What problem does it solve?
Long interactive LLM sessions can exhaust context windows and are difficult to continue across machines; this Skill captures a concise Recap and concrete Next Actions so work can resume immediately on the same or a different host. It removes ambiguity about what was discovered and what to do next by recording a timestamped, versionable journal entry that can be shared via VCS.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Prepend Recap + Next Actions: Generates a 2–4 sentence Recap and a 1–5 item Next list and inserts them at the top of .claude/journal.md.
- Host & Timestamping: Records the current timestamp and optional short hostname for cross-machine identification, and tolerates hostname failures by omitting host info.
- Safe file handling and recovery: Creates the journal with a standard header if missing, preserves existing entries by prepending without editing, and prompts the user when no Next Actions are specified (headless mode records a placeholder).
- Use Cases: break long sessions to reduce context pressure, hand off work from one EC2 instance to another via VCS, and produce archiveable session checkpoints for later review.
Quick Start
Run the handoff skill to append a concise Recap and concrete Next Actions to .claude/journal.md so another session or machine can resume work.