checkpoint

checkpoint is a skill for Claude Code from adamwang99/NEUTRON-EVO-OS. It costs 0 tokens per session (766 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-saving tool that writes the agent’s current task, changes, results, blockers, and next step to a file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during long-running tasks or before pausing work. It records a full checkpoint or one focused on a particular area.
Why use it?
It helps an agent continue accurately after its conversation history is shortened or after a person resumes the work later.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event.

Good fit Use it during long-running tasks or before pausing work. It records a full checkpoint or one focused on a particular area.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adamwang99/neutron-evo-os/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.

Any agent
npx skills add adamwang99/NEUTRON-EVO-OS --skill checkpoint
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adamwang99/NEUTRON-EVO-OS

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 766 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 $0.00000 $0.00766
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00383
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00077

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2fc76ac88e04, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (logic/__init__.py, validation/__init__.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/core/checkpoint/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Checkpoint — Session State Persistence

NEUTRON EVO OS v4.1.0 | CI tracking: skill router Context: Long-running agent sessions → context compression survival

Purpose

Dump current session state to disk so that:

  1. Compaction survives: After /compact, agent reads checkpoint → knows "I was doing X"
  2. Resume accurate: Human or AI resuming knows exact context, blockers, next step
  3. Dream Cycle feeds: Checkpoint becomes source for distillation

Usage

/checkpoint [optional focus]

Examples:

/checkpoint                    → full state dump
/checkpoint trading module     → focus on trading module
/compact Continue the current task

Checkpoint Format

Written to memory/{date}.md in structured YAML-frontmatter style:

# Checkpoint — {timestamp}

> NEUTRON EVO OS v4.0.0 | Session: checkpoint

## State
- **Status**: in_progress | paused | blocked | complete
- **Task**: {what was being worked on}
- **Focus**: {optional focus area from agent}
- **Confidence**: {high|medium|low}

## Current Work
- Files modified: [list]
- Files created: [list]
- Last action: {description}
- Output: {summary of result}

## Blockers
- [ ] {blocker 1}
- [ ] {blocker 2}

## Next Steps (priority order)
1. {step 1}
2. {step 2}
3. {step 3}

## Decisions Made
- {decision 1} → reason
- {decision 2} → reason

## Notes
{Other relevant context}

Trigger Points (when to call /checkpoint)

Situation Trigger
Before /compact REQUIRED
Before /rewind REQUIRED
Every ~30 min in long sessions RECOMMENDED
Before ending session REQUIRED
When blocked for > 5 min REQUIRED
When task completes RECOMMENDED

Checkpoint Chain

Agent starts task
    ↓
Every N minutes: /checkpoint
    ↓
Context approaches 80%: /compact + /checkpoint
    ↓
After compaction: reads checkpoint → restores context
    ↓
Task continues with full awareness

Auto-Checkpoint via Hook

The PreToolUse hook monitors for compaction commands and triggers auto-checkpoint. See engine/checkpoint_cli.py for the CLI wrapper.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 113 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2fc76ac88e04

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checkpoint is a skill published in the GitHub repository adamwang99/NEUTRON-EVO-OS (20 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 766 tokens. 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.

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