/resume-work - Session State Restoration

Overview

This skill reconstructs session state from handoff artifacts so work can continue without wasting time re-reading files and re-discovering decisions. It is the consumer half of the pause/resume pair — /pause-work creates the artifacts, /resume-work consumes them.

The priority cascade exists because handoff quality varies:

1. HANDOFF.json — Best case. Machine-readable, structured, created by explicit /pause. Contains reasoning context.
2. .continue-here.md — Good case. Human-readable prose. May exist without JSON if user wrote it manually.
3. task_plan.md — Fallback. Records task structure but not session reasoning. Better than nothing.
4. git log + git status — Last resort. Can infer recent activity but cannot reconstruct reasoning or rejected approaches.

Each level down the cascade loses more context, so the skill always starts from the top.

Instructions

Phase 1: DISCOVER