renew

renew is a command for Claude Code from AaronCarney/pass-the-baton. It costs 22 tokens per session (301 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session command that saves the current progress checkpoint and ends the session so another session can continue the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want to hand work to a new agent session. It writes the progress file, arms an immediate checkpoint, and clears the current session.
Why use it?
It creates a handoff point when the current session should stop, reducing the risk of losing unfinished work or context.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the pass-the-baton plugin — 2 skills, 3 commands, 9 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when you want to hand work to a new agent session. It writes the progress file, arms an immediate checkpoint, and clears the current session.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add AaronCarney/pass-the-baton
Claude Code
/plugin install pass-the-baton

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pass-the-baton, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 3 commands, 9 hooks.

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Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 301 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00022 $0.00301
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 8d ago against content hash ebe966278fc3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

renew scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/renew.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

Arm an immediate checkpoint for this session:

!bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/tools/baton-checkpoint-now.sh"

If the line above did not print a "checkpoint armed" confirmation, either the plugin root did not resolve OR CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID was not exported into the inline step - in that case run the arm script yourself now with the Bash tool, where CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID is present: it lives at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/tools/baton-checkpoint-now.sh (the pass-the-baton plugin install directory). Then write the checkpoint progress file for this session, following the standard checkpoint protocol the hook injects on your next tool action. Prepare the handoff first; do not continue unrelated work.

Invoking this command is the decision to hand off. Write the progress file, then do what /clear does: end this session so a new one starts. Do not ask the user whether they would rather keep working - they answered that by running the command. See docs/context-baton.md § Checkpoint Modes, case 1B.

Known gap until the mode fix lands: the post-write hook still emits a "Keep working in this session, or clear now?" prompt on this path. That prompt is the superseded trigger-based split, not the intended behavior.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 15 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A ebe966278fc3

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renew is a command published in the GitHub repository AaronCarney/pass-the-baton (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 301 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.