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/1 — resurrection after a crash ("where were we + is everything working")

The operator's pain: the session died mid-work (a crash / the computer went off) → the new session is empty. Before: remember by hand, then separately fire /arch, /sync-check, /mcp, then work out "where did we stop". Now it is one word: /1 (or /!).

What this is NOT: /retro is for a CLEAN end of session (inventory of what was built → routing to homes → /compact). After a sudden crash there is nothing left to package, the context is already gone → you need resurrection, NOT /retro. Two different tools.

3 steps (run them in order, report as one panel)

Step 1 — RECALL: where we were (0 tokens, deterministic)

The TurnState black box writes EVERY turn into SQLite (a Stop hook), and it survives any crash. Read the last turns:

python "$IMPORTS_ROOT/turnstate/turnstate_show.py" --n 12

From the output pull out: what the operator asked for last · which files were touched · which DECISIONS were made · the next step. That is "where we were cut off". (Flags: --stats, --session <id>, --n N.)

⚠️ Fallback if the box is EMPTY (turnstate_show.py --stats shows turns: 0 — it happens when the Stop hook hasn't fired yet after a Claude Code restart; see [[crash-recovery-command]]): do NOT say "there is no data". Derive "where we were" from the LAST session — its full seed is already assembled in step 3 (_Dashboards/sessions-md/_continue/<cli>.seed.md): read the TAIL of that file (the last 1-2 human→assistant exchanges) and pull the task plus the last step out of them. So with an empty box, step 1 leans on the result of step 3.

Step 2 — HEALTH PING: is everything alive (green/red)

Three fast deterministic checks:

python "$IMPORTS_ROOT/arch/arch_status.py"
powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "$IMPORTS_ROOT/sync_check\sync_check.ps1"

MCP — IN-SESSION ONLY (⚠️ NOT claude mcp list and NOT a second Telethon client → AUTH_KEY_DUPLICATED logs the account out; memory [[mcp-health-check]]): fire one cheap read call per live server — Telegram mcp__telegram__get_me (expect the work account), WhatsApp mcp__whatsapp__get_my_profile, n8n mcp__n8n__n8n_health_check. If a server's tools are missing from the session, it never loaded (diagnostics live in /mcp).

Step 3 — FULL PICKUP: the whole history into the clipboard

Assemble this machine's previous human session into a seed → the clipboard (the /resume-last engine):

python "$IMPORTS_ROOT/claude_sessions/continue_session.py" --last

Tell the operator: "Open a New session and hit Ctrl+V — you get the whole conversation back." If it prints clipboard: FAILED, the seed is on disk at _Dashboards/sessions-md/_continue/<cli>.seed.md.

What to reply with (one panel + 🧒)

🔄 Resurrection
📍 Where we were: <1-2 lines from TurnState — the task, the last file/decision, the next step>
💚 System: arch <✅/⚠️/🔴> · sync <✅/⚠️/🔴> · mcp <tg ✅ / wa ✅ / n8n ✅>
📋 The previous session's full history is in the clipboard (New session → Ctrl+V).
➤ Continue from: <the next step>?

Then a 🧒 "In plain words" line (memory [[eli5-always]]).

Boundaries

• READ-ONLY. It sends nothing, edits no live data, and does not repair sync/MCP — it only READS the black box and the status scripts, and writes a seed file + the clipboard. Fixing a red light is /arch / /sync-check / /mcp separately.
• The skill's name is 1, so /1 works natively; /! is an alias trigger (a special character can't be a folder name): when you see /!, run this same skill.
• On Macs: python3; with a non-standard vault path — env CLAUDE_VAULT_ROOT=<...>.

Canon

Memory [[crash-recovery-command]]. Building blocks: [[turnstate-ledger]] (the black box), [[claude-desktop-sessions-per-account]] (continue_session), [[system-architect]] (/arch), syncthing-desktop-laptop-sync (/sync-check), [[mcp-health-check]] (/mcp). Paired with the SessionStart hook session_resume_hook (that one shows the previous session at startup on its own — this one gathers recall + health + full history on command).

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About & contact

Built and battle-tested at Palo Alto AI Research Lab — a fleet of Claude Code machines running 24/7 as a second brain and synthetic cofounder. Every skill here survived real production use before publication.

• 📦 All 101 skills: https://github.com/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit
• 👤 Author: Anton Dziatkovskii — Telegram @tonydzi · WhatsApp +1 341 222 9178 · X @Tony_Stef_
• 🧪 Engineers: want to test-drive this setup? Message me — I hand out free starter seeds to engineers who test and report back. Custom skill requests welcome.