# Handoff

> Compacts the current session into a handoff document, so a fresh agent can continue the work without the conversation.

Canonical: https://mikereams.com/ai/handoff

Skill · Curated · Planning · updated 2026-10-29. Part of the [AI Library](https://mikereams.com/ai).

What you get: One document that says where the work stands and which skills the next session should load, pointing at specs and commits instead of repeating them.

When to use it: At the end of a session, or when a conversation has grown too long to continue in.

Ask for it like this: "Write a handoff for the next session; it will finish the import step."

Limits: It redacts keys, passwords and personal details, and it refers to existing specs and commits instead of copying them.

- Text only. I changed where the document is saved, so it never lands in an app's repository, and added a rule that client work stays in its own workspace.
- Sessions forget. A handoff is the cheapest way I know to make the next one start where this one stopped.

Source: [mattpocock/skills](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/59db609/skills/productivity/handoff) by Matt Pocock (MIT), reviewed at 59db609. Not hosted here.

Reviewed 2026-10-29.

Tags: sessions, context, continuity