checkpoint SKILL.md skillA
checkpoint from itw-creative-works/workkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add itw-creative-works/workkit/checkpoint@git:20261019.7cc77faPins git:20261019.7cc77fa in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- itw-creative-works/workkit
- Path
skills/checkpoint/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261019.7cc77fa, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 4, 2026
- Size
- 6,714 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Apply the chat to the board before a compaction. Every owner verdict, decision and question filed onto its issue, session.md trimmed. - Use on "checkpoint", "harden this chat", "save the conversation", and on ANY line about compacting, clearing, or restarting the chat or context.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Checkpoint: apply the chat to the board before it is compacted
A long chat holds verdicts and findings that exist NOWHERE ELSE, and compaction throws them away.
- This skill WRITES the conversation onto the board first: it files what is new, updates what exists, and moves every issue the owner's words moved.
- Afterwards "go", "continue" or "resume" starts from the issues, not the scrollback.
- **Invoking it is the owner's word to file AND to apply every status change they spoke**, for this run only.
- It drains the CONVERSATION, never the capture file. That stays `workkit:triage`'s (spec § Capture).
## The trigger is loose on purpose
- Any line that mentions compacting, in any form, fires it: compact, compaction, `/compact`, context full or low or running out, clear the chat, new chat, fresh session, start over.
- A question form ("can I compact?", "should I compact?") is answered by running this skill first, then yes.
- The `docs:checkpoint` hook (`hooks/docs/checkpoint/run.sh`) matches those phrases deterministically on every prompt and injects the instruction to run this skill.
- The description above is the judgment fallback for a phrasing the pattern misses.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add itw-creative-works/workkit/checkpoint@sha256:3d646350d2317af2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.7cc77fa, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_pfz746ykumhflye7)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Sep 4, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 6 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261019.7cc77fa latest | 2026-10-19 | 7cc77fa | 6,714 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261017.fbe4bcf | 2026-10-17 | fbe4bcf | 6,603 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261011.c366f48 | 2026-10-11 | c366f48 | 6,487 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.6dde440 | 2026-09-25 | 6dde440 | 6,424 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.e9e9cf4 | 2026-09-24 | e9e9cf4 | 6,531 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.50e13d0 | 2026-09-11 | 50e13d0 | 6,449 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260910.7ac1ee5 | 2026-09-10 | 7ac1ee5 | 5,446 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260904.173ebb9 | 2026-09-04 | 173ebb9 | 4,937 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6714 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
itw-creative-works/workkit · 4 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pfz746ykumhflye7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=itw-creative-works/workkit/checkpoint GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3d646350d2317af24abbd96e6f58cae9399911deed07c6a9cad8753d6a17b0c7
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