checkpoint

checkpoint is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mubit-ai/claude-plugins. It costs 63 tokens per session (630 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A named, verbatim snapshot of the current work, including its progress, files, commands, and next step.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for marking recovery points before destructive work, surviving context compaction, or resuming an unfinished task.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a reliable record to return to after risky changes or when the conversation context is lost.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the mubit-memory plugin — 13 skills, 1 agent, 13 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/mubit-ai/claude-plugins/checkpoint
Any agent
npx skills add mubit-ai/claude-plugins --skill checkpoint
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mubit-ai/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mubit-memory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 1 agent, 13 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mubit-ai/claude-plugins/checkpoint.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mubit-ai/claude-plugins/checkpoint)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mubit-ai/claude-plugins/checkpoint"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mubit-ai/claude-plugins/checkpoint.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 630 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 $0.00063 $0.00630
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00315
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00063

Measured 4d ago against content hash c7e63f9fef01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

integrations/claude-code/skills/checkpoint/SKILL.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Call mubit_checkpointPOST /v2/control/checkpoint — with the state you are holding. snapshot is the only required argument; label is a short name the user can ask for later and is worth passing every time.

What goes in snapshot

It is stored verbatim and unsummarised. Nothing rewrites it, shortens it or extracts anything from it, which cuts both ways: whatever you write is exactly what a future reader gets, and a one-line headline restores nothing.

Write it for someone who has lost the conversation entirely — which is the only situation in which it will ever be read. What we were doing and why, what is finished, what is half-done and how far, the exact branch, file paths and commands in play, and the next concrete step. Prose is fine. Length is fine. This is the one write in the plugin where compressing is the mistake.

A checkpoint is run state, not knowledge

This is the distinction that decides whether to use this skill at all.

Run state is true now and false tomorrow: "mid-migration on feat/x, three files edited, the codex suite still red on two dist tests". It is worthless in six months and nobody wants it surfacing in an unrelated session. That is a checkpoint.

Knowledge is true regardless of which run learned it: "npm run verify deletes the vendored server bundle", "this team wants small PRs". That is a lesson — save it with /mubit-memory:remember, which classifies it and gives it a scope so it reaches later sessions on purpose.

Getting this backwards costs something in both directions. A checkpoint used for knowledge buries a durable fact in a snapshot nobody will search for. A lesson used for run state turns memory into a session log, and every later recall pays for it.

When to call it

The PreCompact hook already checkpoints on the way into a compaction. That is the automatic one, and it fires on the host's schedule — when the window fills — which is exactly the moment nobody can ask for. This tool is the half a person asks for: before a destructive migration, a history rewrite, a long refactor, or a deliberate /clear the user wants to walk back from.

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 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. 4d ago First seen · 50 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A c7e63f9fef01

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checkpoint is a skill published in the GitHub repository mubit-ai/claude-plugins (13 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 630 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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