# Update Intent Breadcrumbs

> Updates standardized intent files (NEXT.md, STATE.json) to maintain context across agent sessions.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-sounder25-foundational-agent-skills-05-update-breadcrumbs`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Sounder25](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/sounder25)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [Sounder25](https://github.com/Sounder25)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Sounder25/Foundational-Agent-Skills/tree/main/05_update_breadcrumbs

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-sounder25-foundational-agent-skills-05-update-breadcrumbs
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# SKILL-005: Update Intent Breadcrumbs

## Overview

Agents often lose context between sessions. This skill enforces a standard "breadcrumb" trail by creating or updating `NEXT.md` (human readable) and `STATE.json` (machine readable) in the workspace root.

## Trigger Phrases

- `update breadcrumbs`
- `save state`
- `update next steps`
- `checkpoint workspace`

## Inputs

| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|-----------|------|----------|---------|-------------|
| `--status` | string | No | `active` | `active`, `blocked`, `paused` |
| `--objective` | string | No | - | Current high-level objective |
| `--next-steps` | string[] | No | - | List of immediate next tasks |
| `--blockers` | string[] | No | - | List of blocking issues |

## Outputs

1. Updated `NEXT.md`.
2. Updated `STATE.json`.

## Preconditions

1. Valid workspace root.

## Safety/QA Checks

1. Preserve existing content in `NEXT.md` (append/update rather than overwrite if possible, or use smart replacement).
2. Validate JSON syntax for `STATE.json`.

## Implementation

See `update_breadcrumbs.ps1`.

## Integration

```powershell
.\skills\05_update_breadcrumbs\update_breadcrumbs.ps1 -Status "active" -Objective "Fix EELS tests" -NextSteps "Run pytest", "Fix bugs"
```

## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [Sounder25](https://github.com/Sounder25)
- **Source:** [Sounder25/Foundational-Agent-Skills](https://github.com/Sounder25/Foundational-Agent-Skills)
- **License:** Apache-2.0

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

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-sounder25-foundational-agent-skills-05-update-breadcrumbs
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/sounder25
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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