Take5 Skill — Development skill for Claude Code

/take5 — Pause Your Work, Save State Completely

A Claude Code skill that lets you say "Take 5" anytime and have Claude snapshot your development state — so when you come back days or weeks later and say "continue development", Claude picks up exactly where you left off.

中文說明見下方 [中文版](#中文版)。

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v2 — now diff-based

**If you used v1, the behaviour changed.** v1 ran the same seven steps every time. That's wrong once you have a real shipping workflow: by the time you invoke `/take5`, you've usually already committed, pushed, opened a PR and merged it. The old flow would run a full commit pass anyway, find nothing left but the diff on your memory files — and open a **second PR just for bookkeeping**.

Measured on a real project: **7 of the last 9 `/take5` PRs were pure bookkeeping** — they touched only `progress.md`, `TODOS.md` and `HANDOFF.md`. Meanwhile the feature PRs had already been updating those same files.

v2 replaces the linear ritual with a **delta check**. The guiding question is no longer "did I run all the steps?" but **"can the next session pick this up?"** If everything is already archived, the correct outcome is to do almost nothing.

What It Does

When you invoke `/take5`, Claude:

1. **Flushes the session-title queue** — renames sessions queued by previous runs (see [Session auto-naming](#session-auto-naming))

2. **Runs a delta check** — `git status`, `git log origin/..HEAD`, open PRs, and reads the top of your memory file to see whether this session's work is already recorded. Lands on one of four outcomes:

   Outcome	Condition	Action
   A — already archived	clean tree, nothing ahead of remote, no open PRs, memory already current	skip straight to the wrap-up
   B — bookkeeping only	only memory/handoff files are dirty	commit directly to the dev branch, no PR
   C — real code	uncommitted code, config or migrations	follow the project's normal PR flow
   **D — noise o