Catch up

Give the user, in a minute's reading, what changed, where things stand, and the
calls only they can make.

Done when: every item the user asked about has a current state checked
against Git, the PR, or the files (not against memory alone), and every
decision waiting on the user is listed with a recommendation.

Modes

Pick by the window. "What happened while I was away?" in a running chat is
chat. "Where did I leave off on X?" or a new session is work. With nothing
to decide it, use chat when this conversation has done work since the user's
last message, and work otherwise.

Always

• Check before reporting. Each PR, branch, CI run, and ticket is read in
  its current state, and each number you show is checked against its source.
• Action items are only the user's calls: a product choice, an approval, an
  irreversible step, access you lack. Work you could do yourself is not an
  action item; name it on one line as remaining work.
• Plain words. Call each PR, branch, or agent by a name the user would
  know. Leave out hashes, paths, and counts unless the user needs one to act.

Works with

• Reads: the memory tree (current-state.md, the handoff, next-actions.md),
  Git, PRs, tickets, verify evidence, and session transcripts.
• Hands off: the next move, often to another skill; memory drift to
  /project-memory sync.
• Alone: works from Git and transcripts when there is no memory tree.

Paths in this skill and its references are relative to this skill's directory
(${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}). Outside Claude Code, that is the directory holding this
file, and $0 is the first word after the skill name.