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Handoff - Session Cycling for Gas Town Agents

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Hand off to a fresh Claude session. Use when context is full, you've finished a logical chunk of work, or need a fresh perspective. Work continues from hook.

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Handoff - Session Cycling for Gas Town Agents

Hand off your current session to a fresh Claude instance while preserving work context.

When to Use

  • Context getting full (approaching token limit)
  • Finished a logical chunk of work
  • Need a fresh perspective on a problem
  • Human requests session cycling

Usage

/​handoff [optional message]

How It Works

  1. If you provide a message, it's sent as handoff mail to yourself
  2. gt handoff respawns your session with a fresh Claude
  3. New session auto-primes via SessionStart hook
  4. Work continues from your hook (pinned molecule persists)

Examples

# Simple handoff (molecule persists, fresh context)
/​handoff

# Handoff with context notes
/​handoff "Found the bug in token refresh - check line 145 in auth.go first"

What Persists

  • Hooked molecule: Your work assignment stays on your hook
  • Beads state: All issues, dependencies, progress
  • Git state: Commits, branches, staged changes

What Resets

  • Conversation context: Fresh Claude instance
  • TodoWrite items: Ephemeral, session-scoped
  • In-memory state: Any uncommitted analysis

Implementation

When invoked, execute:

  1. If user provided a message, send handoff mail:

    gt mail send <your-address> -s "HANDOFF: Session cycling" -m "<message>"
    
  2. Run the handoff command:

    gt handoff
    

The new session will find your handoff mail and hooked work automatically.

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