A video processing method is provided to include: performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a coded representation of the video, wherein the performing of the conversion includes configuring, based on a characteristic of the current video block of a video, a context model for coding a bin or bypass coding the bin of a bin string corresponding to an index of a secondary transform tool, wherein the index indicates an applicability of the secondary transform tool and/or a kernel information of the secondary transform tool, and wherein the secondary transform tool includes applying, during encoding, a forward secondary transform to an output of a forward primary transform applied to a residual of a video block prior to quantization, or wherein the secondary transform tool includes applying, during decoding, an inverse secondary transform to an output of dequantization to the video block before applying an inverse primary transform.