save-work

save-work is a skill for Claude Code from digital-stoic-org/agent-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,663 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided menu for saving the current coding session and its project context to a file.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating or updating context files when you save, pause, checkpoint, or finish work.
Why use it?
It helps you leave work in a resumable state instead of relying on memory or losing important project details.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the cowork plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for creating or updating context files when you save, pause, checkpoint, or finish work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills/save-work
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 digital-stoic-org/agent-skills --skill save-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cowork, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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 save-work

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills/save-work"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills/save-work.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,663 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 5
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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 $0.00035 $0.01663
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00831
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00166

Measured 8d ago against content hash 42d7ccac5e97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

save-work 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.

cowork/skills/save-work/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Save Session

Menu-driven session save for non-CLI interfaces (Cowork desktop, Telegram, CC CLI). Same CONTEXT file format as retrospect:save-context / retrospect:load-context — files are interchangeable.

Target: 1200-1500 tokens MAX for CONTEXT file

Phase 1: Detect Current Project (parallel)

Glob: CONTEXT-*-llm.md (current dir, exclude done/)
Read: CLAUDE.md (first 5 lines, for project name from H1 — required)

Identify:

  • Project name (from CLAUDE.md H1 heading — all CLAUDE.md files must have # Project Name as first line)
  • Existing CONTEXT streams (filenames → stream names)

If no CLAUDE.md found in current dir or parents → warn: "⚠️ No project context detected. Use /switch first to select a project."

Before Phase 2: run quality self-check from reference.md — if session is trivial, confirm with user before proceeding.

⚠️ AskUserQuestion Guard

After EVERY AskUserQuestion call, check if answers are empty/blank. If empty: output "⚠️ Questions didn't display (known bug).", present options as numbered text list, WAIT for user reply.

Phase 2: Ask Save Type + Stream (single menu when possible)

0-1 existing streams → merge type + stream into 1 question:

💾 Save {stream-name} as:

1. 🔄 Checkpoint — I'll continue later
2. ✅ Done — this work is finished
3. 🅿️ Parking — switching to something else

Which one? (1/2/3)

Where {stream-name} = existing stream name, or auto-generated from project + conversation topic if no streams exist.

2+ existing streams → 2 questions. First ask stream:

📝 Save to which session?

1. 📍 {stream-1} (existing)
2. 📍 {stream-2} (existing)
3. ✨ New session

Which one?

Then ask save type (same 3-choice menu as above).

New stream confirmation (when auto-generated or user picks "New"):

📝 Stream name: {suggested-name}
OK? (yes / type a different name)

Mapping:

  • 1 → status: building
  • 2 → status: done
  • 3 → status: parked

Stream naming: pattern ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{1,50}$. Reserved: defaultCONTEXT-llm.md, baseline.

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 165 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 42d7ccac5e97

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save-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository digital-stoic-org/agent-skills (20 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,663 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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