snapshot

snapshot is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from liustack/vibemaster. It costs 154 tokens per session (1,475 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session handoff tool that records the current task in a file so a later coding session can resume it. It includes decisions, progress, and facts that should be checked again.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to save a task snapshot, hand work to another session, or restore an earlier snapshot and continue working.
Why use it?
It prevents work from being lost when a session ends or runs out of context. The next session can continue without repeating settled discussions.

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/liustack/vibemaster/snapshot
Any agent
npx skills add liustack/vibemaster --skill snapshot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liustack/vibemaster

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 snapshot

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/liustack/vibemaster/snapshot.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/liustack/vibemaster/snapshot)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/liustack/vibemaster/snapshot"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/liustack/vibemaster/snapshot.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 154 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,475 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 $0.00154 $0.01475
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00737
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00147

Measured 4d ago against content hash 317fa3d4ebcc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

snapshot 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 4d 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/snapshot/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

snapshot: task-state snapshots

Iron rule: the reader is a new session that knows nothing. There's exactly one bar to clear: reading only this snapshot, they can carry on without re-asking, re-checking, or re-litigating decisions that are already settled. A memo written for yourself doesn't clear it.

Writing a snapshot (wrapping up)

Save it to the workspace draft directory at .issues/<YYYY-MM-DD-topic>/snapshot.md. If the task already has a directory, write into it. When the same task wraps up again later, update that same file (it's a living document, not a log). Before writing to disk, make sure the draft directory is ignored: if git check-ignore .issues fails, append .issues/ to .git/info/exclude (a local ignore, leaving the shared .gitignore untouched) and let the user know. In a non-git environment there's no commit risk, so write directly.

Where the handoff lands decides what must travel. .issues/ is machine-local (gitignored), and uncommitted changes exist only here, which is exactly right when the reader is this machine's next session. When the work moves to another machine or someone else's agent, a local snapshot hands over nothing: push the work to a WIP branch, carry the snapshot's content in something that travels with the repo (the commit message, the PR description, or a file the user chooses to commit), and say out loud which parts stay machine-local.

Five sections, ordered by what the new session needs, not by chronology:

  1. Goal and current state: one line on what the task is and how far along it is overall.
  2. Decisions already made (questions not to reopen): each one with its reasoning. The biggest waste in a new session is re-litigating something already settled: write the reasoning in full, this section never gets to summarize.
  3. Verified state: which files changed, and the actual results of tests and lint (pass or fail, and what command ran them). Anything unverified gets written as "unverified," never "should be fine."
  4. Next steps and blockers: an ordered to-do list, each item with enough context to act on. Blockers get their own list: questions waiting on the user's call stay exactly as open questions, don't decide for them.
  5. State pointers: branch, uncommitted changes, commands that need rerunning, key file paths, rollback point, and what has to be running for the work to continue (dev server, containers, required environment variables).

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 4d ago First seen · 56 lines · 154 tokens per session scan A 317fa3d4ebcc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

snapshot is a skill published in the GitHub repository liustack/vibemaster (11 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 154 tokens to every session and 1,475 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.

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