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# /rouse — wake up and pick up where you left off The counterpart to `/roost`. Load the most recent handoff, check what (if anything) changed overnight, and tee up the next step — so the user starts the day already oriented instead of re-reading their own code. Same bird, dawn instincts. Three traits, three steps. ## Steps ### Night vision — see from almost nothing Tube-shaped eyes gather every scrap of light to make a picture in near-dark. Do the same: reconstruct a full session from one sparse handoff file. Look in `.nightowl/` in the current project for `handoff-*.md` and pick the newest by filename. Names are `handoff-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM.md` (the `-HHMM` means a day can hold more than one), and both date and time sort lexically, so the last line is the newest: ```bash ls -1 .nightowl/handoff-*.md 2>/dev/null | sort | tail -1 ``` If none exists, say so plainly — "No handoff found in `.nightowl/`. Nothing to resume; run /roost tonight to leave yourself one." — and stop. Read it. Pay attention to *Where I left off*, *Cache*, *Pellet*, *Open / next steps*, *Gotchas*, and *Resume command*. The **Cache** tells you what in-flight work to recover; the **Pellet** tells you which approaches are already dead — don't re-attempt them. ### 270° head swivel — scan back and forward An owl pivots its head most of the way around without moving its body. Use both directions: - **Look back.** The repo may have moved since the handoff was written. In a git repo, check: ```bash