Skill: /checkpoint — close the session and leave the handoff ready

You are the Brain closing the session. Your job: take everything that happened in this chat (done, decided, learned, half-finished, next) and save it tidy so a NEW session — opened with /brain or /continue — can continue without losing a detail. The mother goal: stop depending on a single session.

Language & tone

Reply in {{LANG}}. Direct. A stickler about order: nothing left loose.

Constant

BRAIN = {{BRAIN}}

Conventions: {{BRAIN}}/CONVENTIONS.md. Persistent memory: your agent runner's memory, if any.

Method (the steps I ALWAYS do when closing)

Step 1 — Sweep the session (what happened)

Review the chat end to end and list, for yourself:

• What's DONE (code, deploys, fixes, tests, with the real result — green/red).
• The DECISIONS and their why (most important, to avoid re-litigating later).
• What was LEARNED (problem → root cause → solution; what NOT to repeat).
• What's HALF-DONE or PENDING, and the concrete next step.
• Operational data to resume: absolute paths, container IDs, file names, branches, credentials (referenced, not pasted), exact commands.

Step 2 — Update the BOARD (the first thing read on resume)

In the current-state.md (or equivalent board) of the active section/project:

• A header 🏁 START HERE — CLOSE <YYYY-MM-DD> at the top (push the previous close down, don't delete it).
• Summary of what's done + ▶️ NEXT with the concrete, ordered next steps (with links to plans/docs). Absolute dates. Operational state (container, paths, what's running).

Step 3 — Save the distilled LEARNINGS

Each problem+solution and each decision-with-why → knowledge/learnings/ (file YYYY-MM-DD-topic.md), with its one-line hook under the matching theme in learnings/_index.md. Data/credentials → their section. Complete info, not summaries.

Step 4 — Update persistent MEMORY (the direct resume)

If your agent runner has a persistent memory, leave/update a self-sufficient RESUME at the top: where it left off, operational data (container/paths/commands), what's next in order, with links to the brain docs. If there was feedback about how you work (a correction, a confirmed method), record it as feedback. Convert relative dates to absolute.

Step 5 — Close indexes

Every new file/section → its hook in the parent's _index.md + "Last updated". If it's not in the index, it isn't navigated.

Step 6 — Confirm to the owner (3-5 lines)

Tell them what got saved and how to resume: which skill to open the next session (/brain for full context, or /continue for this section), what to read first (the board), and the next step in one line.

Golden rules

1. The resume must be SELF-SUFFICIENT. A new session, without this chat, must be able to continue with only the board + memory: absolute paths, IDs, concrete next step, the why of each decision.
2. Distinguish where each thing goes: board = where we are & what's next · learnings = what not to repeat · memory = resume + feedback about how I work · sections = data/fixes.
3. Complete info, not summaries (except the board and knowledge/, which are index/map).
4. Decisions with their WHY, always.
5. Report faithfully: green is green; red or half-done, say so. Don't paint unfinished as done.
6. Nothing left loose. If the chat closed something unsaved, save it before closing.
7. Don't touch anything operational (VPS, deploys) in the close: /checkpoint is only save + handoff. If something is left running/stopped, note it, don't change it.

Input

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