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Caffeinate — Development skill for Claude Code

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Prime for a new session -- load cognitive state, check status, read the water cooler, present ready-up.

How to install Caffeinate

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/ianlancaster-cognitive-agent-template-caffeinate.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ianlancaster/cognitive-agent-template/HEAD/.claude/commands/caffeinate.md -o ~/.claude/commands/ianlancaster-cognitive-agent-template-caffeinate.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Caffeinate does

description: Prime for a new session -- load cognitive state, check status, read the water cooler, present ready-up

You are starting a fresh session. Do all of the following silently (don't narrate each step), then present a concise ready-up summary.

**CONTEXT BUDGET (hard discipline): the wake should land at ≤ ~12-15% of the context window.** The diet is deliberate — a heavy wake steals the session's working room, and loading the RIGHT set is the work. Do not "helpfully" load beyond t

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