Skill · Slash command

Hand Off to Your Next Session

A slash command that turns a session into a note the next one can pick up cold.

TypeSlash command

The session ends — context runs out, the day ends, you switch machines. Tomorrow a fresh session opens with no memory of any of it. So you spend the first twenty minutes re-explaining what you were doing, what already works, and what you were about to try — reconstructing, from your own fading memory, the state the last session knew perfectly.

An agent's session is disposable; the state it built up is not. The fix is to spend the last thirty seconds of a session capturing that state, so the next one starts from it instead of from scratch. Make it a command, so you never have to remember to:

✕ Without the command

Session ends, the context is gone with it

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Next session opens blind

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Twenty minutes re-deriving where you were

✓ With the command

One command dumps the state in thirty seconds

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Next session reads it cold

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Picks up exactly where this one stopped

Save it under .claude/commands/ and run it before you close a session — or before the context compacts. It's worth the most exactly when work spans more than one sitting: the long migration, the multi-day feature, the thing you hand to someone else. Keep the note short enough to read in one breath — state, not narration.

Save under .claude/commands/

---
description: Summarize this session into a handover note for the next one
---
Write a concise handover note for whoever picks this up next — a fresh session, or someone else:
- **Done**: what changed this session, in a line or two.
- **State**: what works now, and what is half-finished.
- **Next**: the single next action, concretely.
- **Gotchas**: anything that will trip up the next session.
Keep it short enough to read in thirty seconds. State, not narration — skip the thought process.

Prefer your agent install it?

Add this rule to my CLAUDE.md, verbatim:

---
description: Summarize this session into a handover note for the next one
---
Write a concise handover note for whoever picks this up next — a fresh session, or someone else:
- **Done**: what changed this session, in a line or two.
- **State**: what works now, and what is half-finished.
- **Next**: the single next action, concretely.
- **Gotchas**: anything that will trip up the next session.
Keep it short enough to read in thirty seconds. State, not narration — skip the thought process.