How does Session Initializer improve my workflow?

It provides a high-level summary of your project status, pending tasks, and long-term goals as soon as you start a Claude session, eliminating the need for manual context-gathering.

Can I track multiple projects with this skill?

Yes, the skill is designed to identify and report uncommitted changes across your active project directories to ensure you have a complete overview of your local git state.

How do I configure this skill in Claude Code?

The skill can be integrated by updating your settings.json to include the session-initializer hook, replacing standard load scripts for a more comprehensive startup experience.

Does this replace my current todo manager?

It is designed to complement your existing workflow by automatically loading your active task list from previous sessions directly into Claude's current context.

What is the PhD Readiness score?

It is a customizable metric designed for academic researchers to track progress toward their defense, publication, or graduation milestones within their coding environment.

Session Initializer

Name: Session Initializer
Author: astoreyai

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生产力与工作流

Provides instant situational awareness by summarizing project status, academic milestones, and pending tasks at the start of every session.

关于

The Session Initializer is a specialized SessionStart hook designed to eliminate the overhead of context-gathering when starting a new AI-assisted coding session. It generates a unified dashboard that provides a real-time PhD defense countdown, a readiness score, a summary of uncommitted changes across active repositories, and automatically loads persistent tasks. This ensures that both the user and Claude are immediately aligned on project priorities and current technical states, making it an essential tool for developers and researchers managing complex, multi-layered workflows.

主要功能

1 GitHub stars
Unified SessionStart hook for instant situational awareness
Real-time PhD defense countdown and readiness scoring
Persistent task management via automated todo loading
Automated monitoring of uncommitted git changes across active projects
Clean terminal-based visual dashboard for session summaries

使用场景

Auditing local workspace state to prevent overlapping changes or missed commits
Managing academic research milestones alongside daily software engineering goals
Streamlining context recovery when resuming complex multi-repo development tasks

关于

主要功能

1 GitHub stars
Unified SessionStart hook for instant situational awareness
Real-time PhD defense countdown and readiness scoring
Persistent task management via automated todo loading
Automated monitoring of uncommitted git changes across active projects
Clean terminal-based visual dashboard for session summaries

使用场景

Auditing local workspace state to prevent overlapping changes or missed commits
Managing academic research milestones alongside daily software engineering goals
Streamlining context recovery when resuming complex multi-repo development tasks