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stryx:handoff

When work must continue in a later session: it saves where things stand.

/stryx:handoff

Inside its piece: 9 specks, one for each file on its shelf. Its fourteen group-mates glow on the open book behind it. The light splits toward indigo, the band of Workflow.

In numbers

counted 2026-10-12 in the installed set
  • 5reference files
  • 2helper scripts
  • 9files in the skill
  • 88KB on disk
  • 6chapters
  • 1agent works by this book

Use it when

in the skill’s own words
  • When the user says
    • "/handoff"
    • "handoff"
    • "create a handoff"
    • "save progress"
    • "save context"
    • "pass the baton"
    • "continue later"
    • "fresh start"
    • "start fresh"
    • "clean slate"
    • "context is full"
    • "context is getting long"
    • "getting slow"
    • "performance degraded"
    • "you're not performing well"
  • When the user is about to run /clear, is switching to a different major task, or is ending a session with work left and wants it carried over
  • When a session starts from a handoff
    • "read HANDOFF.md"
    • "continue from where we left off"
    • "resume from the handoff"
    • "find my handoff"
  • The user supplies a handoff file, folder, URL or pasted notes to continue from
  • When the user asks how healthy the session is before deciding whether to start fresh

What it covers

Covers session-to-session continuity documents (full, compact, quick, emergency and chain handoffs) and resuming from them.

Inside the book

6 chapters, by title only
  1. Hard rules
  2. Pick the mode
  3. Where the handoff goes
  4. Create: the procedure
  5. Resume: the procedure
  6. Health report (only when the user asks)

Its helper

1 agent works by this book

Works with

the skills it names most

Claude loads it by itself when the moment comes; by hand, type the line at the top. It comes with the whole set: Installs all 94 skills, 32 agents and the brain program as one set. The skill’s own text is private source and is not shown here.