Pattern for progressively refining context retrieval to solve the subagent context problem. Use when a subagent lacks the context it needs and retrieval must be refined across passes.
Install
npx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill iterative-retrievalnpx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill iterative-retrieval -a claude-code -gnpx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill iterative-retrieval -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC.git --path skills/iterative-retrievalgh skill install affaan-m/ECC iterative-retrievalgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC /tmp/affaan-m__ECC
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/affaan-m__ECC/skills/iterative-retrieval ~/.claude/skills/iterative-retrieval # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/affaan-m__ECC/skills/iterative-retrieval ~/.agents/skills/iterative-retrieval # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode