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A clean restart of a Claude Code CLI session requires a structured handoff brief that summarizes completed work and sets clear goals to ensure continuity without losing work in progress.

Context drift occurs when long-running Claude Code CLI sessions accumulate excessive background information, causing the model to lose focus; generating a handoff brief manages and discards stale context to prevent this.

Managing context for a new Claude Code session involves discarding stale data from previous sessions and setting explicit goals for the new session to prevent drift and maintain development focus.

Yes, generating a handoff brief for clean restarts requires a Claude Code CLI version that supports the /goal command to effectively set clear goals and manage context for new sessions.

You need a handoff brief when a long-running Claude Code CLI session has accumulated too much context, and you want to start a new session on the same machine without losing track of work in progress.

A limitation of context management during a clean restart is that without a properly structured handoff brief, manually discarding stale context from Claude Code sessions may result in losing track of completed work.