Umbraco Global Context

This handles global context implementation in Umbraco's backoffice, which is basically shared state that lives across your entire admin session. You'd reach for this when you need services or data accessible everywhere, like coordinating between extensions or managing centralized state. The skill pulls fresh docs from Umbraco's official site and generates the full setup: context tokens, implementation classes extending UmbContextBase, and the manifest registration. One thing worth noting is that even Umbraco uses these sparingly. The workflow pushes you to consider whether a workspace context or something more scoped would work first, which is the right instinct since global state can get messy fast.

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$ npx -y skills add umbraco/umbraco-cms-backoffice-skills --skill umbraco-global-context --agent claude-code

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Umbraco Global Context

What is it?

Global contexts create a shared, type-safe layer of data and functions accessible throughout the backoffice. Unlike scoped contexts (like Workspace Contexts), global contexts persist for the entire backoffice session. Use them for sharing state between extensions, managing centralized services, or coordinating communication. Note: Prefer more specific context types when possible - Umbraco uses global contexts sparingly.