Handoff

Write a compact, decision-ready handoff so the next session (or the user) can continue without reconstructing the current one. Use when the session is ending, context is running low, the user asks for a handoff / "pass the baton" / "hand off", or a long-running operation needs a durable state checkpoint. The goal: the durable artifact survives, the context does not need to.

Invocation: model+user

When to use

• The user says "handoff", "hand off", "pass the baton", "takeover prompt", "write me a handoff", or the session is about to end / compact.
• A long operation (multi-turn, multi-workstream) has state that must survive context loss: commits, branches, PRs, CI, blockers, decisions.
• You are switching to a fresh session and want the new session to start from evidence instead of reconstructing the old one.

What to do

1. Gather the truth from tools, not memory. Run/collect:
   • git branch --show-current, git status --short, git log --oneline origin/<default>..HEAD (what is local-only), git log --oneline -5 (recent context).
   • Live remote state where relevant (gh pr list --state open, gh pr checks <n>, gh run list), only what the user's operation actually depends on; do not pad the handoff with a full GitHub dump.
   • Any in-flight work: dirty files, uncommitted slices, partial worktrees, running background jobs/workers, queued CI.
2. Write a compact markdown handoff (aim under ~60 lines; the user may also ask for a "short text-only" variant, then aim under ~15 lines):