Resume work

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Rebuild working context after a usage limit, a crash, a /clear or a new day, without re-reading the repository. Reconstructs state from GitHub and the last checkpoint in seconds. Use as the first command of any recovery session.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Resume work skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by opendefender/openrisk in .claude/skills/resume/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Your context is empty. Do not explore the repository. State does not live in the conversation — it lives in GitHub and in .claude/CHECKPOINT.md. Read those.

1. Where were we — exactly three commands

cat .claude/CHECKPOINT.md 2>/dev/null | tail -30
gh issue list --label status:in-progress --json number,title,labels,url
git status --short && git branch --show-current

2. Load the one issue

Target issue: ${ARGUMENTS:-the single issue labelled status:in-progress}. If several are in progress, list them and ask me which one. Do not guess.

gh issue view <n> --comments

The last agent comment is your instruction set. Its Next field is your task. Its Done field tells you what NOT to redo. Its Verified field tells you which commands already passed.

3. Confirm the branch, then continue

git switch <the branch from gh issue develop>
git log --oneline -5

4. Report before working — three lines maximum

Resuming #<n> — <title>
Last checkpoint: <date> by <agent> — <the Next field>
Continuing with: <what you will do now>

Then continue with /work <n>.

Rules that make this cheap

  • Never find or ls -R the repository.
  • Never read docs/JOURNAL.md.
  • Never re-read files the last checkpoint already summarized.
  • Never re-run a verification the checkpoint recorded as green, unless you have since changed the code it covered.
  • If the checkpoint is missing or unreadable, say so and read only the issue.

Signals

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resume-opendefender
Source
github.com/opendefender/openrisk