csm-checkpoint

csm-checkpoint is a command for Claude Code from NovasPlace/CSM. It costs 12 tokens per session (155 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project command for creating and inspecting checkpoints, which are saved descriptions of work that may be costly to recreate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Listing recent checkpoints, creating one with a label, or inspecting a checkpoint the user names.
Why use it?
It helps preserve important project state before a context change or interruption, so work can be resumed more easily.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the cross-session-memory plugin — 2 skills, 12 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Listing recent checkpoints, creating one with a label, or inspecting a checkpoint the user names.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/novasplace/csm/csm-checkpoint
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NovasPlace/CSM

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cross-session-memory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 12 commands, 3 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 155 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 $0.00012 $0.00155
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00077
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00015

Measured 8d ago against content hash 60ec168350a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

csm-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 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.

plugins/cross-session-memory/commands/csm-checkpoint.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

Manage CSM checkpoints: $ARGUMENTS

  1. Resolve projectRoot to the current workspace root.
  2. If the argument is "list" (or empty), call list_checkpoints and summarize recent checkpoints.
  3. Otherwise call create_checkpoint capturing the current state with the given label — only when that state would be expensive to reconstruct.
  4. Use expand_checkpoint_ref to inspect a specific checkpoint the user names.
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 · 13 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 60ec168350a7

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csm-checkpoint is a command published in the GitHub repository NovasPlace/CSM (42 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 155 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.