Read Summary — Documentation skill for Claude Code
Dump the live working-summary doc for this repo — cc/_working_summary.md, the.
How to install Read Summary
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/mike-byrne-ai-espalier-harness-read-summary.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mike-Byrne-AI/espalier-harness/HEAD/.claude/commands/read-summary.md -o ~/.claude/commands/mike-byrne-ai-espalier-harness-read-summary.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Read Summary does
Dump the live working-summary doc for this repo — `cc/_working_summary.md`, the always-current "pick up where we left off" picture (an exact mirror of Claude Code's post-compaction summary plus the espalier resume index), rewritten at every session boundary so it is never stale.
python tools/cc/read_summary.py "$@"
With no arguments it prints the live doc — the same picture Claude already has on tap; this command dumps it to the transcript so the operator can inspect it. If it repo
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