cast-pickup

cast-pickup is a skill for Claude Code from codecast-sh/codecast. It costs 71 tokens per session (419 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A resume-work routine that rebuilds context from the current task or plan, saved state, recent team activity, repository history, and running terminal sessions. It then identifies the work and next actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting, resuming, or recovering a session to inspect shared context, bind to existing work, and choose the next three actions.
Why use it?
A new or resumed coding session may not know what happened earlier, and relying on conversation memory can cause duplicate work or changes to someone else's files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when starting, resuming, or recovering a session to inspect shared context, bind to existing work, and choose the next three actions.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 419 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 $0.00071 $0.00419
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00168
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00042

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2d52de61a84e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cast-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 1mo 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.

packages/cli/skills/cast-pickup/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Reground from shared state, not from memory of an earlier conversation. Everything below was captured when this skill was invoked.

Bound work

!cast task context --current 2>/dev/null; cast plan context --current 2>/dev/null

Pinned state

!cast state 2>/dev/null || echo "no pinned state"

This project, last two days

!cast feed -s 2d -n 8 2>/dev/null

Repository

!git status -sb 2>/dev/null; git log --oneline -8 2>/dev/null; git stash list 2>/dev/null

Live panes

!tmux list-sessions 2>/dev/null || echo "no tmux sessions"

Then

Name the work in one sentence. If the argument names a task or plan, bind to it (cast task start <id> or cast plan bind <id>). If nothing is bound, search before creating: cast task ls -q "<topic>", cast task ready -q "<topic>", cast plan ls -q "<topic>"; claim what exists, create only what does not. When a handoff doc is referenced, open it with cast doc show.

A handoff that records test commands and their results is evidence: trust it and do not rerun those commands. Uncommitted changes in the tree may belong to other sessions; read git diff before assuming they are yours.

Finish with the next three actions in order, then start the first.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 38 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 2d52de61a84e

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cast-pickup is a skill published in the GitHub repository codecast-sh/codecast (40 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 419 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-15.