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name: session-pickup
description: "Resume or take over a prior agent's in-flight work. Use for 'take over this', 'resume this conversation', 'continue from a transcript path', 'you're taking over', 'pick up where X left off', a cloud-agent URL handoff, or a pushed branch you're meant to continue."
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# Session pickup

Standalone skill. Do not require `/poteto-mode` first.

Read `../pstack-harness/SKILL.md` before locating transcripts or launching a subagent.

**You own the resume point. Read the prior trail, don't redo it.** For "take over this", "resume this conversation", "continue from <transcript path>", "you're taking over", "pick up where X left off", a cloud-agent URL handoff, or a pushed branch you're meant to continue.

A pickup is inheritance. The prior agent already paid the cost of reading the code, running the repros, making the design choices. Redoing loses the bias check and burns context. Resist the urge to re-derive; read.

1. Locate the prior trail through the active harness's session metadata or documented storage, a remote-agent URL, or a pushed branch. Stay inside the active workspace and never glob across another project's chats. Read the metadata overview and last messages first, then scan back for the decision points. Parse a long transcript in a subagent and keep the reduced timeline in the main thread (the **principle-guard-the-context-window** skill). If transcripts are unavailable, use the branch, PR, decision trail, and current conversation, then name the gap.
2. Reconstruct operational state. The branch and worktree, what already landed (`git log`, `git diff` against the base), the open todos, the decisions made. The prior trail is authoritative input. Resist the bias to re-derive it.
3. Diff done vs pending. Compare what shipped against what was planned, name the resume point, do not re-run the prior repro or redo completed work. A "let me verify from scratch" pass is the tell that you're treating the trail as untrustworthy when it's actually authoritative.
4. Continue the remaining work and pick the verdict: continue the execution, ship a finished recommendation, ratify or override a prior conclusion, or postmortem a failed run. Pickup ends here; remaining work owns the rest.
5. Verify the inherited claims against the original goal on the real artifact (the **principle-prove-it-works** skill). A passing prior self-report is not the proof.

**Reply:** where the prior agent stopped, what you inherited vs redid (ideally nothing redone), the resume point, and the outcome.