handoff

Generating a structured handoff prompt transfers context between agent threads by capturing repository details, recent commits, and uncommitted changes to ensure continuity. It summarizes background, decisions, and remaining tasks into a ready-to-use prompt for the next session.

Creating a handoff prompt is the best way to delegate work within a version-controlled repository. It extracts Git branch, commit, and status information, then formats a structured summary of completed work and next steps for your colleague.

Yes, you can use it to summarize uncommitted changes for inter-agent communication. It captures the current project state using Git commands and generates a concise contextual summary detailing decisions, work done, and remaining tasks.

It requires a Git repository to function for task switching. The process runs Git commands to capture repository, branch, commit, and status information, meaning any version-controlled repository provides the necessary data to generate the handoff prompt.

The generated handoff prompt includes background, work done, current state, decisions, remaining tasks, and important context. It applies this structure to scenarios involving task switching and work delegation to prevent loss of information.

You should not use automated context transfer when your repository lacks version control or when no Git commands are available. The mechanism depends entirely on capturing repository, branch, commit, and status information to generate the handoff prompt.