session-handofflisted
Install: claude install-skill yannick-bottino/consulting-claude-skills
# Session Handoff
Long sessions rot: the window fills with stale back-and-forth and outputs get worse. `/compact` summarizes the mess in place and keeps going in the *same* polluted window. This skill does the opposite. It captures the goal of your next session, points to the right files, and hands you a clean prompt to paste into a fresh chat. Rebuild, not summarize.
## UX Rules
1. Ask exactly one question: the goal. Don't interrogate.
2. **Wait for the answer. Stop your turn after asking.** Do not generate the prompt, a draft, or a "default / in the meantime" handoff before the user replies with the goal. The only exception: the user already stated the goal in the trigger, in which case skip the question and proceed.
3. Reference files by **path only**, never copy file content, **but only when the data lives in a file the next session can open.** The fresh session cannot read this chat. So never hand it a pointer to data that has no retrievable home, see the persistence check in the workflow.
4. Be concise. The output is a prompt the user pastes, not a report. No preamble around it.
5. Default level is `full` when none is given.
## Levels
- **lite**: quick reset, no scan. Goal, next 3 steps, open decisions, and bare file paths. A sticky note.
- **full** (default): handoff doc. Everything in lite, plus what's done, key decisions, and file pointers each with a one-line "why it matters".
- **ultra**: full briefing. Everything in full, plus dead-ends to avoid, paths to any