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Continue Claude Work

Rebuilds only the actionable context from local `.claude` session files so you can resume interrupted work without `claude --resume`.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 1,323⑂ 212AI score 9/10Last updated: Aug 8, 2026

What it does

claude --resume replays an entire transcript into your context window, burning tokens on resolved issues. This skill instead parses the session JSONL files in ~/.claude/projects/ and selectively reconstructs only what matters:

  • The latest compact summary (Claude's own distilled understanding)
  • Most recent user requests and assistant responses
  • Errors encountered and unresolved tool calls
  • Subagent workflow state — which agents finished, which were interrupted
  • Session end reason: clean exit, interrupted, error cascade, or abandoned
  • Files touched, MEMORY.md notes, and current git state

The bundled Python script adapts how much it reads to session size and filters operational noise (37–53% of lines in real sessions). After recovery it pushes for a concrete next step plus deterministic verification (tests, type-checks, build) rather than a mere summary.

Who it's for

  • Developers whose long sessions died to ctrl-c, timeouts, or API error cascades
  • Heavy Claude Code users who want to avoid the token cost of --resume
  • Anyone running multi-subagent pipelines that need selective retry
  • People who just want to know "what was I working on yesterday?" and keep going

Examples

  1. Resume a crashed session: "continue work from session abc123" → the script emits a briefing, the interrupted tool calls are retried, and the remaining implementation is finished.
  2. Pick up yesterday's thread: "don't resume, just read the .claude files and keep going" → surfaces the last compact summary and pending tasks, then executes the next step.
  3. Find a session by topic: "search my sessions for the PR review work" → runs --query "PR review" to locate and reconstruct that session's context.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the daymade-claude-code/continue-claude-work folder from the GitHub repo daymade/claude-code-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/continue-claude-work/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r claude-code-skills/daymade-claude-code/continue-claude-work ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills.git
  3. Create the skills folder if needed: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill in: cp -r claude-code-skills/daymade-claude-code/continue-claude-work ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify Python 3 is available with python3 --version (the extraction script requires it).
  6. Restart Claude Code, then ask "continue work from my last session" or "continue work from session <SESSION_ID>".
  7. Optional: list sessions manually with python3 ~/.claude/skills/continue-claude-work/scripts/extract_resume_context.py --list
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT