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Coffee Break

  • 184 installs
  • 1 repo stars
  • Updated May 26, 2026
  • camacho/ai-skills

Pause long autonomous agent sessions with structured break checkpoints to reduce drift, context overload, and low-quality rushed outputs.

About

Introduces a coffee-break workflow for AI coding agents that schedules intentional pauses during extended tasks so context stays fresh, errors are caught earlier, and final deliverables remain coherent.

  • Structured agent pause checkpoints
  • Context reset between bursts
  • Reduced autonomous drift
  • Sustainable long-session pacing
  • Quality recovery rituals

Coffee Break by the numbers

  • 184 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • Ranked #2,998 of 16,546 AI & Agent Building skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Jul 28, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
npx skills add https://github.com/camacho/ai-skills --skill coffee-break

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Installs184
repo stars1
Last updatedMay 26, 2026
Repositorycamacho/ai-skills

What it does

Pause long autonomous agent sessions with structured break checkpoints to reduce drift, context overload, and low-quality rushed outputs.

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

Coffee Break

Park work, print resume instructions. Heaviness check first — if memory consolidation is pending, route to /reflect.

1. Heaviness check (route to /reflect if any fires)

  • New feedback_*.md or project_*.md in ~/.claude/projects/<slug>/memory/ with mtime > $SESSION_DIR directory mtime (≈ session-start on CC; on Codex, skip this signal with logged reason no $SESSION_DIR)
  • ai-workspace/MEMORY.md modified in-branch (git status non-empty OR commits since fork)
  • If unsure, ask user: is the branch task complete or paused? If complete, fire.

Any fire → use /reflect

2. Park

0. Note what team position you are in, if any (e.g. swe1, architect, tmp) 1. Refresh .branch-context.md (Finished / Open / Next action / Resumes as) 2. Commit if changed (skip silently if no-commit-primary-worktree.sh blocks — surface the block to user) 3. Push if ahead of upstream

3. Respond

1. Print:

   Parked: <branch> @ <sha>
   Self-resume: /clear then /position <position> --resume

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