From nightowl
Rouse from the roost — resume where you left off by loading the latest /roost handoff. Use when the user types /rouse, says good morning, asks to pick up where they stopped, resume yesterday's work, or "what was I doing".
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/nightowl:rouseThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
The counterpart to `/roost`. Load the most recent handoff, check what (if anything)
The counterpart to /roost. Load the most recent handoff, check what (if anything)
changed overnight, and tee up the next step — so the user starts the day already
oriented instead of re-reading their own code.
Same bird, dawn instincts. Three traits, three steps.
Tube-shaped eyes gather every scrap of light to make a picture in near-dark. Do the same: reconstruct a full session from one sparse handoff file.
Look in .nightowl/ in the current project for handoff-*.md and pick the newest
by filename. Names are handoff-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM.md (the -HHMM means a day can
hold more than one), and both date and time sort lexically, so the last line is the
newest:
ls -1 .nightowl/handoff-*.md 2>/dev/null | sort | tail -1
If none exists, say so plainly — "No handoff found in .nightowl/. Nothing to
resume; run /roost tonight to leave yourself one." — and stop.
Read it. Pay attention to Where I left off, Cache, Pellet, Open / next steps, Gotchas, and Resume command. The Cache tells you what in-flight work to recover; the Pellet tells you which approaches are already dead — don't re-attempt them.
An owl pivots its head most of the way around without moving its body. Use both directions:
Look back. The repo may have moved since the handoff was written. In a git repo, check:
git status --short
git log --oneline -5
Compare against the handoff. Call out drift explicitly: commits that landed after the handoff, files now dirty/clean that weren't, a branch that changed. If something in the handoff is now stale (e.g. "next step: finish X" but X was already committed), say so — don't blindly trust the note.
Look forward. Recover the Cache (is that stash / WIP edit still there?) and confirm the Pellet's dead ends are still walls before you point at the next step.
Offset ears triangulate prey to an exact spot in total dark. Land the brief on one exact next move, not a vague direction. Keep it short, skimmable:
Then offer to fly — ask if they want you to begin on the top next step (or run the handoff's Resume command). Don't auto-run it — wait for go.
/roost — that's what writes the handoff this one reads..nightowl/.Guides creation, editing, and verification of skills for AI coding agents using test-driven development with subagent scenarios. Use when authoring or debugging skills.
npx claudepluginhub tkrisztian95/nightowl-claude-plugin --plugin nightowl