Should I Start Fresh — Development skill for Claude Code
Evaluate whether the current conversation should continue or whether starting a new session would produce better results.
How to install Should I Start Fresh
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/danielrosehill-claude-rudder-should-i-start-fresh/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/danielrosehill-claude-rudder-should-i-start-fresh && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danielrosehill/Claude-Rudder/HEAD/commands/should-i-start-fresh.md -o ~/.claude/skills/danielrosehill-claude-rudder-should-i-start-fresh/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Should I Start Fresh does
description: Evaluate whether the current conversation should continue or whether starting a new session would produce better results argument-hint: "[optional: describe what you're about to ask next]" allowed-tools: []
Evaluate whether the user should continue this conversation or start a fresh one.
What to evaluate
Review the conversation history so far and consider:
- Topic drift — Has the conversation covered multiple unrelated topics? Is the original task complete?
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