context-refresh

A session-recovery tool that rebuilds working context from a scratchpad file, a small document used to record project progress.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check whether the recorded plan still matches the project and update stale progress information.
Why use it?
It helps restore the current feature, branch, work status, completed tasks, and blockers after context is shortened or a session resumes.

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/koroqe/claude-code-sdlc/context-refresh
Any agent
npx skills add Koroqe/claude-code-sdlc --skill context-refresh
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Koroqe/claude-code-sdlc

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 679 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 $0.00033 $0.00679
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00340
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00068

Measured 2d ago against content hash f7d191113f2a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-refresh 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 2d 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/context-refresh/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Command: Context Refresh

Rebuild context from scratchpad to maintain clarity during long sessions.

Arguments

$mode (also available as $ARGUMENTS) optionally requests a specific mode. Literal-token flag rule: a documented flag is active ONLY if its literal token appears in $ARGUMENTS. Never infer that a flag was passed because the documentation describes it.

Process

1. Read Scratchpad

Read .claude/scratchpad.md and extract:

  • Feature name and branch (## Feature:, ## Branch:)
  • Current status (## Status: — idle/bootstrapping/implementing wave W slice N/M/implementing slice N/M/quality-gates/complete/blocked)
  • Plan progress by wave (if ### Wave N subheadings exist): which waves are complete, which wave is current, per-slice status within the current wave. If no wave subheadings, extract flat slice progress as before
  • Any blockers (## Blockers)
  • Recent work from ## Completed section

2. Verify Accuracy

Check if scratchpad matches current state:

  • Are goals still accurate?
  • Have new decisions been made?
  • Are next steps still relevant?
  • Has the git branch changed?

3. Update if Needed

If scratchpad is stale:

  • Update current goal
  • Add new constraints or decisions
  • Log recent commits and changes
  • Revise next steps based on progress

If scratchpad exceeds 100 lines:

  • Move completed waves (all slices DONE) from ## Plan to ## Archive as a unit — keep the ### Wave N block together. If no wave subheadings, move completed slices individually
  • Keep only the current wave and next wave in ## Plan
  • Keep only the last 3 entries in ## Completed
  • This prevents the scratchpad itself from consuming excessive context

4. Summarize Context

Provide concise summary of where we are.

5. Recommend Action

Based on context health:

  • Clean: Continue with current work
  • Noisy: Suggest which details can be archived
  • Stale: Update scratchpad with current state
  • Overwhelming: Consider starting a fresh session with claude -c

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. 2d ago First seen · 75 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A f7d191113f2a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

context-refresh is a skill published in the GitHub repository Koroqe/claude-code-sdlc (51 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 679 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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