checkpoint

A command that records a feature checkpoint by saving the current Git revision and a digest of the project specification. Git is a system for tracking code changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before implementing a substantial feature, refactoring many files, or running a feature loop that may need a rollback target.
Why use it?
It provides a known reference point for reviewing or restoring the state before a large change or automated run.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/qwerfunch/cladding/checkpoint
Any agent
npx skills add qwerfunch/cladding --skill checkpoint
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qwerfunch/cladding

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 514 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 $0.00090 $0.00514
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00257
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00051

Measured yesterday against content hash f723e8cfb828, 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 yesterday.

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/antigravity/skills/checkpoint/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Cladding checkpoint

Run clad checkpoint <featureId> from the project root. Iron Law backbone Phase 1 (iron-law.md §2.5) — the verb only stamps the audit-log entry; it never mutates the working tree or invokes git commit. The maintainer keeps the option to freeze the state with a normal git commit on top.

The checkpoint event payload carries:

  • featureId — the spec id, accepts both F-NNN legacy and F-<hash6> (v0.3.9+) shapes.
  • gitHead — full 40-char commit sha at the time of the call (or null when the project is not a git repository).
  • specDigest — sha-256 over the merged spec for replay verification.
  • timestamp — ISO 8601.
clad checkpoint F-001
clad checkpoint F-a3f9c2

The output is a single Pulse line: ✓ checkpoint · <featureId> head=<sha12> digest=<digest12>. The event lands in .cladding/events.log.jsonl as type: "feature_checkpoint" and can be inspected with clad doctor --json or clad_get_events over MCP.

When to use

  • Before invoking clad run on a single feature so the loop's RETRY_THRESHOLD halt has a target to roll back to.
  • Before a manual refactor large enough that git stash is unwieldy.
  • Right after clad sync reports the spec is valid, so the checkpoint pins exactly the validated spec digest the implementation will start from.

Pair with

clad rollback <featureId> — prints the maintainer-runnable git checkout <sha> for the latest checkpoint and stamps a feature_rolled_back event. The pair forms the v0.3.X Iron Law backbone for safe autonomous progress; see skills/rollback/SKILL.md.

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. yesterday First seen · 32 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A f723e8cfb828

Subscribe to this mod's changes

checkpoint is a skill published in the GitHub repository qwerfunch/cladding (14 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 514 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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