handoff
Skill3 starsChanged 6 days agoApache-2.0View on GitHub
Checkpoint main and restart it in a fresh pane now, below the 200K clear line. Use when the owner runs /handoff or says "hand off", "checkpoint and restart", "fresh main". Main session only.
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- glebis/claude-skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- domengabrovsek/agent-configtheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- domengabrovsek/claudetheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
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- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 172 edited versions we read keep these.
1
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
2
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 24
Write ~/.claude/checkpoints/<session id>.md in ONE Write from the fixed template ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/checkpoint.md: every field …
- Distinctive: line 36
Stop hook is the one supported way.
- Very specific: line 39
If this pane is still here at the owner's next prompt, the restart did not finish: a HANDOFF NOT DONE line names why.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 172 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
/handoff
Runs the same checkpoint-and-restart main does at the 200K line
(${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/main-session.md, "Main never compacts"), on demand. Main session
only: in a linked worktree context-clear-stop.sh ignores it.
Session id: ${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID}. If that is not substituted, it is the
newest *.jsonl file name under ~/.claude/projects/<this project>/.
Board when this skill loaded (fill the checkpoint from it; do not re-run it):
bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/board.sh" 2>&1 || true- Finish the step in hand. Start nothing new.
- Write
~/.claude/checkpoints/<session id>.mdin ONE Write from the fixed template${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/checkpoint.md: every field filled or "none", live units with pane handles and task ids, what each waits on and the exact next command, rulings not yet in memory, the queue, gotchas, what was ruled out, how to verify, and what closed since the last checkpoint. Older open items are carried by aCarries open items of: <file>line, never copied. Under 5KB. touch ~/.claude/checkpoints/<session id>.handoff- Tell the owner, in one line: "Handing off: a new main pane opens when this
turn ends, says 'Handoff done' first, and this pane closes once it has
taken over." Then end the turn. Do not type
/clear, and never open a main pane yourself: the plugin's guard refuses a hand-made one, and the Stop hook is the one supported way. It opens the fresh main pane, types the resume prompt there, and closes this pane only after the new one has taken it; a step that fails leaves this pane up as main. - If this pane is still here at the owner's next prompt, the restart did not
finish: a
HANDOFF NOT DONEline names why. Read it to the owner, fix what it names (most often the checkpoint), and end the turn to try again.
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