Agent skill

Continue Codex Work

by daymade in daymade/claude-code-skills

Continues interrupted Codex work only after read-codex-history verifies rollout identity and fork/compaction lineage — restores the original outcome, unfulfilled requests, and the next action.

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Install Continue Codex Work

skills CLI
$ npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill continue-codex-work -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install daymade/claude-code-skills continue-codex-work --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/daymade-claude-code/continue-codex-work .claude/skills/continue-codex-work && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
continue-codex-work
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
844 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
103
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Continues interrupted Codex work only after read-codex-history verifies rollout identity and fork/compaction lineage — restores the original outcome, unfulfilled requests, and the next action.

  • Works in 5 steps: Obtain a verified Codex read receipt → Rebuild the continuation contract → Reconcile with current reality → …
  • Given a Codex Session ID
  • SKILL.md covers Entry gate: external takeover,…, Step 1: Obtain a verified…, Step 2: Rebuild the… and Step 3: Reconcile with current…, plus 2 more sections
  • Calls codex

What it does

Continue Codex Work is an agent skill from daymade/claude-code-skills. Continues interrupted Codex work only after read-codex-history verifies rollout identity and fork/compaction lineage — restores the original outcome, unfulfilled requests, and the next action. Use when given a Codex Session ID, asked to pick up a prior Codex run, told Codex was interrupted, fused, compacted or stuck, or asked to take over without codex resume. Not for a conversation Codex already natively resumed.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/native-goal-reconciliation.md`).

The repository describes itself as: Professional Claude Code skills marketplace featuring production-ready skills for enhanced development workflows. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Given a Codex Session ID
  • Asked to pick up a prior Codex run
  • Told Codex was interrupted
  • Asked to take over without codex resume

Example prompts

  • “Use the continue-codex-work skill to continue interrupted Codex work only after read-codex-history verifies rollout identity and fork/compaction…”
  • “/continue-codex-work”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Obtain a verified Codex read receipt
  2. Rebuild the continuation contract
  3. Reconcile with current reality
  4. Execute the business task
  5. Report against the contract

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 91bed2b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • codex

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Continue Codex Work loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 110 tokens; SKILL.md has 844 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~110
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from daymade/claude-code-skills at commit 91bed2b, republished under its MIT licence (© daymade). 844 words, ~1,662 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/continue-codex-work/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
continue-codex-work
description
Continues interrupted Codex work only after read-codex-history verifies rollout identity and fork/compaction lineage — restores the original outcome, unfulfilled requests, and the next action. Use when given a Codex Session ID, asked to pick up a prior Codex run, told Codex was interrupted, fused, compacted or stuck, or asked to take over without `codex resume`. Not for a conversation Codex already natively resumed.
argument-hint
[session-id]

Continue Codex Work

Continue means finish the still-unfulfilled business task. Reading history is a mandatory evidence phase, not the deliverable.

Entry gate: external takeover, not native resume

Current situationAction
Codex itself natively resumed this same conversation, and the restored turns or compaction state are already in the current contextDo not invoke this Skill or read-codex-history. Continue directly from the retained context, then verify current workspace and external state before changing anything.
A new/different Agent context must take over an earlier Codex rollout, or the user identifies another Session ID whose continuity is not already present hereUse this Skill. Step 1's verified history receipt remains mandatory.

A restart is not enough to choose the second row. The deciding fact is whether the current conversation is the host-restored continuation of the same Session, not whether a Codex process was restarted.

Step 1: Obtain a verified Codex read receipt

Invoke daymade-claude-code:read-codex-history for the exact Session ID and request the full chronological Session evidence briefing. If the ID is unknown, use that Skill's inventory or bounded search first.

The receipt must state:

  • prompt-ledger, state-index, and rollout sources used;
  • selected session_meta.id and whether it exactly matches the requested ID;
  • root-to-child fork lineage and exact inherited byte boundaries;
  • selected and inherited chronological user/assistant turns;
  • compacted context, latest plan, end reason, unresolved calls, files, and gaps.

Fail closed on a mismatched rollout, missing child rollout, ambiguous physical copy, missing parent, broken byte boundary, or continuation cue with no recoverable parent objective. Never continue from the “closest” file.

Step 2: Rebuild the continuation contract

Before the first project-changing tool call, fill this internal contract from the read receipt and current-state verification:

FieldEvidence required
Original business outcomeEarliest still-governing human request across inherited and selected timelines
Current explicit requestLatest human request that is not only a continuation cue
Current delivery stage / non-goalsLatest human correction narrowing what to deliver now and what to defer; do not promote the original long-term ambition back above it
Already completedCurrent independent verification, not old Agent narration
Still unfulfilledRequested result without completion evidence
User corrections / do-not-repeatHuman messages rejecting a route, assumption, or output
Proven assets and successful routesExisting code, documents, Skills, outputs, commands, and prior successful experiments
Next direct actionOne action whose success visibly reduces the unfulfilled business result

If the child contains only “继续,” “continue,” or /fork, inherit the task from the verified parent snapshot. A local cue is not a standalone goal.

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Step 3: Reconcile with current reality

  1. Read the current target project's AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md.
  2. Confirm cwd, branch, working tree, relevant files, and external state.
  3. Verify that recorded patches, commits, pushes, downloads, jobs, or Agent outputs actually landed; rollouts record attempted actions too.
  4. Retrieve and reuse prior successful assets before creating a replacement.
  5. For transient failures such as usage limits or service errors, verify whether the original process later resumed and finished before duplicating work. For an existing native Goal, use Native Goal reconciliation to distinguish unfinished business, runtime status, supported recovery and observed automatic continuation. An absent recovery tool in one tool menu is not proof that the live host has no recovery control.
  6. Check what was in flight when the session died. A foreground long task (remote diagnostic, download, build) dies with its session, and its unpersisted output dies with the pipe — the rollout records that the task started, never its result. Treat such a result as not done: probe whether the remote process or its output file survived, and before re-running, give the rerun a detached result-to-disk channel (e.g. remote ( cmd > log 2>&1 </dev/null; echo $? > rc ) & polled through the rc file — prefer setsid/nohup where the target has them, since a pty-backed session can still SIGHUP a bare subshell) so the next interruption cannot take the result again.

Step 4: Execute the business task

Perform the next direct action and close its feedback loop. Reviews, Skill work, infrastructure cleanup, format polish, and extra safety machinery remain subordinate unless they directly unblock the original result or the user explicitly promoted them.

Before every material branch, ask: “If this succeeds, which unfulfilled result in the current authorized stage becomes smaller?” No answer means the branch is not continuation work. A blocked source, login or provider route blocks only dependent work; execute other necessary authorized work before declaring the whole task blocked.

Verify the result at the user's consumption surface: searchable bytes alone do not prove a readable page, and generated suggestions do not prove saved human decisions. Reuse passed checks for unchanged inputs; expand verification only for new changes, failures or unresolved evidence gaps.

Do not run codex resume or codex --continue. Do not overwrite unrelated changes.

Step 5: Report against the contract

  • Recovered goal: exact Session lineage and original business outcome.
  • Executed: actions and independent verification.
  • Now complete: contract rows actually closed.
  • Remaining: unresolved rows and exact blockers.
  • Not repeated: relevant rejected routes deliberately avoided.

Context recovery, parser success, a green review, or a finished subprocess is not by itself successful continuation. The user's business result is the completion unit.

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in daymade-claude-code/continue-codex-work of daymade/claude-code-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/native-goal-reconciliation.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 91bed2b

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Questions about Continue Codex Work

What does Continue Codex Work do?

Continues interrupted Codex work only after read-codex-history verifies rollout identity and fork/compaction lineage — restores the original outcome, unfulfilled requests, and the next action. Continue Codex Work is an agent skill from daymade/claude-code-skills. Continues interrupted Codex work only after read-codex-history verifies rollout identity and fork/compaction lineage — restores the original outcome, unfulfilled requests, and the next action.

When should I use Continue Codex Work?

Continue Codex Work fits situations like: given a Codex Session ID; asked to pick up a prior Codex run; told Codex was interrupted; asked to take over without codex resume.

How do I install Continue Codex Work in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill continue-codex-work -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (daymade-claude-code/continue-codex-work in daymade/claude-code-skills) into .claude/skills/continue-codex-work in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Continue Codex Work in Codex?

Run `npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill continue-codex-work -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (daymade-claude-code/continue-codex-work in daymade/claude-code-skills) into .agents/skills/continue-codex-work in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Continue Codex Work in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill continue-codex-work -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/continue-codex-work, .gemini/skills/continue-codex-work, .github/skills/continue-codex-work and .opencode/skills/continue-codex-work in your project.

What does Continue Codex Work need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Continue Codex Work needs the command-line tools its instructions call (codex).

Does Continue Codex Work access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Continue Codex Work safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Continue Codex Work use?

Continue Codex Work is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Continue Codex Work use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 747 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Continue Codex Work?

daymade (a GitHub user) maintains it in daymade/claude-code-skills, which has 1,444 GitHub stars. The repository holds 103 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: daymade/claude-code-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.