agent-checkpointing

agent-checkpointing is a skill for Claude Code from latestaiagents/agent-skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (2,585 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for saving an agent’s progress at checkpoints so its execution can be restored, replayed, debugged, or branched.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build recoverable agents, resume interrupted workflows, investigate failures, test specific scenarios, and try alternate paths from saved state.
Why use it?
It reduces lost work after failures and makes it possible to reproduce the exact path an agent took.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the agent-architect plugin — 13 skills, 1 command, 5 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to build recoverable agents, resume interrupted workflows, investigate failures, test specific scenarios, and try alternate paths from saved state.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-architect, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 1 command, 5 MCP servers.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,585 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 $0.00067 $0.02585
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.01034
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00517
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00259

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e48476ef2e9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-checkpointing 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 1mo 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.

plugins/agent-architect/skills/langgraph/agent-checkpointing/SKILL.md · 407 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 407 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Checkpointing

Save, restore, replay, and debug agent execution with checkpoints.

Why Checkpointing?

  • Recovery: Resume from failure without losing progress
  • Debugging: Replay exact execution path
  • Branching: Try different paths from same checkpoint
  • Audit: Complete history of agent decisions
  • Testing: Reproduce specific scenarios

Checkpoint Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    Checkpoint Timeline                       │
│                                                              │
│   CP-1        CP-2        CP-3        CP-4                  │
│    │           │           │           │                     │
│    ▼           ▼           ▼           ▼                     │
│  ┌───┐       ┌───┐       ┌───┐       ┌───┐                  │
│  │ S │──────▶│ S │──────▶│ S │──────▶│ S │                  │
│  └───┘       └───┘       └───┘       └───┘                  │
│  State       State       State       State                   │
│    +           +           +           +                     │
│  Metadata   Metadata   Metadata   Metadata                  │
│                              │                               │
│                              │  Rewind here                  │
│                              ▼                               │
│                            ┌───┐                             │
│                            │ S │──────▶ New Branch          │
│                            └───┘                             │
│                                                              │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Basic Checkpointing

Setup

from langgraph.graph import StateGraph, END
from langgraph.checkpoint.sqlite import SqliteSaver
from langgraph.checkpoint.postgres import PostgresSaver

# Development: SQLite
checkpointer = SqliteSaver.from_conn_string("./checkpoints.db")

# Production: PostgreSQL
checkpointer = PostgresSaver.from_conn_string(
    "postgresql://user:pass@host/db"
)

# Compile graph with checkpointer
app = workflow.compile(checkpointer=checkpointer)

Read the full file on GitHub · 407 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. 1mo ago First seen · 407 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A e48476ef2e9f

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agent-checkpointing is a skill published in the GitHub repository latestaiagents/agent-skills (6 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 2,585 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 2026-08-31.

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