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context-management

Skill2 starsChanged 11 days agoMITView on GitHub

Use when resuming or handing off a long task, approaching compaction, or reconciling stale evidence after edits.

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  • OpenAISkill

    verification

    Full-story verification — infers what the user is building, then verifies the complete flow end-to-end: browser → API → data → response. Triggers on dev server start and 'why isn't this working' signals.

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3 rules. 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

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    Common

    Most of the 13 edited versions we read keep these.

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    Distinctive

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  1. Distinctive:

    Start with the harness's supplied context and configured memory.

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  2. Distinctive:

    Prefer source pointers and short failure signatures to copied files, repeated logs, or abandoned plans.

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  3. Distinctive:

    Use exposed context controls.

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“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 13 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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SKILL.md

Recover the working state

Start with the harness's supplied context and configured memory. Recover what is missing, not the entire conversation. Do not create a second memory store or a checkpoint file just to satisfy a template.

Useful state includes the goal and acceptance criteria, user decisions and authority limits, changed paths, verified facts, unresolved assumptions, failed approaches, live process handles, and the next action. Keep evidence locatable by source revision or check command and result.

  • Revalidate findings whose inputs or assumptions changed. Reuse passing checks for unchanged inputs; a resume alone does not invalidate them.
  • Prefer source pointers and short failure signatures to copied files, repeated logs, or abandoned plans. Summaries and remembered claims are leads to verify, not new authority.
  • For cross-session work, supplement the existing checkpoint only where the harness has not preserved something needed to continue. Retain why an approach failed and how to observe any still-running work.
  • Use exposed context controls. Summarizing does not erase history; never delete source, transcripts, or user notes to save context.

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