pickup

pickup is a skill for Claude Code from anthonysuherli/br8n. It costs 74 tokens per session (964 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A resume tool for returning to saved work in a Git repository, either on the current branch or in another captured repository and branch.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to recover the next step in a project, ask where you left off, or switch back to work saved in another repository.
Why use it?
It removes the need to remember what you were doing or manually reconstruct context after stopping work.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the br8n plugin — 11 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to recover the next step in a project, ask where you left off, or switch back to work saved in another repository.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthonysuherli/br8n/pickup
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 anthonysuherli/br8n --skill pickup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthonysuherli/br8n

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install br8n, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for pickup

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 964 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 $0.00074 $0.00964
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00482
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00193
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00096

Measured 7d ago against content hash 398be354e6b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pickup 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.

skills/pickup/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

br8n — Pickup

Pick up where you left off. Two modes from one verb:

  • here — replay the 30-second resume card for the current repo+branch (the default fast path; context recovery in seconds rather than by hand).
  • selector — list every repo+branch you've captured to, most-recent first, and resume any one of them. The cross-repo way back in.

Step 0 — Branch on the argument

Resolve project = git repo basename, kb = git branch (see ../_shared/preamble-first.md).

  • Bare /br8n:pickup inside a git repo → here mode (Step 1).
  • /br8n:pickup list or /br8n:pickup pick, or not in a git reposelector mode (Step 2).
  • /br8n:pickup <name> → call mcp__plugin_br8n_br8n__br8n_projects(), substring-match <name> against project/kb. One match → resume it (Step 1 with that target). Multiple → show the filtered selector (Step 2).

Step 1 — Here mode (resume card)

Call mcp__plugin_br8n_br8n__br8n_resume(project, kb, query) with query = whatever the user is reorienting toward (omit for the synopsis-only spine).

Lead with the next_action returned by br8n_resume — the card must open with a single concrete step, not a menu:

Do this now: <next_action> You were: <latest hypothesis>

If next_action is null (legacy captures), derive a ~two-minute step yourself from the hypothesis + git_diff_stat (e.g. "open <cursor_file>:<line> and re-read the failing branch") and lead with that instead. Never open with a list of options — one pre-selected action first, supporting context after.

Then the supporting context, tersely:

  • Branch / filescursor_file:cursor_line, open files from the snapshot.
  • In flightgit_diff_stat, terminal tail if present.
  • Synopsis — the <N> standing topics, titles only.

Route on coverage:

  • rich / sparse → you have a card; lead with the next_action (see Step 1).
  • gap → no captured context for this branch. Don't dead-end — fall through to selector mode so the user can pick a repo+branch they have captured (or, if the selector is also empty, offer /br8n:capture to start tracking or /br8n:explore <topic> to seed from the web).

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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 · 75 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 398be354e6b6

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pickup is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthonysuherli/br8n (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 964 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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