session-handoff is agent-read markdown (skill) from upex-galaxy/agentic-qa-boilerplate: Compact an entire agent session into a handoff document so a NEW session resumes exactly where this one stopped, as if the context window had been extended rather than reset. Use when the context window is getting high (default threshold ~500k tokens, beyond which the model degrades and starts inventing), when work must continue past the end of this session, or on any variant of: hagamos el handoff, pasa el contexto a otra sesion, continua esto en otra sesion, hand this session over, continue th.
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What the file says
# Session Handoff
A handoff is **context transplanted, not context summarized**. The successor is not a reader being briefed on someone else's work; it IS this session, with a new window. Everything it needs to act must be on disk, addressable, and true at the moment it reads.
The skill is small on purpose. The heavy artifact is the markdown it produces, and the whole contract lives in `.agents/skills/session-handoff/references/capture-contract.md`.
## What this is not
| Looks similar | Actually is | Use |
|---|---|---|
| hand a scoped task to another session and supervise it | orchestration: Task, Dispatch, mailbox, the work comes back | `/orca-orchestration` |
| hand work away and stop caring | ownership transfer of a TASK, one direction, no return | the binary's own `orca-cli` guide |
| remember a decision for next month | durable cross-session fact, project-scoped | Engram (`mem_save`) |
| shrink the window and keep going | harness compaction, lossy, not addressable, not yours to shape | nothing to do |
| **hand the whole SESSION to its own successor** | **this skill** | here |
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GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ihv6ymrl3466wqvh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=upex-galaxy/agentic-qa-boilerplate/session-handoff
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/db9e0b10c1b48c949c5c63231c1e4e7e21fe4d841959168da6fceccddd34e9d2
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