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Session Handoff Protocol

FTR-19version 1.0coreskill: handoff-protocolskill review: unreviewed

In plain words

When a conversation gets too long, Claude writes a summary document that captures everything important. You paste it into a fresh conversation and carry on where you left off.

Use it when a chat is running out of room, or when you want to move to a new conversation without losing the thread.

Technical summary

Carry a conversation into the next one without losing context

Install it

Download the skill folder (SKILL.md, with the full spec in references/spec.md), or the zip: handoff-protocol-1.0.zip (2856 bytes, sha256 9657228a78d710db…).

Read it

For an AI without skills, hand over this line, or the plain markdown at id/FTR-19.md.

Fetch https://claude.sotekzone.com/v/20261102a/id/FTR-19.md and walk me through installing it.

Session Handoff Protocol

What this is

A structured way to carry everything important from one conversation into the next when a session gets long or hits context limits. The agent produces a markdown handoff document; the user drops it into a fresh conversation and resumes without losing anything.

Assess first

Ask, only if needed

Nothing to ask — proceed directly to Write.

Write

Add this section to admin\AGENT_INSTRUCTIONS.md:

◆ HANDOFF DOCUMENT PROTOCOL

A handoff document is a structured markdown summary of everything important
in the current conversation — produced when a conversation is getting long
or hitting context limits.

What it contains: work done, seeded items, open items, decisions made,
context to resume.

When conversation is getting long or hitting context limits:
1. Commit all seeded items first
2. "Generate a handoff document"
3. Agent produces markdown: work done, seeded items, open items, decisions,
   context to resume
4. Download from the conversation
5. New conversation -> drop the handoff in -> "pick up from the handoff"

Handoff docs are ephemeral — they live in the conversation, start the next
one, then they're done. To keep one, move it to archive\. No dedicated
folder needed.

Suggest a handoff proactively when the context window is filling up.

Confirm

Confirm: the Session Handoff Protocol is installed — say "generate a handoff document" anytime a conversation runs long, and pick up clean in the next one. Want to install another, or is that everything for now?