Resume Initiative — Development skill for Claude Code
Show open epic initiatives and the next-up child issue; optionally start work on the next child or adopt a legacy epic into the evergreen shape (--adopt).
How to install Resume Initiative
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/maxdimitrov-agent-issue-tracker-resume-initiative/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/maxdimitrov-agent-issue-tracker-resume-initiative && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maxdimitrov/agent-issue-tracker/HEAD/commands/resume-initiative.md -o ~/.claude/skills/maxdimitrov-agent-issue-tracker-resume-initiative/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Resume Initiative does
description: Show open epic initiatives and the next-up child issue; optionally start work on the next child or adopt a legacy epic into the evergreen shape (--adopt).
/resume-initiative [epic-ref] [--start] [--adopt] [--loop]
Pick up where multi-week initiative work was left off. Invokes the configured backend's `list_open_issues({label: 'epic'})` operation to list open initiatives with their progress, and points at the next-up child issue. Optionally enters the worktree for the nex
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