Create Handoff
This handles the context handoff problem when you're hitting token limits or need to pass work between Claude sessions. It creates structured handoff documents in a `thoughts/shared/handoffs/` directory, automatically detecting your session name from existing handoffs or defaulting to "general" if you're starting fresh. The approach is straightforward: it compresses your current context into a concise but thorough summary that another agent can pick up from. Part of the continuous-claude-v3 toolkit with 3.8K stars, which suggests people are actively trying to solve the "I ran out of tokens mid-project" problem. It's basically a formalized way to do what you'd otherwise handle by copy-pasting context into a new chat and hoping you didn't miss anything important.
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Install
$ npx -y skills add parcadei/continuous-claude-v3 --skill create-handoff --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
Files
Create Handoff
You are tasked with writing a handoff document to hand off your work to another agent in a new session. You will create a handoff document that is thorough, but also concise. The goal is to compact and summarize your context without losing any of the key details of what you're working on.
Process
1. Filepath & Metadata
Use the following information to understand how to create your document:
First, determine the session name from existing handoffs:
ls -td thoughts/shared/handoffs/*/ 2>/dev/null | head -1 | xargs basename
This returns the most recently modified handoff folder name (e.g., open-source-release). Use this as the handoff folder name.
If no handoffs exist, use general as the folder name.
Create your file under: thoughts/shared/handoffs/{session-name}/YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM_description.yaml, where:
{session-name}is from existing handoffs (e.g.,open-source-release) orgeneralif none existYYYY-MM-DDis today's dateHH-MMis the current time in 24-hour format (no seconds needed)descriptionis a brief kebab-case description
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- Jun 3, 2026
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