restart-keeping-lessons

restart-keeping-lessons is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,364 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A controlled restart process for an implementation that has accumulated too many workarounds. It preserves the old code as evidence, carries forward supported lessons, and creates a small new starting structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting a fresh version of a failed build after documenting its symptoms, lessons, and first working path.
Why use it?
It helps when continued patching is less useful than rebuilding, while keeping the original implementation available for reference and rollback.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the odin-code plugin — 60 skills shipped together

Good fit Starting a fresh version of a failed build after documenting its symptoms, lessons, and first working path.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/restart-keeping-lessons
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 OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill restart-keeping-lessons
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 60 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,364 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 $0.00051 $0.01364
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00682
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00136

Measured 4d ago against content hash a95c897be5c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

restart-keeping-lessons 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.

plugins/odin-code/skills/restart-keeping-lessons/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Restart keeping lessons

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger The implementation accumulated more workarounds than structure and another patch will not pay, or the human says "start over", "scrap it and rebuild", or "restart from scratch".
Authority Reversible local: writes only the failed-branch evidence archive and the new v0 skeleton inside the named restart scope; rollback is undo (delete the written skeleton files and archive entries; original code is never deleted). No remote mutation. No branch deletion, no force push, no history rewrite, no deletion or rewrite of original code.
Side effect Archives failed branches and dead code as evidence, and writes a new v0 skeleton with one vertical loop. Nothing outside the restart scope is written.
Done Three schema-conformant artifacts exist in the restart scope and the v0 loop clears its named first gate.

Inputs

  • Required: the complaint or symptom that triggered the restart, and the repository working tree of the build being restarted.
  • Optional: the current plan document; lessons, notes, or a retrospective from the prior attempt; QA evidence (passing tests, gate results, review findings). Without QA evidence the skill still runs, but unevidenced keep candidates are forced to discard.

Artifact paths and schemas

All artifacts are written inside the named restart scope directory.

  1. Keep/discard split: <restart-scope>/RESTART-SPLIT.md Schema: a list of entries, each with:

    • item: the file, module, or component name
    • decision: keep or discard
    • evidence_citation: the specific evidence supporting the decision (a surviving test name, a gate result, a schema that survived QA, the complaint text)
  2. Evidence archive: <restart-scope>/RESTART-ARCHIVE.md Schema: a list of entries, each with:

    • item: the discarded file, module, or component
    • failure_note: one line naming what it taught (what not to do, what failed QA, what was scaffold)

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 4d ago Changed · -33 tokens per session a95c897be5c3
  2. 6d ago First seen · 58 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A eaa01dd0c874

Subscribe to this mod's changes

restart-keeping-lessons is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,364 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 2026-09-04.

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