repo-checkpoint

repo-checkpoint is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hotalexnet/agent-checkpoint. It costs 68 tokens per session (498 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository-local checkpoint workflow for Git projects that records current work and handoff details in a Markdown file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to save progress, capture files and remaining tasks, and prepare a handoff before closing a session.
Why use it?
It preserves the important context when a coding session ends so another agent or later session can resume the work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to save progress, capture files and remaining tasks, and prepare a handoff before closing a session.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hotalexnet/agent-checkpoint/repo-checkpoint
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 hotalexnet/agent-checkpoint --skill repo-checkpoint
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hotalexnet/agent-checkpoint

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 498 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 $0.00068 $0.00498
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00249
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00050

Measured 10d ago against content hash 31aa3fb65113, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

repo-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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/save_checkpoint.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

repo-checkpoint/SKILL.md · 65 lines

What it actually says

repo Checkpoint

Use this skill inside a git repository.

Why this skill exists

Conversation state is fragile. A repo-local markdown checkpoint is not.

This skill writes a timestamped markdown handoff under the fixed repo-local directory .agents/checkpoints/ so the next session can recover from any programming agent: Codex/OpenAI CLI, Claude Code, opencode, or a generic shell agent. The checkpoint belongs to the repository, not to a particular tool.

  • what the user actually wanted
  • what constraints mattered
  • what files were in play
  • what remains next

Mandatory first step

From the target repo root, run:

python3 ~/.agents/skills/repo-checkpoint/scripts/save_checkpoint.py --title "<short-title>" --agent "<codex|claude-code|opencode|other>"

If the skill is vendored into the repo instead of installed globally, run the same script from the vendored path.

Workflow

  1. Create the scaffold first. Do not invent the path manually.
  2. Replace every TODO with concrete current-session state.
  3. Treat Agent Handoff and Key Chat Context as first-class data:
    • which agent wrote the checkpoint
    • which agent should be able to resume it
    • where to start without relying on hidden conversation memory
    • user goal
    • explicit constraints
    • scope changes
    • rejected paths
    • exact wording worth preserving
  4. Keep Files In Play, Verification, and Next Step executable.
  5. End with the checkpoint path and tell the user that any supported agent can run repo-resume from the same repo next time.

Output contract

Keep these top-level sections exactly:

  • ## Agent Handoff
  • ## Session Goal
  • ## Current State
  • ## Key Chat Context
  • ## Files In Play
  • ## Verification
  • ## Next Step
  • ## Resume Recipe
  • ## Git Snapshot
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. 10d ago First seen · 65 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 31aa3fb65113

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repo-checkpoint is a skill published in the GitHub repository hotalexnet/agent-checkpoint (13 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 498 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.