update-context

Instructions for updating a saved session checkpoint that records work in progress.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when refreshing saved context after a coding session, including the current Git branch and recent commits.
Why use it?
It keeps the latest state and next steps in an existing checkpoint while preserving its goals, decisions, and notes. The input does not specify the add-on's implementation details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/adeotek/claude-code/update-context
Any agent
npx skills add adeotek/claude-code --skill update-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adeotek/claude-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 701 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 $0.00082 $0.00701
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00351
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00070

Measured yesterday against content hash bd4e3a3a1001, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-context 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 yesterday.

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/context-checkpoint/skills/update-context/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update Context

Refresh an existing checkpoint in .memory/<name>.md by merging preserved content with a new summary from the current session. Current State and Next Steps are always replaced; Goal, Decisions Made, and Notes are preserved and extended.

Steps

  1. Extract the filename from the user's prompt. Use the same kebab-case normalization as save-context (e.g., "auth work" → auth-work).

  2. If no name was given, list available contexts and ask the user which to update:

    ls .memory/*.md 2>/dev/null
    

    Present the names without the .md extension and without the .memory/ path prefix.

  3. If the file doesn't exist (.memory/<name>.md not found), tell the user and suggest creating it with save-context first.

  4. Read .memory/<name>.md using the Read tool.

  5. Gather fresh git state by running:

    git branch --show-current 2>/dev/null
    git log --oneline -3 2>/dev/null
    

    If either fails (not a git repo), omit the git line.

  6. Generate the merged update using the section-by-section rules below.

  7. Write the updated content back to .memory/<name>.md. No overwrite prompt is needed — updating is the explicit intent.

  8. Confirm with a brief summary of what changed, e.g., "Updated .memory/auth-work.md — Current State and Next Steps refreshed, 2 new decisions added."

Merge Rules

Saved date and git metadata: Always replace with today's date and fresh git state.

Goal: Preserve the original paragraph. If the current session has clearly pivoted to a different objective, update the paragraph and append a parenthetical note, e.g., (updated YYYY-MM-DD: now focused on Y instead of X).

Current State: Always replace entirely — old state is stale by definition.

Key Files: Merge old and new. Keep entries still relevant to the work; add files created or meaningfully modified in this session; remove entries for files no longer relevant.

Decisions Made: Keep all existing decisions (historical context matters). Append any new non-obvious decisions from this session.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. yesterday First seen · 56 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A bd4e3a3a1001

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository adeotek/claude-code (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 701 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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