lavra-checkpoint

lavra-checkpoint is a command for Claude Code from roberto-mello/lavra. It costs 18 tokens per session (1,149 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for saving the work and knowledge from a coding session into Lavra's project records. It uses Beads issues, comments, and synchronized state to track progress.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after making changes or decisions to review the session, create or update Beads issues, close finished work, and record lessons learned.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that completed work, open tasks, or useful discoveries disappear when the session ends. It also checks existing issues to avoid filing duplicates.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the lavra plugin — 23 skills, 18 commands, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it after making changes or decisions to review the session, create or update Beads issues, close finished work, and record lessons learned.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/roberto-mello/lavra/lavra-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/roberto-mello/lavra

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lavra, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 18 commands, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,149 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 $0.00018 $0.01149
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00575
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00115

Measured 7d ago against content hash f05b6b4cf114, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lavra-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 7d 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/lavra/commands/lavra-checkpoint.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<project_root>

All .lavra/ paths are relative to the project root. If you cd into a subdirectory during work, resolve the project root first:

PROJECT_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || echo "$PWD")

Then prefix all .lavra/ paths with "$PROJECT_ROOT/" when invoking them via Bash.

</project_root>

Step 1: Review Session Work

Scan the conversation history for:

  • Code changes made: git diff and git diff --cached
  • Bugs fixed, features added, refactors performed
  • Technical decisions made
  • Insights discovered

Step 2: File Beads Issues

For each distinct unit of work done during this session that doesn't already have a bead:

bd create --title="<descriptive title>" --type=<task|bug|feature> --priority=2

If work is complete, close it immediately:

bd close <id>

If work is in progress, mark it:

bd update <id> --status=in_progress

Check existing issues first to avoid duplicates:

bd list --status=open
bd list --status=in_progress

Step 3: Add Knowledge Comments

For each filed or existing bead that was worked on, add at least one knowledge comment:

bd comments add <id> "LEARNED: <key technical insight>"
bd comments add <id> "DECISION: <what was chosen and why>"
bd comments add <id> "FACT: <constraint, gotcha, or environment detail>"
bd comments add <id> "PATTERN: <recurring convention or idiom>"
bd comments add <id> "INVESTIGATION: <root cause analysis>"

These will be auto-captured by the memory-capture hook.

Step 4: Commit Changes

If there are uncommitted changes:

  1. Check status: git status
  2. Stage only session-changed files (NOT git add -A)
  3. Commit with descriptive message

Step 5: Write Session State

Write .lavra/memory/session-state.md to preserve position awareness across context compaction:

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 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. 7d ago First seen · 176 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A f05b6b4cf114

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lavra-checkpoint is a command published in the GitHub repository roberto-mello/lavra (50 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,149 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.