checkpoint-management
Checkpoint-management provides git-backed state preservation during development work by creating tagged commits with metadata before and after significant operations. Use this skill before executing risky refactors, after passing quality checks, or at session boundaries to enable safe rollback to known good states without affecting parallel work.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter /tmp/checkpoint-management && cp -r /tmp/checkpoint-management/library/methodologies/claudekit/skills/checkpoint-management ~/.claude/skills/checkpoint-managementSKILL.md
- Stage all current changes
- Create commit with [CHECKPOINT] prefix
- Tag with claudekit-checkpoint-{timestamp}
- Record metadata: files changed, insertions, deletions
### Restore Checkpoint
- List available checkpoints by tag
- Preview changes that would be reverted
- Restore to selected checkpoint via git reset
- Verify restored state matches checkpoint
## Session Isolation
Checkpoints are session-scoped. Tags created during a session can be cleaned up without affecting other work.
## When to Use
- Before risky refactoring operations
- After passing quality checks (safety checkpoints)
- At the start and end of ClaudeKit sessions
- Before spec execution phases
## Processes Used By
- `claudekit-orchestrator` (session start/end checkpoints)
- `claudekit-safety-pipeline` (safety checkpoints after quality checks)Coordinate Crew (persistent) and Polecat (transient) agents using Gas Town's hook-based work distribution and GUPP principle.
System and API design guidance covering component boundaries, data flow, integration patterns, and scalability considerations.
This skill should be used when the user asks to "find skills in the wild", "assimilate popular workflows", "discover SKILL.md files in repos", "research external skills", "find workflow patterns", "survey the skill landscape", "what skills exist out there", or wants to investigate public repositories for extractable processes, babysitter plugins, and reusable procedural insights. Searches GitHub for SKILL.md files, classifies repos by archetype, and maintains structured research under docs/reference-repos/.
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This skill should be used when the user asks to "babysit issues", "work on assigned issues", "check a5c-agent issues", "process babysitter issues", or wants to find and work on open GitHub issues assigned to a5c-agent in the babysitter repo.