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# How to Create Contexts

## Background

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While not required, creating separate contexts is recommended. Otherwise the default context from your home directory will be used and will be where the snapshots get saved to. Creating a new context can be useful for separating snapshots in different code repositories.
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[Context](/core-concepts/context.md)
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## Creating Contexts

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Creating contexts is only supported with the CLI
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In your terminal, change directories to the one you want to create a new context in. Then run:

```bash
stoobly-agent init
```

This command will create an empty `.stoobly` directory. Next execute the run command with any flags as desired:

```bash
stoobly-agent run
```

Afterwards the `.stoobly` directory will contain an empty local database and other default configuration needed for a new Context. Now if you view requests in either the UI or CLI, you'll notice there is no data.


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