context-saver

context-saver is a skill for Claude Code from mhylle/claude-skills-collection. It costs 161 tokens per session (2,086 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session handoff tool that writes the current unfinished work to a readable Markdown file. It records decisions, active files, blockers and next steps for a later session or another person.

In plain words
What is it for?
Pausing work mid-task, handing a task to another developer or agent, and recording the exact state needed to continue implementation.
Why use it?
It prevents progress from being lost when a coding session ends before the task is complete.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the devflow plugin — 38 skills, 13 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Pausing work mid-task, handing a task to another developer or agent, and recording the exact state needed to continue implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mhylle/claude-skills-collection/context-saver
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 mhylle/claude-skills-collection --skill context-saver
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mhylle/claude-skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 13 agents, 5 hooks.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 161 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,086 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 3
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00161 $0.02086
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.01043
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00417
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00209

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9cde8e334732, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-saver 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 12d 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-saver/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context Saver

Preserve in-flight session state to disk for seamless continuation in another session. Extracts signal from noise — captures the essential state (trajectory, decisions, active files, blockers, next steps) while discarding ephemeral details (exploratory reads, rejected paths, verbose tool output).

Scope — how this differs from auto-memory

Claude Code has a built-in memory system at ~/.claude/projects/.../memory/ that captures long-lived, typed entries (user, feedback, project, reference). That handles persistent knowledge: facts about you, validated preferences, project-state that's true across sessions.

This skill handles what memory doesn't: the snapshot of what you're actively doing right now. It's the answer to "I need to step away mid-task — capture where I am so a new session can pick up seamlessly."

  • Memory: "This user prefers pytest over unittest." (always true, loads into every session)
  • This skill: "Currently refactoring src/auth/token.service.ts:45-78 — tried approach A (failed, see line 60), now trying approach B, next step is to update the test at __tests__/token.service.spec.ts:120." (true right now, for this specific task)

Memory grows bigger over months; context-save docs are ephemeral — delete them once the work they describe lands.

When to Use

  • User explicitly requests context saving ("save context", "checkpoint this")
  • Before ending a long session with incomplete work
  • When switching focus and needing to preserve state
  • Before attempting risky operations that may require rollback
  • When collaborating and need to hand off context to another session

Core Principles

Signal Extraction Priority

  1. Trajectory (highest): What is the user trying to achieve? What's the end goal?
  2. Decisions: What choices were made and why? What was rejected?
  3. State: What code is being modified? What's the current progress?
  4. Approaches: What has been tried? What worked/failed?
  5. Noise (discard): Exploratory reads, rejected paths, verbose tool output

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 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. 12d ago First seen · 262 lines · 161 tokens per session scan A 9cde8e334732

Subscribe to this mod's changes

context-saver is a skill published in the GitHub repository mhylle/claude-skills-collection (18 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 161 tokens to every session and 2,086 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 2026-08-30.

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