Continue

• Announce: "Sage → continue." before starting work

Continue Workflow

Resume any active cycle with full context. The user doesn't need to remember which workflow or initiative was in progress.

Step 1: Find the Cycle — run the tool, don't scan

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/tools/manifest.py" resume

One command. It applies the selection rules (active status including blocked, owner exclusion, branch preference) and prints the resume brief: machine fields, plan tasks, git evidence, decisions in force, the previous session's judgment, and the authority order. Same files, same brief.

Manual fallback (no python3 only): scan .sage/work/*/manifest.md for cycles where status: in-progress, paused, or blocked.

One cycle found (Zone 2: Approval)

Sage: Resuming [{title}] — {workflow}, phase: {phase}.
{context summary, verbatim from manifest}
Next step: {next step from manifest}

[C] Continue — pick up where we left off
[S] Status — show me full cycle state before continuing
[X] Different — I want to work on something else

Pick C/S/X, or tell me what you need.

On [C]: Route to the workflow's Auto-Pickup with the resume brief as primary context source. The resuming agent does NOT re-ask questions already resolved — and does not inherit a dead session's hesitation. The authority order (printed with the brief): the live user's instruction outranks recorded decisions; recorded decisions outrank the manifest's judgment prose; evidence outranks everything. A question a recorded decision answers is CLOSED — choosing among options a decision already sanctions is execution, not a new approval: pick, record the choice, proceed.

On [S]: Show full manifest contents (State, Context summary, Decisions, Open questions, Handoff guidance). Then offer [C]/[X].

On [X]: "Describe what you want to work on, or type / to see commands."

Multiple cycles found (Zone 1: Choice)

Sage: Found {N} active cycles:

[1] {title A} — {workflow}, phase: {phase} (updated: {date})
[2] {title B} — {workflow}, phase: {phase} (updated: {date})
[3] Start something new

Pick 1-{N+1}, type / for commands, or describe what you need.

On selection: load that cycle's manifest, route to its workflow.

No cycles found (Zone 4: Open)

Sage: No active cycles found.

Describe what you want to work on, or type / to see commands.

Step 2: Load Context and Resume

The brief already contains the state, the evidence, the decisions in force, and the manifest body. Do NOT re-derive them by hand. Then:

1. Read spec.md and plan.md for the detail of the remaining work
2. Resume at the phase the brief indicates

The resuming agent does NOT re-ask questions the previous agent already resolved — those decisions are in decisions.md. It also does not treat the previous session's judgment as orders: an "open question" or "blocked" claim that a recorded decision answers is CLOSED, and the live user's instruction to continue IS the approval a pending checkpoint was waiting for.

Routing

/continue reads the workflow field in the manifest and activates the corresponding workflow's Auto-Pickup:

What /continue Does NOT Do

• Does not dispatch parallel lanes itself (the resume brief LISTS open lanes from the manifest's lanes: block with the harvest path; acting on them is the build workflow's job)
• Does not replace decisions.md (manifest decisions are a subset)
• Does not replace handoff fields in artifact frontmatter
• Does not auto-save on crash (manifest may be stale if session died unexpectedly — fallback to artifact-scanning still works)

Rules

• /continue reads the generated resume brief as PRIMARY context source
• Do NOT ignore the brief and re-scan artifacts from scratch
• Phase routing comes from the manifest's machine fields; its judgment prose (context summary, open questions, handoff) is context, NOT orders
• Agent MAY additionally read artifacts for detail
• If manifest doesn't exist but artifacts do, route to the workflow's Auto-Pickup which will use file-scan fallback