Session recap

Skill claude-hangar/claude-hangar/core/skills/session-recap

Production-grade configuration management for Claude Code. Hooks, agents, skills, multi-project orchestration.

Install

npx -y skills add claude-hangar/claude-hangar --skill session-recap

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Summarize the pre-compact snapshot produced by the PreCompact hook into a human-readable recap. Equivalent to Claude Code's `/recap` but driven by Hangar snapshots so it works across sessions even without telemetry. Use when: "recap", "where did we stop", "what was going on", "session summary", "catch me up", "session-recap".

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/session-recap

Converts the Hangar pre-compact snapshot into a short human-readable summary. Complements Claude Code's native /recap (v2.1.108+) by surviving compaction, session-end, and handoff boundaries.

Data sources (in order)

${TEMP}/claude-pre-compact-snapshot-<session>.json — pre-compact hook output
.tasks.json — active task list at time of compaction
STATUS.md — project-level status file
HANDOFF.md — explicit handoff note if the user wrote one
git status --porcelain + git log --oneline -5 — recent repo activity

If no snapshot exists, fall back to sources 2–5 and mark the recap as "live" rather than "restored".

Output modes

`brief` (default)

Session recap — <timestamp>
Branch: <branch>    Uncommitted: <N files>
Last commit: <sha> <subject>
Active tasks (<N>):
  - <task 1 subject>
  - <task 2 subject>
Next: <recommended next action from STATUS.md or last in-progress task>

`full`

Brief output + last 5 commits, uncommitted file preview, HANDOFF.md inline, STATUS.md inline.

`tasks-only`

Just the active task list with status indicators. Use when pivoting between features.

Behavior

Never mutates files — read-only recap
Never invokes other agents — pure data aggregation
Exits cleanly when no snapshot exists (fallback to live state)
Recap is plain markdown, safe to quote back to the user