session-resume

name

session-resume

description

Pick up a Barkpark session record left by a previous conversation or a different machine and load it back into context — metadata, milestone events, and the synthesis blocks (current task, progress, key files, decisions, next steps, learnings). Invoke when the user says "resume session <slug>", "continue where I left off", "pick up the other session", "load my last session", "what was I doing", or hands you a `session-...` slug. Warns loudly if the cwd, git repo, or branch don't match what the session recorded — a mismatch usually means you're on the wrong machine or checkout for this handoff. Pairs with the `session` skill, which produced the record.

session-resume — pick up a session left by another conversation/machine

1. Find the slug

If the user gave you a slug (session-YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>), use it directly. Otherwise list recent sessions and ask, or take the newest:

bp doc query session -o json | jq -r '.documents[] | select(.status != "superseded") | ._id'

2. Load it

bp session view <slug> -o json

This returns metadata, the event trail, the synthesis blocks, and rev. Read the blocks into context as the primary "what was happening" summary — that's the whole point of the checkpoint template (current task / progress / key files / decisions / next steps / learnings). Skim the event trail for milestones (pushes, task closes, paper publishes, epic waves) to sanity-check the blocks against what actually happened.

3. Warn on mismatch — don't silently proceed

Compare the session's recorded metadata against where you actually are, and print an explicit warning for every divergence (don't just note it quietly and continue):

[ "$(pwd)" = "<metadata.cwd>" ]                              || echo "WARNING: cwd differs from the session's recorded cwd (<metadata.cwd>) — you may be resuming into the wrong checkout." >&2
[ "$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null)" = "<metadata.git_branch>" ] || echo "WARNING: current branch differs from the session's recorded branch (<metadata.git_branch>)." >&2
[ "$(hostname -s)" != "<metadata.machine>" ]                 && echo "NOTE: resuming on a different machine than the session was opened on (<metadata.machine>) — this is the normal cross-machine handoff case, not necessarily wrong." >&2

A cwd or branch mismatch is a strong signal something's off (wrong worktree, wrong repo clone); a machine mismatch alone is the expected cross-machine handoff and just worth noting.

4. Mark it resumed

This is a metadata-only upsert — do not include a blocks key in this payload, or you'll wipe the synthesis blocks you just loaded (omitting the key preserves them; sending an empty array does not):

WORK="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/bp-session-resume-$$"
mkdir -p "$WORK"
cat > "$WORK/resume.json" <<JSON
{"status": "resumed"}
JSON
bp session publish <slug> --file "$WORK/resume.json"

5. Offer the transcript — never auto-fetch it

If metadata.transcript is set, it's a reference to a mediaAsset doc. Resolve it to a URL and print the URL for the human to open — do not download or dump its contents into context automatically (it's a full transcript, potentially large, and was scrubbed for sharing, not for silent ingestion):

bp doc get mediaAsset <transcript-doc-id> -o json | jq -r '.document.fileInfo.url // .document.content.fileInfo.url // .fileInfo.url'

(The exact envelope key can vary slightly by bp version — fileInfo.url is the field that matters; if none of those paths resolve, print the raw JSON and let the human spot it.) If metadata.transcript is unset, say so plainly — that session was synthesis-only, there's nothing to offer.