prior-work-retrieval

An agent skill by daymade, from daymade/claude-code-skills. Tags: analysis, research, reuse, review, validation.

What it does

Only for explicit prior-work/reuse/history requests; never for read-only status or inspection. Finds and verifies existing successful work before substantial new production when reuse is materially plausible. Use when the user explicitly references earlier work, existing code/SOPs, history, prior decisions, another project, or says 以前做过, 已有代码, 别重复造轮子, reuse, or retrieve before produce. A mention of current/现有 tests, README, files, implementation, behavior, or validation is not a prior-work request. Do not infer the trigger merely because new work might duplicate something. Do not invoke for current-file inspection, ordinary bug fixes, mechanical verification, or merely because the final answer is a report/summary. Produces a source-verified reuse/adapt/reject receipt; zero hits never prove absence.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill prior-work-retrieval

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills
cp -r claude-code-skills/daymade-claude-code/prior-work-retrieval ~/.claude/skills/prior-work-retrieval

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Source

Repository

daymade/claude-code-skills (all skills from this repository)

Path

daymade-claude-code/prior-work-retrieval/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-20

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