checkpoint-log

checkpoint-log is a skill for Claude Code from randommonicle/claude-skills. It costs 113 tokens per session (925 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A running record of progress for work that spans several commits or sessions. It records what each commit changed, key decisions, plan deviations, and the final checklist review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to track multi-step coding work, explain why changes were made, and verify that required wiring and checklist items are complete.
Why use it?
It prevents important decisions and unfinished setup steps from being lost between commits or sessions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ash plugin — 43 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to track multi-step coding work, explain why changes were made, and verify that required wiring and checklist items are complete.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/randommonicle/claude-skills/checkpoint-log
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 randommonicle/claude-skills --skill checkpoint-log
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/randommonicle/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ash, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 925 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.
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 $0.00113 $0.00925
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00463
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00093

Measured 10d ago against content hash 3c742d12936b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

checkpoint-log 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 10d 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.

checkpoint-log/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Checkpoint log

A handover note is written at the end of a session, so a session that dies unexpectedly takes its unwritten detail with it, and the next session inherits a compressed summary it has to re-derive. This skill moves the record to the commit boundary: every commit in a multi-commit unit carries a short checkpoint note, so the repository sits at a documented, resumable checkpoint after every commit. Layer: leaf (commit seam). Admitted by review rather than by the misses log — see Provenance — so candidate-tier until fires accumulate.

The rule

A multi-commit work unit keeps a live log entry per commit, staged with that commit, and closes only after an explicit item-by-item walk of its checklist.

How to apply

  • The file. WORKLOG.md in the project root, append-only, one ## heading per work unit. A project with an established worklog location uses that instead, consistently.
  • The unit opens with two things: a one-line goal, and the checklist of planned commits or tasks as checkboxes. plan-first produces this list; copying it here makes progress visible in the file, not only in chat.
  • The per-commit entry is written before the commit and staged with the code: two to four sentences — what the commit did, the key decision and why it went that way, any deviation from the plan, any finding worth keeping. Tick the checklist item in the same edit. Long evidence goes in the commit body or the project's docs, never the log.
  • Why inside the commit: any commit can then be checked out cold and the log explains how the work got there; a later session resumes from the last entry without re-deriving, and the closing summary is written from the log alone.
  • Closing the unit: walk the checklist explicitly, item by item, before declaring it done — including the wiring steps that are easiest to skip: registrations and DI bindings, route tables and exports, config and environment entries, gitignore entries, migration catalog queries (db-migration-verification), doc updates, and deferred-item anchors planted where promised (flag-deferred-items). Only then write the closing summary from the log: what was built, what deviated, what was deferred and where its anchor is.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 10d ago First seen · 66 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 3c742d12936b

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checkpoint-log is a skill published in the GitHub repository randommonicle/claude-skills (23 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 925 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.