continue

A session-resume helper that reads a handoff file, checks the current project state, and shows what to do next.

In plain words
What is it for?
Resuming development from a saved handoff, verifying the working folder, checking for changes, and reviewing suggested next steps.
Why use it?
It avoids losing context when work moves between sessions or computers. It also reveals when the project no longer matches the recorded state.

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/stefan-jansen/coding-agent-toolkit/continue
Any agent
npx skills add stefan-jansen/coding-agent-toolkit --skill continue
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stefan-jansen/coding-agent-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,956 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00074 $0.01956
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00978
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00391
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00196

Measured 2d ago against content hash e0a76f025eb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

continue scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

parsed sections but do not actually run any commands. Useful when the
skills/continue/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

continue — resume from a transition file

You are running the CONTINUE step of the workflow. Your job is to take a transition file produced by /handoff (or a freeform digest of the same shape) and bring the current session up to the state described there: confirm the working directory, run the verification snapshot, flag any drift against expected values, and present the suggested next steps so the user (or you) can pick one.

This step is host-neutral: same contract on Claude and Codex. The shared .workspace/transitions/ tree is the cross-host primitive — any session on either host can resume any transition file.

/continue is read + verify + present. It does NOT auto-execute a suggested next step — picking one is the user's call (or yours, after presenting the options).

Arguments

Parse these from the user's invocation (any order):

Arg Required Default Meaning
--from <path> no most recently modified file under .workspace/transitions/ Transition file to resume
--verify no true Run the verification snapshot and report drift
--no-verify no false Skip verification; only read + present
--cwd <path> no the one named in the file's "Working directory" section Override the cwd for verification

If the user pastes continue from <path> as the prompt itself, treat <path> as --from. This is the canonical "resumption" phrase that /handoff's output footer produces — recognizing it is part of the contract.

Resolving --from

If --from is omitted:

  1. Walk .workspace/transitions/ (newest dated subdirectory first).
  2. Pick the most recently modified .md file.
  3. If there are multiple files in the same minute, pick the alphabetically last (highest HHMMSS).
  4. If .workspace/transitions/ is empty or missing → abort with a suggestion to run /handoff first or to specify --from explicitly.

If the path doesn't exist → abort with the path the user named, and suggest ls .workspace/transitions/$(date -u +%Y-%m-%d)/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 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. 2d ago First seen · 205 lines · 74 tokens per session scan B e0a76f025eb8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

continue is a skill published in the GitHub repository stefan-jansen/coding-agent-toolkit (22 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,956 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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