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/create_handoff

Create a handoff document to transfer your current working context to another agent session. The document compacts and summarizes your context without losing key details.

Usage

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/create_handoff

Output

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Handoff documents are saved to thoughts/shared/handoffs/ with the format:

thoughts/shared/handoffs/ENG-XXXX/YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS_ENG-ZZZZ_description.md

Where:

  • ENG-XXXX is the ticket number (or general if no ticket)
  • YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS is the timestamp
  • description is a brief kebab-case summary

When to Use

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  • Ending a session with unfinished work
  • Handing off to a teammate
  • Splitting work across multiple sessions
  • Preserving context before switching tasks

What This Adds

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When a session gets long, context fills up. When you start a new session, you lose everything from the last one. Claude Code’s auto-memory captures some preferences, but not working state. Copilot’s session memory is gone entirely.

/create_handoff performs explicit context transfer — it compacts your current session into a structured document capturing what was done, what’s left, key decisions made, files touched, and blockers encountered. This isn’t memory in the “the model remembers things” sense. It’s a concrete artifact that another session (or another person) can pick up with /resume_handoff.