checkpoint

checkpoint is a command for Claude Code from RasputinKaiser/Self-Improvement-Plugin. It costs 11 tokens per session (193 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that saves a snapshot of the agent's working setup and creates a continuity note describing the current task and changed files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a batch of risky changes, to record what was done, and to restore the latest saved setup if something goes wrong.
Why use it?
It gives you a recovery point before risky or self-changing edits and helps preserve context after a failed edit or shortened session.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the harness-self-improvement plugin — 11 skills, 12 commands, 5 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it before a batch of risky changes, to record what was done, and to restore the latest saved setup if something goes wrong.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/rasputinkaiser/self-improvement-plugin/checkpoint
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RasputinKaiser/Self-Improvement-Plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install harness-self-improvement, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 12 commands, 5 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 193 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 $0.00011 $0.00193
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00077
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00019

Measured 28d ago against content hash 8b52e9786c32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 28d 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/checkpoint.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Follow references/command-protocol.md.

Run python3 <plugin-root>/scripts/snapshot_harness.py --reason "before: <scope>". Retain the exact snapshot ID, paths covered, workspace/ref, dirty state, and a continuity packet through the documented compact_continuity.py JSON-stdin hook. A snapshot only covers its declared files, not the entire machine.

Treat recovery as a transaction: record the before-state identity and intended writes; preserve user changes made after the snapshot. Inspect python3 <plugin-root>/scripts/restore_harness.py <snapshot-id> --dry-run first. Use an explicit snapshot ID rather than relying on a moving latest pointer. Restoration requires the user's authorized exact scope; the dry-run is not a restoration receipt. Prefer the adaptation controller's journaled rollback for an explicitly activated candidate.

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. 28d ago Changed · +2 lines · -4 tokens per session 8b52e9786c32
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 16 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A ca63f765f9fb

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checkpoint is a command published in the GitHub repository RasputinKaiser/Self-Improvement-Plugin (8 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 193 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.