How do I install the Session Save skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add youkistudios/session-save in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Session Save safe to use?

This skill has not completed SkillMD's automated safety review yet. SkillMD never runs a skill's scripts for you; review the SKILL.md before installing.

Which AI agents work with Session Save?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Session Save free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free. This skill is licensed under MIT.

Who published Session Save?

youkistudios (@youkistudios) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Session Save by youkistudios — Agent Skill

Name: Session Save
Author: youkistudios

Session Save

Save a source-attributed mid-session checkpoint into the shared local Session Save home. Use when the user asks to save, checkpoint, preserve current state, or pause unfinished work. Not an end-of-session close-out.

youkistudios 53327ba 1.9 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

File contents

Session save — checkpoint

Resolve this skill directory as SKILL_DIR. Read CLIENT.md beside this file for the installed client_id. Read the shared home’s GUIDE.md.

Run python3 "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/session_save.py" doctor --client <client_id>. Stop unless ok is true and migration_required is zero.
Locate the current record with locate --client <client_id> --session-id <id> when a real stable host ID exists, otherwise locate --client <client_id> --slug <known-slug>.
If no record exists, run project-list and resolve one exact approved project. Ask on ambiguity; never infer identity from tags or similar keywords. Register a genuinely new project only after explicit confirmation. Then run begin --client <client_id> --project <project> --name <name> --status provisional --gist "Checkpoint saved; run session-tag to tag this session." --require-registered-project. Never invent a verdict or an unconfirmed project. This is the single provisional record.
Run checkpoint-path --client <client_id> --record <record> and write one Markdown checkpoint to the returned unique path. Use ### <HH:MM> — <client_id> followed by Now, Working on, Next, and Watch. Keep it approximately 100–300 words.
Run sync --client <client_id> --record <record> --operation checkpoint-written. Do not change an existing open record back to provisional.
Print the compact checkpoint receipt with the client label and real path.

Checkpoints are immutable event files. Never append to another client’s file, create a second record for the same client session, write a close-out here, or edit _INDEX.md directly.

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