handoff

Summarize conversation context for agent reassignment by generating a compact handoff document that preserves decisions, progress, and constraints. This artifact is written to a temporary file path, allowing a fresh agent session to continue immediately without losing prior context.

The best way to summarize a chat session is creating a handoff document that compacts the conversation into an actionable summary. It references existing artifacts like PRDs, ADRs, and commits by path or URL instead of duplicating them, ensuring the new agent gets concise context.

A handoff document handles existing project artifacts by referencing their file paths or URLs instead of duplicating their contents. This artifact de-duplication ensures the compact summary remains concise while still pointing the next agent to relevant plans, issues, and diffs.

Yes, you can tailor the context transfer summary by providing an argument that describes what the next session should focus on. The handoff document uses this argument to align the summarized decisions and next-skill suggestions with your specific continuation goals.

Generating an agent handoff note requires writing the summary to a mktemp-generated file path. This ensures the compact context transfer document is saved as a ready-to-use artifact that the next agent session can immediately access and read.