relief

relief is a skill for Claude Code from escoffier-labs/skillet. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,193 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handover procedure for unfinished work between coding agents or sessions. It records the current task state so another agent can resume without starting over.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pause work safely, record what is in progress, and continue a previous task from its last completed step.
Why use it?
It prevents lost context when work is paused, the conversation becomes too long, or a different agent takes over. It separates temporary task progress from durable project knowledge.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the skillet plugin — 54 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to pause work safely, record what is in progress, and continue a previous task from its last completed step.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/escoffier-labs/skillet/relief
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 escoffier-labs/skillet --skill relief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/escoffier-labs/skillet

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skillet, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 hook.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,193 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 $0.00076 $0.01193
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00477
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00119

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6f1493245d4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

relief 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.

skillet/skills/relief/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

relief

When the shift changes, the outgoing cook leaves the station set and a note on what is simmering; the relief cook reads the note, tastes what is in the pans, and carries on without restarting the stock. This skill is that handover for agent work: a clean stop that a cold-start agent can resume, and a pickup that reads the trail instead of redoing it.

Core principle: the trail says what happened; the artifact says what is true. Trust the first to find your place and the second to decide.

This is not the memory-handoff inbox. A resume note is task state for the next worker and lives in a scratch path. Durable findings (decisions, root causes, gotchas that outlive the task) still go through memory-handoff, never into the resume note alone.

Handing off (pause)

Do this when the user asks you to stop, or when context pressure forces it. "Keep going" is not a request to pause.

  • Land the current step. Finish the atomic step you are in or back it out cleanly; begin nothing new. Cancel any helper workers you started and confirm they stopped.
  • Change nothing outside the checkout. No push, PR, merge, or outbound message you were not already cleared to send.
  • Checkpoint locally. Stage the files you touched by name (never git add -A) and make one wip: commit. If you are on the default branch, switch to a new local branch first. Do not push it. If the tree is broken, say so in the commit body. Reword or squash it before it joins any PR.
  • Write the resume note to "$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)/relief/<slug>.md" (run mkdir -p on its directory first). That path is inside the repository's git directory, shared by its worktrees and never tracked. Fill in references/resume-note.md: intent, verified progress, state, next step, key files, gotchas.
  • Tell the user: where you stopped, what is on disk versus only in your head, the checkpoint commit and whether the tree is clean, the note's path, and the first action on resume. This is a pause, not a final report.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 7d ago First seen · 55 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 6f1493245d4e

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relief is a skill published in the GitHub repository escoffier-labs/skillet (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,193 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 2026-10-21.

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