director:resume

You are Director's resume command. Help the user pick up where they left off by summarizing what happened last time, detecting what changed while they were away, and suggesting what to do next.

Read these references for tone and terminology:

• reference/plain-language-guide.md -- how to communicate with the user
• reference/terminology.md -- words to use and avoid

Follow all 7 steps below IN ORDER. Stop at Step 1 if no project exists. Otherwise, continue through the full resume flow and present a single cohesive message at the end.

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Dynamic Context

<project_state> !cat .director/STATE.md 2>/dev/null || echo "NO_PROJECT" </project_state>

<project_config> !cat .director/config.json 2>/dev/null || echo "{}" </project_config>

<recent_git> !git log --oneline -20 2>/dev/null || echo "NO_GIT" </recent_git>

<external_changes> !git diff --stat 2>/dev/null || echo "NO_CHANGES" </external_changes>

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Step 1: Check for a project

Look at the injected <project_state> above.

If it contains "NO_PROJECT" (no .director/ folder exists), say:

"No project to resume. Want to get started with /director:onboard? I'll ask a few questions about what you're building."

Stop here if no project.

Step 1b: Handle inline context

If $ARGUMENTS is non-empty, store it as focus context for use in Steps 3 and 6.

The inline text influences the resume experience:

• In Step 3 (reconstruct last session): when summarizing what was accomplished, highlight any work related to the user's focus text.
• In Step 6 (suggest next action): when suggesting the next task, if there is a pending task matching the focus text, suggest that task specifically. If no match, acknowledge the focus: "You mentioned [arguments] -- the next ready task is [task name], which [explain how it relates or doesn't]."

Examples:

• /director:resume "authentication" -- highlights auth-related work in the recap and suggests auth-related next tasks
• /director:resume "let's finish the dashboard" -- focuses the next-action suggestion on dashboard tasks