session-summary

A session handoff record for work on a software feature. It writes a readable entry in a feature's session log so work can be resumed later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when finishing a feature, stopping work for the day, or closing a session after a feature is merged.
Why use it?
It prevents important context, progress, and next steps from being lost when a coding session ends or its notes are condensed.

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/swingerman/engineer/session-summary
Any agent
npx skills add swingerman/engineer --skill session-summary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swingerman/engineer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,006 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 $0.00054 $0.01006
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00503
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00101

Measured 2d ago against content hash c871651f026f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

session-summary 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 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.

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.

engineer/skills/session-summary/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

session-summary

Write the per-session entry in a feature's session-log.md so the human can close the laptop and pick back up cleanly. The human-readable counterpart to the machine handoffs. checkpoint: null.

When to use

At the end of a work session on a feature. Three boundaries reach it without the human remembering to:

  • The feature mergedpost-merge Step 6 auto-invokes it at autonomy medium/high.
  • The context is about to compact — an optional PreCompact hook; see ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/examples/pre-compact-session-summary.md. This is the boundary where the pickup record matters most, because everything else about the session is about to be summarized away.
  • The human stops — an optional Stop hook.

Both hooks are project config, not part of this skill.

It is deliberately not invoked at every checkpoint exit: this is a per-session record, and several entries a day makes session-log.md useless for the one job it has — being readable when you come back cold.

Not for: mid-session (nothing's wrapping up); syncing the tracker (progress-log); per-skill records (each skill's own handoff).

Workflow

  1. Resolve + scope — resolve the methodology root + manifest via ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/dae_resolve.py (see references/resolving.md). Scope = the feature(s) the session touched (default: current branch; multiple → an entry in each; none → nothing to log, stop).
  2. Gather — synthesize from this session's handoffs/*.md, git activity on the branch, and conversation context (decisions, problems, deferrals).
  3. Append the entry — append (never overwrite) to features/NNN-<slug>/session-log.md:
## Session — <ISO date> <start>–<end>
**Current state:** <which checkpoint, one line>
### Previous tasks (done this session)
- ...
### Current task
- <in progress at session end, if any>
### Next tasks
- <concrete, actionable, ordered>
### Open questions / blockers
- <or "None">

Create the file with a # Session log — <title> heading if absent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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 · 63 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A c871651f026f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

session-summary is a skill published in the GitHub repository swingerman/engineer (144 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,006 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.

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