pickup

pickup is a skill for Claude Code from dgilford/ai-science-toolkit. It costs 65 tokens per session (514 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for restoring project context from a handoff file left by an earlier coding-agent session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Resuming work, reviewing recent commits and changes, checking project instructions, and finding unresolved review issues.
Why use it?
It helps a new session understand what was being worked on and checks whether the recorded state still matches the repository.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the ai-science-toolkit plugin — 21 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Resuming work, reviewing recent commits and changes, checking project instructions, and finding unresolved review issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit/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 dgilford/ai-science-toolkit --skill pickup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-science-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 4 agents.

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit/pickup.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit/pickup)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit/pickup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit/pickup.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 514 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00065 $0.00514
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00257
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00051

Measured 8d ago against content hash fae3a3957ba5, 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 8d 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 · 46 lines

What it actually says

Resume this project from the repo-local handoff state.

Current repo state

git status --short 2>/dev/null || echo "(not a git repo)"
git log --oneline -12 2>/dev/null || echo "(no git log)"

Instructions

Check for .ai/HANDOFF.md. Two paths:

If found: Read it, along with CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md if present. Then verify it against current repo state: confirm the branch matches, check that referenced files exist, and flag any commits more recent than the handoff that aren't reflected in it. If .ai/reviews/ exists, note the most recent review report and surface any of its unresolved findings that bear on the next action.

If not found: Tell the user explicitly that no handoff was found before doing anything else. Then reconstruct best-effort from the repo: scan recent git log, read recently modified files, and check for obvious entry points (scripts, notebooks, configs).

Report

State on the first line whether the handoff was loaded: Handoff loaded from .ai/HANDOFF.md or No handoff found — reconstructed from repo.

Then open with a 2–3 sentence conversational recap — what this project is, what was being worked on, and where things stand. Write it the way a colleague would catch someone up after they've been away, not as a bullet list.

Then follow with only the sections that have real content:

Key decisions — consequential choices already locked in.

Scientific context — datasets, baselines, reference periods, counterfactual definitions, known data quality issues.

Risks — load-bearing assumptions, things likely to go wrong.

Next action — the one concrete thing to do right now. If multiple paths are plausible, compare them in 2–3 lines each and recommend one.

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. 8d ago First seen · 46 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A fae3a3957ba5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pickup is a skill published in the GitHub repository dgilford/ai-science-toolkit (62 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 514 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.