/resume

description: "Resume an interrupted ContentForge pipeline run from its last checkpoint. \"pick up where the pipeline stopped\""
argument-hint: "[run-id] (omit to pick the latest in-progress run for the active brand)"

Resume Interrupted Pipeline

> **Script location.** If your host does not set `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}`, the scripts are in this plugin's `scripts/` folder, next to `skills/`. Run them with Python 3.10 or newer: `python`, or `python3` where `python` is not found (macOS, many Linux systems).

Pick up a `/contentforge:create-content` run that stopped before Phase 8 finished — instead of restarting from scratch, load the run manifest and continue from the next phase (or the pending rework target).

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Trigger

User runs `/contentforge:resume` (with optional `run-id` argument). Also surface this command in any error message when a pipeline run terminates abnormally.

What this fixes

ContentForge's 10-phase pipeline is long-running. If the underlying agent session terminates partway through (context-window exhaustion, network blip, user cancels, machine sleeps), the in-memory Phase 1-N outputs disappear. Every phase that passes its quality gate writes its output to `~/.claude-marketing/{brand-slug}/runs/{run_id}/` via `scripts/checkpoint-manager.py`, so a fresh session can reload those artifacts and skip the phases that already completed.

Process

Step 0: Cross-session checkpoint download (Cowork only)

Before listing local runs, check if we're in Cowork+Drive mode — if so, the user might be resuming from a DIFFERENT Cowork session (different sandbox), and the local FS has no record of the run. Pull the run's checkpoint state from Drive first.

python "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/drive-sync-state.py" --action read-config

If `configured: false` OR `environment != "cowork-sandbox"`, skip to Step 1 (local-mode flow).

If `configured: true` AND a Drive MCP is available:

1. Use the Drive MCP to list contents of `{drive_root_folder_name}/_runs/` 2. For each `<run_id>` subfolder, check if it has phase artifacts (`phase-*.md`, `_manifest.json`, `_sync-pending.json`) 3. Identify in-progress runs (manifest exists but `phase_artifacts` doesn't include `phase 8` — i.e., output-manager hasn't completed) 4. For each in-progress run that doesn't yet exist locally at `~/.claude-marketing/{brand-slug}/runs/{run_id}/`:

• Use the Drive MCP to download every file from `{drive_root}/_runs/{run_id}/` into the local sandbox path
• This restores the run's full checkpoint history so Step 2 below can load artifacts normally

5. Tell the user: "Pulled {N} run(s) from Drive for resume eligibility: {run_id list}"

Then proceed to Step 1.

Step 1: Pick the run to resume

If the user supplied a `run-id`, use it directly. Otherwise list the in-progress runs for the active brand and either auto-pick the most recent or ask the user to choose if there's ambiguity.

# Auto-pick the most recent in-progress run for the active brand
python "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/checkpoint-manager.py" resume --brand "{active_brand}"

# Or with an explicit run id
python "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/checkpoint-manager.py" resume --brand "{active_brand}" --run-id "{run_id}"

# List all runs (use when the user wants to choose among several)
python "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/checkpoint-manager.py" list --brand "{active_brand}"

The `resume` action returns the status of the selected run, including `completed_phases`, `remaining_phases`, `next_phase`, `pending_rework` (if a reviewer-ordered loop was interrupted), the run `meta` (keyword, audience, word-count target, tone), and the absolute paths of every saved artifact.

If there are no in-progress runs, say so and offer to start a fresh `/contentforge:create-content`. Do NOT silently start a new run.

Step 2: Reload the manifest — then only what the next phase needs

1. **Reload `run.json`** and reconstruct the original-requirements block from it: topic, content type, brand, plus the `meta` fields (**keyword, audience, word-count target, tone**). These are required by downstream phases (Phase 6 needs the keyword; Phase 3 needs the word-count target) — do not proceed without them. 2. **Determine the resumption target:**

• If `pending_rework` is present, the next step is the **rework target phase** with the stored reviewer feedback — NOT the next un-checkpointed phase. Honor the recorded loop counts (max 2 per edge, 5 total still apply).
• Otherwise, the next step is `next_phase`.

3. **Load only the artifacts the target phase contractually reads**, per the Pipeline Contract table in [skills/contentforge/SKILL.md](../skills/contentforge/SKILL.md). Pass all other completed-phase artifacts **by path only** — do not reload their contents into context.

# Example: resuming at Phase 4 — load only its contracted inputs
python "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/checkpoint-manager.py" load \
    --brand "{active_brand}" --run-id "{run_id}" --phase 3
python "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/checkpoint-manager.py" load \
    --brand "{active_brand}" --run-id "{run_id}" --phase 2

Do not re-execute earlier phases, and do not reload every artifact "just in case" — that recreates the context exhaustion that killed the original run.

Step 3: Continue the pipeline from the resumption target

Re-enter the contentforge skill's **Required Per-Phase Workflow** at the target phase: invoke the phase's qualified subagent (see the Pipeline Contract table for `subagent_type`, inputs, and gate), passing artifact paths + the ≤10-line summary + brand-profile path