention0
Momentum73
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
Context Mode FAQ
Is Context Mode open source?
No. Context Mode is a proprietary product from Mert Köseoğlu.
How popular is Context Mode?
Context Mode was downloaded 24.4K times from npm in the week ending Oct 8, 2026, down 15.7% on the week before and up 46.8% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 26K stars, 4,261 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.0.169, published Jun 29, 2026.
What is the latest version of Context Mode?
The latest stable release we track is 1.0.169, published on Jun 29, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Context Mode?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are OpenShell, LiteLLM, NemoClaw, Firecrawl.
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Product facts and pricing were checked against: context-mode.com, github.com, npmjs.com.