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Context Manager

Teaches you to handle big or multi-day projects without Cowork losing its place: break the work into stages, save a short handoff note between sessions, and recover cleanly if a session gets cut off. Files are the memory; the session is just the work.

Both — Cowork + Code
How to use it
It explains why long sessions drop earlier details, teaches a decomposition framework (name the end state, list milestones, order by dependency, one session per stage), creates a stage-notes/ folder with a handoff template, and teaches the recovery pattern plus what to include when starting a new stage. Best practice: write a handoff note before any long or complex stage — don’t trust the conversation to hold it.
How to invoke / keep it on
Say “my task is too big for one session”, “Cowork forgot what we were doing”, or “how do I work on something over multiple days?”; or type /context-manager.
20 powerful examples for Melinda Maria
Copy, tweak, make them yours. Just describe the task — Claude loads the skill automatically.
01"I want to build MM’s full Q4 content calendar across several days — break it into stages (themes ’ topics ’ calendar ’ briefs) and set up handoff notes so I never lose my place between sessions."
02"We’re planning the whole ShipBob ’ ShipHero data migration over multiple sittings — help me stage it and save a handoff note after each step so Operations can pick up where we left off."
03"Cowork stopped halfway through reorganizing our Canto asset notes and I’m not sure what it finished — help me survey the files, write a recovery note, and restart from exactly where it stopped."
04"I’m doing a big wholesale account audit across all of NuORDER — set up the stage-notes system so each session has one clear job and I can resume tomorrow without re-explaining everything."
05"I’m rebuilding all our Shopify PDP copy across 120 products over a couple weeks — break it into stages by collection, set up handoff notes, and let me work one collection per session without losing track."
06"We’re standing up our Klaviyo flows from scratch (welcome, abandoned cart, post-purchase, win-back) over several days — stage it, and save a handoff note after each flow so I can pick up cleanly."
07"Cowork stopped partway through reorganizing our Canto asset library and I’m not sure what it finished — help me survey the files, write a recovery note, and restart exactly where it left off."
08"I’m building MM’s annual marketing plan over a week — decompose it (goals ’ channels ’ calendar ’ budgets ’ briefs), set milestones in dependency order, and keep a handoff note between each stage."
09"Set up the stage system for a big competitor-research project — 10 jewelry brands, deep dive each — so each session covers a couple brands and I never re-explain the methodology."
10"We’re doing a full inventory reconciliation between ShipHero and ApparelMagic over multiple sittings — stage it by category and save handoff notes so ops can resume without re-briefing."
11"I’m migrating our reporting from spreadsheets to Cowork workflows across many sessions — break it into stages, document what’s done after each one, and teach me the recovery pattern if a session cuts off."
12"Help me run a multi-day customer-feedback analysis — pull Gorgias themes, cross-reference Shopify orders, write up findings — staged so each session has one clear job with a handoff note."
13"I’m planning our whole Q4 product launch calendar over several days — themes ’ products ’ dates ’ assets ’ per-launch briefs — set up stage notes so I never lose my place."
14"Set up the context system for a big QuickBooks year-end review — break it into stages (revenue, expenses, AR/AP, narrative), and save a handoff note after each so finance can continue another day."
15"We’re auditing every Klaviyo segment and list for cleanup over multiple sessions — stage it, document decisions as we go, and let me resume tomorrow without re-explaining what we found."
16"I’m building a full wholesale line sheet for next season across several sittings — decompose it by category, set milestones, and keep handoff notes so the work survives between sessions."
17"Cowork lost the thread halfway through a long content-calendar build — show me how to recover from the saved files, write a clean handoff note, and continue without starting over."
18"Help me run MM’s big brand-voice documentation project over a week — capture voice, tone, do’s and don’ts, examples — staged with handoff notes so the Design team can pick it up later."
19"Teach me the whole context-management approach on a real big project of mine — name the end state, list milestones, order by dependency, set up the stage-notes/ folder and handoff template, and start stage one."
20"I’m onboarding our whole new sales team into NuORDER workflows over two weeks — stage the training (accounts ’ reorders ’ line sheets ’ follow-ups) and keep handoff notes so each session builds on the last."
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