Work Resume

work-resume

Resumes a paused branch from the stack: lets the user pick, rebases the branch onto the current project base branch (picking up any work that landed since it was paused), resets the WIP commit to restore working state, removes the entry from the stack.

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Path Resolution (run first, always)

Run the bundled context script — no shell variable assignments, no CLAUDE.md scanning:

python3 ~/.claude/skills/project-init/ctx.py

Use WORKSPACE, PROJECT, BASE_BRANCH, CURRENT_BRANCH from the output as concrete strings. BASE_BRANCH defaults to main if not declared in the project CLAUDE.md.

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Step 0 — Resolve paths

Read $PROJECT and $WORKSPACE from CLAUDE.md (see Path Resolution above).

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Step 1 — Read pause stack

STACK_FILE="$WORKSPACE/design/.pause-stack"
[ -f "$STACK_FILE" ] || { echo "Nothing to resume — pause stack is empty."; exit 1; }
grep -q "^- branch:" "$STACK_FILE" || { echo "Nothing to resume — pause stack is empty."; exit 1; }

Parse all entries. Each entry has: branch, issue, paused, wip_project, wip_workspace.

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Step 2 — Pick branch (if stack depth > 1)

If only one entry: auto-select it, no prompt.

If multiple entries, show the stack (most recent last = shown at bottom):

Paused branches:
  1. issue-94-work-lifecycle   #94   paused 3 days ago   "WIP committed"
  2. issue-87-api-refactor     #87   paused 1 week ago   "WIP committed"

Resume which? (1 / 2)

Set $RESUME_BRANCH, $RESUME_WIP_PROJECT, $RESUME_WIP_WORKSPACE from selected entry.

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Step 3 — Verify branch exists

git -C "$PROJECT" rev-parse --verify "$RESUME_BRANCH" &>/dev/null || { echo "⚠️ $RESUME_BRANCH not found in project repo."; exit 1; }
git -C "$WORKSPACE" rev-parse --verify "$RESUME_BRANCH" &>/dev/null || { echo "⚠️ $RESUME_BRANCH not found in workspace repo."; exit 1; }

If missing from either:

• [D] Discard this stack entry and clean up
• [A] Abort — leave state as-is for manual investigation

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Step 4 — Remove entry from stack (on workspace main)

python3 ~/.claude/skills/project-init/stack.py pop /design/.pause-stack 
git -C  add design/.pause-stack
git -C  commit -m "chore: resume  — pop from pause stack"
git -C  push

If push fails: abort — do not switch branches. The stack on main must be updated before switching, to prevent a second session from also resuming the same branch.

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Step 5 — Switch both repos to branch

OUTPUT=$(python3 ~/.claude/skills/work-resume/resume_exec.py checkout-branches "$PROJECT" "$WORKSPACE" branch="$RESUME_BRANCH")
echo "$OUTPUT"
echo "$OUTPUT" | grep -q "CHECKED_OUT=yes" || { echo "⚠️ Branch checkout failed."; exit 1; }

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Step 6 — Rebase branch onto current base branch

OUTPUT=$(python3 ~/.claude/skills/work-resume/resume_exec.py rebase "$PROJECT" "$WORKSPACE" base-branch="$BASE_BRANCH")
echo "$OUTPUT"

if echo "$OUTPUT" | grep -q "ERROR=rebase_conflict"; then
  echo "⚠️ Rebase conflict occurred. Conflicting files:"
  git -C "$PROJECT" diff --name-only --diff-filter=U
  echo ""
  echo "**Stop. Do not proceed.**"
  echo "Resolve conflicts, run 'git -C $PROJECT rebase --continue', then run work-resume again."
  exit 1
fi

echo "$OUTPUT" | grep -qE "REBASED=(yes|skipped)" || { echo "⚠️ Rebase failed."; exit 1; }

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Step 7 — Reset WIP commit

OUTPUT=$(python3 ~/.claude/skills/work-resume/resume_exec.py reset-wip "$PROJECT" "$WORKSPACE")
echo "$OUTPUT"

if echo "$OUTPUT" | grep -q "RESET=yes"; then
  echo "✅ WIP commit(s) reset — changes restored to working tree"
elif echo "$OUTPUT" | grep -q "RESET=no"; then
  echo "ℹ️  No WIP commits found to reset"
fi

The reset restores the working tree to exactly where it was when work was paused.

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Step 8 — Confirm

▶  Resumed:   Issue: #
   Paused  ago
   Rebased onto $PROJECT_BASE_BRANCH  (+N commits incorporated)
   WIP restored: project=  workspace=
   Stack remaining:  paused branch(es)

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Step 9 — Run pre-checks

Run Steps 0, 2, 3, 11 from work-start:

• Step 0: Path resolution (already done)
• Step 2: Platform coherence — re-read platform doc, run five coherence questions
• Step 3: Relevant protocols — scan and read applicable rules
• Step 11: IntelliJ MCPs — call both; hard stop if unavailable

Skip all branch creation steps — the branch already exists.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: mdproctor
• Source: mdproctor/cc-praxis
• License: Apache-2.0

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.