checkpoint

A command that saves the current coding session in a todo file. The saved record includes the task, progress, decisions, changed files, and next step.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before stopping work so a later session can pick up the task from the recorded checkpoint.
Why use it?
It prevents important context from being lost when work continues in another session.

Command for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap/checkpoint
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 318 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00014 $0.00318
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00159
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00032

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3746b778be93, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

checkpoint 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 2d 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.

.claude/commands/checkpoint.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Save session checkpoint: $ARGUMENTS

Pre-loaded context

Branch: !git branch --show-current Uncommitted: !git status --short 2>/dev/null | head -20 Current todo: !head -30 claude/tasks/todo.md 2>/dev/null || echo "No active todo"

Instructions

Write a structured checkpoint to claude/tasks/todo.md:

## [Task Title] — Checkpoint [date]

**Branch:** `<branch-name>`
**Status:** 🔄 IN PROGRESS

### Session Context
- **Loaded docs:** [list claude/*.md files read this session]
- **Key decisions:** [any architectural/design decisions made]
- **User corrections:** [any corrections to capture in lessons.md]

### Progress
- [x] Completed step 1
- [x] Completed step 2
- [ ] **NEXT →** Step 3: [exact description of what to do next]
- [ ] Step 4: ...

### Uncommitted Changes
[output of git status --short]

### Notes for Next Session
[free text: gotchas discovered, files to re-read, test commands to run]

Tell the user: "Checkpoint saved. Next session: run /resume to continue."

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. 2d ago First seen · 46 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 3746b778be93

Subscribe to this mod's changes

checkpoint is a command published in the GitHub repository brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 318 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 2026-08-30.