Workflow Rehydrate Skill

Overview

Restore full workflow awareness that survives context auto-summarization without starting a new session.

This skill owns the read/restore side of workflow state — reading current state, reconciling it against git reality, and verifying whether a workflow exists at all. For the write side (init, update, transition, capturing a handoff), see @skills/checkpoint/SKILL.md.

Triggers

Activate this skill when:

• Restoring context after summarization (rehydrate <featureId>)
• The agent has drifted after context compaction (stopped emitting events or using tools proactively)
• Returning to a workflow after a break

State Location

Workflow state lives in the MCP event store, not the filesystem. Use exarchos:exarchos_workflow get to read state and exarchos_view pipeline to discover active workflows. Do not scan ~/.claude/workflow-state/*.state.json — that path is legacy and may be stale or empty.