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A Claude Code skill that writes a verified HANDOFF.md so a fresh session can resume long-running work without repeating dead ends.
A Claude Code skill that generates a verified HANDOFF.md to enable seamless session handoffs and avoid repeating dead ends.
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A clean bridge between Claude Code sessions.
Long Claude Code sessions rot: context fills up, the model starts forgetting decisions, re-trying approaches that already failed, and describing files that no longer look like that. Starting a fresh session fixes the rot — but throws away everything the old session learned.
handoff writes a verified HANDOFF.md at your project root so the next session picks up exactly where this one left off, without repeating your dead ends.
A messy 3-hour session → /handoff → one clean file the next session resumes from.
git clone https://github.com/ostikwhy-blip/claude-code-handoff-skill.git
cp -r claude-code-handoff-skill ~/.claude/skills/handoff
Start a new Claude Code session — done. No dependencies, no external APIs, no configuration.
cp -r claude-code-handoff-skill your-project/.claude/skills/handoff
End of a session (or when it starts feeling off):
/handoff
Claude verifies the actual state of your repo, then writes HANDOFF.md.
Start of the next session:
resume from the handoff
Claude reads the file, re-checks it against the current repo, surfaces open questions, confirms the plan with you — then continues the work, already knowing what failed last time.
That's the whole workflow. Two commands.
Because that summary is written from a degraded model's memory, at exactly the moment that memory is least reliable. You get confident fiction: tests that "pass" but were never re-run, file descriptions that are twenty edits stale, hallucinated progress.
handoff is built around one rule: nothing goes in the file from memory alone.
Before writing a single line, Claude:
git status, git log, git diff to reconstruct what actually changed — not w# handoff **A clean bridge between Claude Code sessions.** Long Claude Code sessions rot: context fills up, the model starts forgetting decisions, re-trying approaches that already failed, and describing files that no longer look like that. Starting a fresh session fixes the rot — but throws away everything the old session learned. `handoff` writes a **verified** `HANDOFF.md` at your project root so the next session picks up exactly where this one left off, without repeating your dead ends.  *A messy 3-hour session → `/handoff` → one clean file the next session resumes from.* --- ## Install ```bash git clone https://github.com/ostikwhy-blip/claude-code-handoff-skill.git cp -r claude-code-handoff-skill ~/.claude/skills/handoff ``` Start a new Claude Code session — done. No dependencies, no external APIs, no configuration. <details> <summary>Install for a single project instead</summary> ```bash cp -r claude-code-handoff-skill your-project/.claude/skills/handoff ``` </details> ## Use **End of a session** (or when it starts feeling off): ``` /handoff ``` Claude verifies the actual state of your repo, then writes `HANDOFF.md`. **Start of the next session:** ``` resume from the handoff ``` Claude reads the file, re-checks it against the current repo, surfaces open questions, confirms the plan with you — then continues the work, already knowing what failed last time. That's the whole workflow. Two commands. ## Why not just ask Claude to "summarize the session"? Because that summary is written **from a degraded model's memory, at exactly the moment that memory is least reliable.** You get confident fiction: tests that "pass" but were never re-run, file descriptions that are twenty edits stale, hallucinated progress. `handoff` is built around one rule: **nothing goes in the file from memory alone.** Before writing a single line, Claude: 1. Runs `git status`, `git log`, `git diff` to reconstruct what *actually* changed — not w
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