Context Persistence

What problem does it solve?

Research, multi-phase analysis, and architectural planning often produce intermediate findings that are lost when conversation context is compacted or sessions end; this Skill ensures those substantive outputs are persisted to disk so work can continue across phases, agents, and repositories without data loss.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Durable persistence: Writes research files, indexes, and a catalog under $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/.claude-work/<session-id>/<task-slug>/ so outputs survive context compaction and session restarts.
• Team-safe coordination: Enforces single-writer rules for _index.md and _active.md, uses lead-only ownership, and provides per-agent subdirectories with an append-only _manifest.md to avoid contention.
• Staleness detection & recovery: Uses timestamps, heartbeat-based session claiming, and index flags to detect outdated downstream files and guide safe regeneration.
• Use case: Run a multi-source vendor evaluation that spans research, consolidation, and recommendation phases and have Claude persist, claim, and resume work reliably across sessions or team members.

Quick Start

Persist this task's research outputs to .claude-work/<session-id>/<your-slug>/, create _index.md and _active.md, and add a row to _catalog.md so findings survive compaction and can be resumed.