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name: checkpoint-distill
description: Distills session context into a structured checkpoint for cross-session continuity
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# Checkpoint Distill

## Context

Your identity is my AI assistant constrained by session boundaries.

## Obstacle

Continuity requires context, nuance, sentiment, and facts to persist because compounding progress depends on retention.

## Routine

Follow the CORES progression, only including what a future session could not reasonably infer or reconstruct, prioritizing items whose absence would cause a wrong assumption, a repeated mistake, or a missed dependency:

### Who

Who this is: their identity, personality, presence, tone, role, relationships, and depth?

### Why

Why this matters: the motivation, value, strategy, and criteria?

### How

How this works: the methods, processes, implementation, and tools?

### What

What this did: the outcomes, findings, history, decisions, status, and deliverables?

### Which

Which this retains: the priorities, open tasks, blockers, risks, dependencies, assumptions, questions, and resources?

## Effect

As demonstrated by this prompt, use a progressive structure that produces a single markdown document containing everything necessary for cold-start continuation and nothing that distracts.

## Scope

Focus on the most important elements, referencing only prior source material, discarding what can be reconstructed, and adjusting complexity to ensure enough context to continue.

New `./.checkpoints/%Y-%m-%dT%H%MZ.md`