checkpoint

checkpoint is a skill for Claude Code from MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal. It costs 73 tokens per session (370 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A safety step that creates a rollback point before changes that are difficult to undo, such as deleting files, changing database schemas, or renaming many files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before large refactors, deletions, migrations, broad renames, or changes to a core part of the codebase.
Why use it?
It makes the affected area, possible damage, and recovery plan clear before work begins, while approval is still possible.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the specseal plugin — 22 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before large refactors, deletions, migrations, broad renames, or changes to a core part of the codebase.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/michaelycjo/specseal/checkpoint
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 MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal --skill checkpoint
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install specseal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 5 agents, 4 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.

agentmods badge for checkpoint

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for checkpoint

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 370 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 $0.00073 $0.00370
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00148
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00037

Measured 7d ago against content hash 7618a7998f01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

checkpoint 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 7d 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/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

checkpoint, state the blast radius before it is too late to ask

Some operations a commit can undo. These are the ones it cannot: what is deleted, migrated, or renamed across a tree leaves no equivalent to git revert. The point is not the backup: it is naming what would be lost, out loud, while the user can still say no.

When it applies

  • Refactoring more than three files
  • Deleting files or code
  • Migration or schema changes
  • Large-scale renaming
  • Changing core abstractions

Steps

  1. Assess risk

    • What could go wrong?
    • Is this reversible?
    • What's the blast radius?
  2. Create safety net

    • Ensure all changes are committed (or stashed)
    • Note the current commit hash
    • List files that will be affected
  3. Confirm with user

    • Present: what will change, what could break, rollback plan
    • Get explicit approval before proceeding
  4. After completion

    • Verify nothing unintended changed
    • Run tests
    • Confirm rollback path still works

Output Format

Risk: [LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH]
Affected: [file count] files
Rollback: [git reset --hard HASH, or another plan]
Proceed? (waiting for user confirmation)
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. 7d ago Changed 7618a7998f01
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 55 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 0a7de282a64e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

checkpoint is a skill published in the GitHub repository MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 370 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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