checkpoint-summary

checkpoint-summary is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from liza-mas/liza. It costs 20 tokens per session (2,440 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A summary of work produced by coding agents during planning or writing phases. It highlights decisions, unfinished items, and questions that need a person's judgment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after an epic plan, multiple user stories, or another multi-agent phase has finished and needs human review.
Why use it?
It lets a person check the important results without reading every planning or writing artifact.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it after an epic plan, multiple user stories, or another multi-agent phase has finished and needs human review.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,440 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00020 $0.02440
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01220
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00488
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00244

Measured 10d ago against content hash 180e049d0de9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

checkpoint-summary 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.

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/checkpoint-summary/SKILL.md · 243 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

After agents complete a planning or writing phase (epic planning, story writing, spec generation), summarize their output so a human can efficiently review what was decided, what remains open, and where their attention is needed.

This skill answers: "What did the agents produce, what did they decide, and what do I need to weigh in on?"

The agents already did the work — planning, reviewing, approving. This skill reads their outputs and distills them into a checkpoint summary that respects the human's time.

Distinct from spec-review: spec-review audits spec quality. This skill summarizes what was already reviewed and approved, surfacing only what needs human judgment.

Trigger

Use this skill when:

  • Epic planning completes and the human needs a checkpoint summary
  • Story writing completes across multiple agents
  • Any multi-agent phase produces artifacts the human hasn't read
  • User asks "what did the agents produce?", "what needs my attention?", or "summarize the plans"
  • Orchestrator requests a human checkpoint (§BRAND_NAME_TITLE§ mode)

Inputs

The single entry point is §BRAND_PROJECT_DIRNAME§/state.yaml — the source of truth for all §BRAND_NAME_TITLE§ state.

From state.yaml, the skill reads:

  • goal.spec_ref: the upstream source document the agents worked from
  • tasks[]: each task with its scope, status, output capabilities, approvals, and history
  • Artifact refs (read all that exist, in priority order):
    • tasks[].plan_ref / tasks[].arch_ref — task-level planning and architecture artifacts
    • tasks[].output[].plan_ref / tasks[].output[].arch_ref — output-entry artifacts
    • tasks[].spec_ref — task-level spec (may differ from goal.spec_ref)
  • tasks[].approvals[]: review verdicts with provider/diversity context (canonical); fall back to tasks[].approved_by if approvals[] is absent
  • tasks[].history[]: full event timeline (claimed, checkpoint, submitted, approved, merged)
  • sprint.status and sprint.checkpoint_trigger: why the checkpoint was triggered

Read the full file on GitHub · 243 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. 10d ago First seen · 243 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 180e049d0de9

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checkpoint-summary is a skill published in the GitHub repository liza-mas/liza (382 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 2,440 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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