Session Handoff

The practice of packaging the useful state from a Claude Code session into a concise handoff document before clearing context or moving work into a new session.

Key points

  • A good handoff preserves the goal, current state, decisions made, files touched, open risks, and next actions [src-011]
  • It avoids carrying the full conversation history forward, which is the main driver of context bloat and Context Rot [src-011]
  • Handoffs are useful mid-project when a session is getting long but the work is not finished [src-011]
  • Session Chaining is the planned, multi-session version of the same discipline: each session produces the input artifact for the next one [src-011]

Related entities

  • Claude Code — runtime where the handoff is generated and consumed

Related concepts

Source references

  • [src-011] Nate Herk — Claude Code power features cluster (2026-04-20 to 2026-04-27)

Robin Cartier perspective

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