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# Handoff Write a handoff brief summarizing the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work immediately. The brief is the only context the next session starts with — make it sufficient. ## When to use - The current session is ending and another agent (or a future you) will continue the work. - Switching between foreground and background agents mid-task. **Not for:** continuing work in the same session — just keep going; summarizing work that's already captured in specs/plans/ADRs — reference those by path instead. ## Steps 1. **Summarize context and decisions.** Capture the goal, what was decided and why, what was tried and rejected, and the current state. Don't restate what's already in artifacts — reference specs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits, and diffs by path or URL. 2. **List concrete next steps.** Numbered, each independently actionable, starting from exactly where the work stopped. 3. **Suggest skills.** Add a "Suggested skills" section naming the skills the next agent should invoke (e.g. `tdd`, `code-review`). 4. **Redact sensitive information.** API keys, passwords, and PII must not appear in the brief — it may become a background agent's prompt or a shared file. 5. **Tailor to the next focus.** If the user passed an argument describing what the next session is for, weight the brief toward that focus. 6. **Deliver.** Save the brief to the OS temporary directory (not the current workspace), or launch a background agent seeded with it: `claude --b