save-session

save-session is a command for Claude Code from loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes. It costs 28 tokens per session (2,203 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that saves the current agent session to a dated file for later continuation. The saved record includes completed work, errors, decisions, and remaining tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before closing a complex session, before starting a fresh session, or when handing work to another session or agent.
Why use it?
It preserves working context when a session ends or approaches its context limit.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the awesome-claude-notes plugin — 106 skills, 61 commands, 28 agents shipped together

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/loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes/save-session
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install awesome-claude-notes, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 106 skills, 61 commands, 28 agents.

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Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,203 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 5.1 $0.00028 $0.02203
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01102
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00441
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00220

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3fabdcc3424f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

save-session 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

commands/save-session.md · 283 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 283 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Save Session Command

Capture everything that happened in this session — what was built, what worked, what failed, what's left — and write it to a dated file so the next session can pick up exactly where this one left off.

When to Use

  • End of a work session before closing Claude Code
  • Before hitting context limits (run this first, then start a fresh session)
  • After solving a complex problem you want to remember
  • Any time you need to hand off context to a future session

Process

Step 1: Gather context

Before writing the file, collect:

  • Read all files modified during this session (use git diff or recall from conversation)
  • Review what was discussed, attempted, and decided
  • Note any errors encountered and how they were resolved (or not)
  • Check current test/build status if relevant

Step 2: Create the sessions folder if it doesn't exist

Create the canonical sessions folder in the user's Claude home directory:

mkdir -p ~/.claude/sessions

Step 3: Write the session file

Create ~/.claude/sessions/YYYY-MM-DD-<short-id>-session.tmp, using today's actual date and a short-id that satisfies the rules enforced by SESSION_FILENAME_REGEX in session-manager.js:

  • Allowed characters: lowercase a-z, digits 0-9, hyphens -
  • Minimum length: 8 characters
  • No uppercase letters, no underscores, no spaces

Valid examples: abc123de, a1b2c3d4, frontend-worktree-1 Invalid examples: ABC123de (uppercase), short (under 8 chars), test_id1 (underscore)

Full valid filename example: 2024-01-15-abc123de-session.tmp

The legacy filename YYYY-MM-DD-session.tmp is still valid, but new session files should prefer the short-id form to avoid same-day collisions.

Step 4: Populate the file with all sections below

Write every section honestly. Do not skip sections — write "Nothing yet" or "N/A" if a section genuinely has no content. An incomplete file is worse than an honest empty section.

Step 5: Show the file to the user

Read the full file on GitHub · 283 lines

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 · 283 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 3fabdcc3424f

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save-session is a command published in the GitHub repository loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes (270 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,203 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 2026-09-03.