checkpoint

A mid-session checkpoint workflow that saves current work in a descriptive Git commit and writes a short handoff note. Git is a version-control system that records changes to a codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Saving progress during development, committing selected relevant files, documenting the current state, and preparing a session for continuation.
Why use it?
It preserves a known-good point before a risky refactor, task switch, or pause, so work can be resumed with context if something goes wrong.

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/codewithmukesh/dotnet-claude-kit/checkpoint
Any agent
npx skills add codewithmukesh/dotnet-claude-kit --skill checkpoint
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codewithmukesh/dotnet-claude-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 812 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 $0.00096 $0.00812
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00406
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00081

Measured 3d ago against content hash c0d87efe95d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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/checkpoint/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/checkpoint

What

A quick mid-session save that banks the known-good state in two moves:

  1. Descriptive git commit — stage relevant changes and commit with a message that summarizes the work.
  2. Brief handoff note — write .claude/handoff.md so a resumed session (or you, after a botched refactor) knows exactly where things stand.

Checkpoint is the mid-session save; /wrap-up is the end-of-session ritual. Checkpoint commits and jots a note, then keeps working. Wrap-up does the full handoff plus learning extraction into MEMORY.md.

When

  • Before a risky refactor or destructive change — checkpoint the known-good state
  • When switching to a different task or feature mid-session
  • After completing a logical unit of work — bank it
  • User says "checkpoint", "save progress", "save state", "pause here"
  • If the session is actually ending, use /wrap-up for the full ritual

How

  1. Assess stategit status and git diff to see staged and unstaged changes.
  2. Stage changes — Stage specific files; never git add -A. Exclude generated files, build artifacts, and secrets (.env, credentials).
  3. Commit — Descriptive message following the repo's commit style (conventional prefixes: feat:, fix:, refactor:). New commit, never amend. If there is nothing to commit, skip to the handoff.
  4. Write handoff note.claude/handoff.md, same format as /wrap-up but abbreviated: Completed, Pending (with specific next steps), Learned (only if something non-obvious surfaced), and Context (branch + commit hash). One file, always overwritten.
  5. Confirm — Report the commit hash and the handoff summary, then resume work.

Safety Rules

  • Never push, force-push, or touch remote branches
  • Never commit secrets
  • Never amend — a checkpoint is a new commit you can return to
  • No changes to commit? Update the handoff only

Example

User: /checkpoint — about to try the EF Core split-query refactor

Claude: 3 files modified, 1 new.

  Commit a1b2c3d: "feat: add CreateOrder validation with FluentValidation"
  - src/Orders/Features/CreateOrder.cs
  - src/Orders/Features/CreateOrderValidator.cs (new)
  - tests/Orders.Tests/Features/CreateOrderTests.cs

  Handoff updated (.claude/handoff.md):
  ## Completed
  - [x] CreateOrder validation + 3 test scenarios
  ## Pending
  - [ ] Split-query refactor in GetOrderDetails (about to attempt)
  ## Context
  - Branch: feature/order-validation | Checkpoint: a1b2c3d

  Checkpoint saved — safe to proceed with the risky refactor.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. 3d ago First seen · 87 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A c0d87efe95d6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

checkpoint is a skill published in the GitHub repository codewithmukesh/dotnet-claude-kit (689 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 812 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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