restart-claude

restart-claude is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zylos-ai/zylos-core. It costs 23 tokens per session (593 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A restart procedure for Claude Code, a command-line coding assistant. It saves session information, exits the current process, and lets the activity monitor start it again with refreshed settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when the user requests a restart or after changing Claude Code configuration, hooks, or keyboard shortcuts.
Why use it?
It reloads changed settings, hooks, or keybindings while preserving enough context to continue work. It also checks for background tasks that could be left behind.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when the user requests a restart or after changing Claude Code configuration, hooks, or keyboard shortcuts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zylos-ai/zylos-core/restart-claude
About the project

Zylos is open-source infrastructure that gives an AI agent persistent memory, scheduled activity, communication channels, and the ability to maintain and extend itself. Individuals and teams use it with Claude Code or Codex through Telegram, Lark, or a web console. Its catalogue add-ons define settings, instructions, and skills for operating the agent.

zylos-ai/zylos-core · 1,151 stars · on GitHub · zylos.ai

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 zylos-ai/zylos-core --skill restart-claude
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zylos-ai/zylos-core

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 593 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00023 $0.00593
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00296
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00059

Measured 13d ago against content hash 3c57e2c74aed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

restart-claude 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 13d 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/restart-claude/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Restart Claude Code Skill

Restart Claude Code session - sends /exit and lets activity-monitor daemon handle the restart.

When to Use

  • After changing Claude Code settings, hooks, or keybindings
  • When Claude needs to reload configuration
  • To clear temporary state without upgrading
  • User explicitly asks to restart

Pre-Restart Checklist

Before sending /exit, complete these steps in order:

1. Stop background tasks

Check for running background agents (Task tool). If any are active, stop them to avoid orphaned work.

2. Sync memory

Update memory files (state.md, sessions/current.md, etc.) to preserve important context that would otherwise be lost on restart.

3. Write a session handoff summary

Write a brief message covering:

  • What was being worked on (active tasks, user requests in progress)
  • Current state (what's done, what's pending, any blockers)
  • What the next session should pick up (if anything)

4. Send the handoff summary

Send the full handoff summary to the internal void channel via C4:

cat <<'EOF' | node ~/zylos/.claude/skills/comm-bridge/scripts/c4-send.js "void" "session-handoff"
<handoff summary>
EOF

The void channel is record-only: the message is stored in C4 conversation history (so the restarted session's startup hook, c4-session-init, includes it in startup context) but is never delivered to any real channel or display surface.

Do not send the full handoff summary to the active external user channel (Telegram, Lark, Feishu, HXA, etc.). Handoff summaries are operational context for the next agent session and may contain task state from outside the current conversation. If the user is actively waiting, send only a short user-facing notice to their current reply via path, without internal task inventory or cross-channel context.

5. Enqueue /exit

node ~/zylos/.claude/skills/comm-bridge/scripts/c4-control.js enqueue --content "/exit" --priority 1 --block-queue-until-idle

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 13d ago First seen · 70 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 3c57e2c74aed

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restart-claude is a skill published in the GitHub repository zylos-ai/zylos-core (1,151 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 593 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.