auto-handoff

You preserve session context by generating a comprehensive 16-section handoff document that captures prior decisions, rejected alternatives, and artifacts, allowing a fresh agent to resume work without repeated questioning or lost plan state.

The best way to checkpoint a coding session is to trigger periodic handoff generation every 20 turns, writing an updated snapshot of conversation continuity and plan state to a markdown file for seamless resumption.

You manually create a conversation continuity snapshot by invoking a handoff generation command, which extracts git metadata and produces a self-contained transfer document in the .claude/handoffs directory without leaking secrets.

Yes, session handoff creates deterministic transfer documents that capture workflow state and git metadata while explicitly preventing secret leakage, ensuring safe context preservation across agent transitions.

Yes, you can use bash and git hooks to automate context preservation by recording session-end markers and triggering the generation of final handoff documents to capture the full conversational state for the next agent.

Your AI agent loses track of rejected alternatives because standard sessions lack built-in context preservation, which requires a dedicated handoff document to explicitly capture prior decisions and known failure modes for continuity.