handofflisted

Use this skill when the user says "hand off", "hand this off", "create a handoff", "branch this to another session", "pass context to next session", "start a new session for X", or invokes /ievo:handoff. Compacts the current conversation into a portable handoff document for a fresh agent session. Solves the context-window degradation problem — reasoning quality drops past ~120k tokens, so instead of /compact (lossy summarization), branch out-of-scope work into a focused parallel session with curated context. Produces a Markdown document with the next session's purpose, relevant context excerpts, suggested iEvo skills, artifact pointers (file paths, PR/issue links), and redacted secrets. Saved to OS temp dir for easy copy-paste into a new session.
ievo-ai/skills · ★ 0 · Data & Documents · score 72

Install: claude install-skill ievo-ai/skills

# Handoff — portable context handoff between agent sessions Produce a self-contained Markdown document that lets a fresh agent session continue work without re-deriving context. The handoff is a curated brief, not a transcript dump. ## When to use - User identifies work that belongs in a separate session ("this is out of scope, let's hand it off") - Current context window is deep (100k+ tokens) and a fresh start would be more effective - User wants to parallelize — spin off a subtask to a sibling session while the current one continues - User explicitly invokes `/ievo:handoff <purpose>` ## When not to use — lighter alternatives Not every context problem needs a handoff. Reach for the lightest tool that fits — a handoff creates a NEW session capsule, so it can't recover context you lost in the CURRENT one. | Situation | Better tool | |-----------|-------------| | You ran `/clear` accidentally and want the context back | `/rewind` (Claude Code v2.1.191+) — restores the conversation to its pre-`/clear` state in the **same session**; `/ievo:handoff` cannot help here (it would capsule the now-cleared state) | | Context is deep but you want to keep going in the same session | `/compact` — lossy summarization; stays in the current session | | You want to branch, parallelize, or carry curated context to a NEW session | `/ievo:handoff` — this skill | | You're on Cursor v3.7+ and want `/in-cloud` sessions to start with iEvo already installed | `.cursor/environment.json` (captured