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fresh-start

Skill127 starsChanged 5 months agoMITView on GitHub

Continue in a new chat without losing anything — writes a compact handoff to paste into a fresh conversation. Use whenever the user wants to move to a new chat or conversation, hits usage limits, says replies got slow or Claude forgets earlier details, or the conversation has grown long.

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    1. AbdouMoumen/claude-skills-plugin★ 1same name
    2. zach2940/claude-skills★ 0same name

    How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.

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We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

4 rules. About 0 are common, 4 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

  • ≈0

    Common · estimate

    Many files like this have a rule of this kind.

  • ≈4

    Distinctive · estimate

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

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    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

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  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Distinctive:

    Every message re-sends the whole conversation, so a long one uses up limits fast and recalls its early details worse.

    line 9
  2. Distinctive:

    Write it in the user's language, under 300 words, inside one code block so it copies cleanly:

    line 23
  3. Distinctive:

    Cowork: start a new task with the handoff as its first message.

    line 43
  4. Distinctive:

    Never paste whole files, logs or the transcript into the handoff.

    line 48

≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

Keep what fits and drop the rest. Your version, ready for your agents.
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SKILL.md

Fresh start

Every message re-sends the whole conversation, so a long one uses up limits fast and recalls its early details worse. A new conversation that starts from a short handoff costs a fraction and stays sharp.

When to offer it

  • The user asks to start over, hits a limit, or says replies got slow or forgetful.
  • The conversation is clearly long: many long turns, large pasted files or documents. Offer it once, in one sentence, at a natural break. Don't interrupt a short conversation or a task that is nearly done.

The handoff

Write it in the user's language, under 300 words, inside one code block so it copies cleanly:

  1. Goal — one line.
  2. Decisions so far — bullets, each with its reason in a few words.
  3. Current state — what exists now: files, drafts, versions, results. Quote only short snippets that the next step needs; name everything else.
  4. Next step — the very next thing to do, then any open questions.
  5. Must not be lost — names, numbers, constraints, preferences, things that were tried and failed.

Then give the saving in one line, as an estimate: "This conversation is about 60K tokens; the handoff is about 500, so each message in the new chat re-sends under 1% of what it does here." Then tell the user: open a new conversation, paste the block, and continue.

On each surface

  • claude.ai chat: a new chat with the pasted handoff. In a Project, the project's files stay available, so the handoff can just name them.
  • Cowork: start a new task with the handoff as its first message.
  • Claude Code: /compact keeps working in place and is usually enough. For a clean break, /clear and paste the handoff. /cco task patch keeps structured task state across /compact automatically.

Never paste whole files, logs or the transcript into the handoff.

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