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branch-and-checkpoint
smol-machines/smolvmSkill
Saves a running smolvm machine as checkpoints on a schedule, keeps a bounded history, restores any generation in it, pauses and resumes machines without losing running processes, and branches a warm machine into children with a checkpoint of the exact point they started from. Use when a machine's state has to survive the machine; when an agent or a job needs to roll back; when checkpoints must be taken periodically, since smolvm has no scheduler or retention of its own; when fanning a prepared machine out into workers; or when a checkpoint, a pause or a branch fails with an error that names no
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 6,769 stars are split between them (about 677 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 73/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit c925bfd05cf6, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Runs shell commands Common for dev tools. Read the commands it runs.scripts/schedule.sh:42
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onebranch-and-checkpoint smol-machines/smolvm · Skill | 73 | ★ 6.8k | ≈156 always | 16d ago |
| git-checkpoint agentscope-ai/agentscope-java · Skill Both about checkpoint and roll | 78 | ★ 6.0k | ≈46 always | 16d ago |
| checkpoint pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow · Skill Both about checkpoint and save | 72 | ★ 1.7k | ≈143 always | 1mo ago |
| new-branch EverMind-AI/EverOS · Skill Both about branch | 84 | ★ 14k | ≈20 always | 16d ago |
| git-branch-cleanup gotalab/skillport · Skill Both about branch and branche | 59 | ★ 415 | ≈27 always | 4mo ago |
| branch-integration thiientv/godmode · Skill Both about branch | 56 | ★ 99 | ≈24 always | 2mo ago |