Write a start-here handoff document at the end of a work session capturing state, decisions, next steps, and gotchas, so the next session (or the next person) resumes in minutes instead of re-deriving everything. Use when the user says "wrap up", "handoff", "end of session", "write a handoff note", or "where did we leave off" at the start of a new session.
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# Session Handoff
Context dies between sessions. The next session re-reads files, re-discovers decisions, and re-hits the same trap that cost an hour last time. This skill freezes the session's working state into one document built to be read cold.
## Step 1: Mine the session
Extract from the current conversation, not from memory of what should have happened:
- **What was accomplished**: only things actually finished and verified. Half-done work is listed as half-done.
- **Decisions made and why**: especially decisions that reversed an earlier approach. The "why" is the part the next session cannot reconstruct.
- **What is in progress**: exact state, which file, which step.
- **Next steps**: concrete and ordered, with the first one precise enough to start typing immediately.
- **Gotchas**: everything that failed and how it was fixed, environment quirks, commands that need specific flags, things that look broken but are fine.
- **Key paths and commands**: the files that matter and the exact commands to run (build, test, deploy, resume).
## Step 2: Write the handoff
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260710.88e305c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_eka7zcxi472mdtzn
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills/session-handoff
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/62f1fac82ef66420474e13b8dad104d9f38034c42afe4d6f90046e85c0578af1
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