Continuity Prune — Development skill for Claude Code
Propose prunes for continuity state that has gone stale or over-budget.
How to install Continuity Prune
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/chadthornton-claude-continuity-continuity-prune/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/chadthornton-claude-continuity-continuity-prune && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chadthornton/claude-continuity/HEAD/commands/continuity-prune.md -o ~/.claude/skills/chadthornton-claude-continuity-continuity-prune/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Continuity Prune does
name: continuity-prune description: Propose prunes for continuity state that has gone stale or over-budget. Lists candidates with reasons; you confirm before anything is removed. Use when decision files have grown past ~30 lines, when features are parked/absorbed, or when the board feels cluttered. allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Glob, AskUserQuestion
Continuity Prune
Keep continuity state small and true. This command finds decisions, features, and notes that have likely outl
Alternatives in Development
- Add Chart — Renamed → /portaljs-add-chart 2.3k ★
- Obsidian Learn — Review vault learnings, prune stale ones, surface active patterns — the vault's lessons compound or expire 277 ★
- Grok Files — List, prune, or gc Grok (xAI) uploaded files 135 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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