session-handoff is agent-read markdown (skill) from iuliandita/skills: Write an agent session handoff with current state, decisions, unfinished work, verification, and next steps..
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What the file says
# Session Handoff: Move Context Between Agent Sessions
Compress the current session into a small markdown document another agent session can continue
from. A handoff is a one-way, lossy carry: whatever the next session needs has to be written
down explicitly, because everything else is gone.
The point is to keep each session focused and inside its high-attention context window
instead of dragging one bloated thread forward.
Inspired by Matt Pocock's `/handoff` skill. The failure mode it exists to prevent is
**relitigation**: the next session reopens a decision the current one had already settled,
because the doc recorded *what* was decided but not *why*. Every locked decision carries its
rationale for this reason.
## When to use
- Switching roles across sessions: planner -> implementer, implementer -> reviewer
- Kicking off an AFK or unattended run from a clean context
- Fanning out to parallel sessions that each own one slice of the work
- Prototyping or spiking in a throwaway session without polluting the current one
- The current context window is full or degrading and you want a fresh start with only essentials
…
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Source
GitHub
iuliandita/skills · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5wkkl7oidsl77h27
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iuliandita/skills/session-handoff
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a65e9ddb5a905596e6673c5f4eed1c5f10a0082087e75fadb27faaa71c1d822f
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