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self-cycle

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Arm a detached watchdog that compacts or restarts THIS Claude Code session inside its cmux pane and then re-prompts it so outstanding work continues. Use when the user asks to self-compact, auto-compact, self-refresh, self-restart, cycle the session, or pick up a new Claude Code build without losing the current task.

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    Write a specific continuation prompt, then:

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SKILL.md

self-cycle

Two operations, one engine (selfcycle.sh):

  • compact — inject /compact, wait for a transcript outcome, re-prompt.
  • refresh — respawn the pane on its cmux resume binding, re-prompt the restored session.

Claude Code also exposes these as /self-compact and /self-refresh. This skill is the installable package that includes the engine. After npx skills add, run install.sh once so those slash names exist under ~/.claude/skills (and under ~/.agents/skills / ~/.cursor/skills if those directories are already present). The installer is idempotent.

Engine path

ENGINE="${SELFCYCLE_HOME:-$HOME/.claude/skills/self-cycle}/selfcycle.sh"
[ -f "$ENGINE" ] || ENGINE="$HOME/.agents/skills/self-cycle/selfcycle.sh"

Compact

Write a specific continuation prompt, then:

bash "$ENGINE" compact "<continuation prompt>"

End the turn immediately. SELFCYCLE_ARMED means the watchdog fires in ~8s. SELFCYCLE_ABORT means nothing was armed — report the reason and stop; do not retry.

Refresh

Same pattern, but the pane will be killed:

bash "$ENGINE" refresh "<continuation prompt>"

Refuse if you are mid-flight on work a restart would lose, a /goal is in progress, or you still need background tasks / subagents. Refresh a sweep driver last.

SELFCYCLE_ABORT no cmux resume binding means respawn would destroy the conversation. Sessions started by typing claude into a shell have no binding.

Recovery

bash "$ENGINE" status
bash "$ENGINE" abort
bash "$ENGINE" doctor

Log: state/selfcycle.log next to the engine.

Requirements

cmux (macOS 14+), a terminal cmux pane (CMUX_SURFACE_ID), cmux's Claude Code hook registry, jq, and bash 3.2+. There is no tmux/iTerm fallback. See README.md.

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