checkpoint

checkpoint is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from phj128/autoworker. It costs 50 tokens per session (737 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A progress-recording step for an automated coding workflow. It reads a subtask file, records completed implementation phases or test results, and then sends the work to the next workflow step.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after an implementation or test step to update the subtask’s plan and results, identify the next action, and continue the automated workflow.
Why use it?
It keeps the plan and verification record aligned with the actual work. It also detects missing, ambiguous, or multiple active subtask files before recording progress.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the autoworker plugin — 11 skills, 1 command 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/phj128/autoworker/checkpoint
Any agent
npx skills add phj128/autoworker --skill checkpoint
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phj128/autoworker

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install autoworker, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 command.

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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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 737 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 5.1 $0.00050 $0.00737
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00368
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00074

Measured 5d ago against content hash cd75ccb34075, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 5d 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 · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

autoworker:checkpoint — Record Progress (Phase Check-off / Test Results)

Called after every autoworker:code or autoworker:test completion. Performs different record-keeping based on upstream type, then always calls autoworker:dispatch.

Execution Flow

1. Locate Subtask

Glob `subtask_*.md` (exclude subtask_template.md) →
  0 found → stop, prompt to create subtask
  1 found → use directly (backward compatible)
  multiple → grep `status:` to filter:
    - Files without status field treated as active (backward compatible)
    - Exactly 1 active → use it
    - 0 active → list all files + status, prompt user to choose
    - >1 active → report anomaly
→ Read → locate "## Plan", "## Verification Plan", and "## Test Results" sections

2. Determine Upstream Type

Prioritize conversation context; when context is insufficient, infer from file state:

  • Upstream is autoworker:code: Conversation contains Phase implementation content; or file has unchecked Phase with corresponding code files already modified
  • Upstream is autoworker:test: Conversation contains test execution output; or file has all Phases checked but incomplete test layers

3a. Upstream is autoworker:code → Phase Check-off

  1. Extract the just-completed Phase number and Step list from conversation context
  2. Edit subtask's "Plan" section: check off all Steps for that Phase [x]
  3. Append completion record in "Progress Log" section:
**Phase X complete**
<brief change description>

3b. Upstream is autoworker:test → Test Results Write

  1. Extract test level and per-item results from conversation context
  2. Edit subtask's "Test Results" section, format:
### L<N>
- `<command>`: <output summary> PASS/FAIL
  1. Check off passed items [x] in the "Verification Plan" section

4. Judgment Criteria

Hard standard for "pass":

  • Function completes expected task and returns meaningful results
  • Returning empty array/empty string without error ≠ pass
  • "No exception thrown" ≠ pass

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 5d ago First seen · 83 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A cd75ccb34075

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checkpoint is a skill published in the GitHub repository phj128/autoworker (17 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 737 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.