Have a coding agent read your recent git history and remind you what you were doing and where you left off.
Why it works: Pointing the agent at the diffs (not just commit messages) and asking for the in-flight thread is what turns a log dump into an actual re-orientation.
This is a message template. Fill in the blanks below, then paste it into the chat.
I’m coming back to this project and need to remember where I left off. Read the git history and catch me up.
How far back: [e.g. “the last 2 weeks”, “since the v0.3 tag”, “the last 15 commits”]
Branch: [branch name, or “current”]
Please:
Run the git commands you need (log, show, diff, status) to see what actually changed, not just the commit messages, which often lie
Summarize what I was working on, grouped by theme rather than commit by commit
Tell me the state of the most recent work: finished, in progress, or left mid-change
Flag anything unfinished or abandoned: a WIP commit, uncommitted changes, a TODO I left, a branch that has diverged
Surface anything that looks off: a commit message that doesn’t match its diff, a reverted change, a half-applied refactor
End with the one thing I most likely intended to do next, based on the trajectory. If the history is genuinely ambiguous, say so instead of guessing confidently.