Context Catchup

Context Catchup is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by FlorianBruniaux in claude-code-ultimate-guide.

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Install Context Catchup

Copy Context Catchup into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-ultimate-guide/tree/main/examples/skills/catchup ~/.claude/skills/catchup

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-ultimate-guide.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: examples/skills/catchup/SKILL.md in FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-ultimate-guide
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/catchup
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Context Catchup does

Context Catchup restores context after /clear by summarizing recent git commits, uncommitted changes, TODOs, and project state. Use it to quickly rebuild understanding before resuming work.

Context Catchup is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Context Catchup comes from a repository tagged agentic-coding, ai-assistant, ai-coding, ai-pair-programming and ai-security.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Context Catchup

Restore context after /clear - summarize recent work and project state.

Purpose

After clearing context with /clear, use this command to quickly rebuild understanding of:

What was recently modified
Current project state
Outstanding TODOs and issues
Where to resume work

Instructions

Step 1: Git History Analysis

# Recent commits (last 10)
git log --oneline -10

# Files modified in last 5 commits
git diff --stat HEAD~5 2>/dev/null || git diff --stat $(git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD)

# Current branch and status
git branch --show-current
git status --short

Step 2: Recent Changes Summary

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Context Catchup provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/clear
/catchup

Frequently asked about Context Catchup

What else does FlorianBruniaux publish alongside Context Catchup?
Context Catchup is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-ultimate-guide, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Audit Agents Skills, Audit Prose and Audit Whitepapers. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Context Catchup does, and is maintained by FlorianBruniaux in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-ultimate-guide page.
How does Context Catchup compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Context Catchup ranks #461 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Context Catchup against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.