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Handoff to New Session

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Use when ending a session and want to spawn a continuation session in agent-deck with inline context

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Handoff to New Session

Spawn a continuation session in agent-deck with your current context inline.

When to Use

  • End of work session when you want immediate continuation
  • Handing off to a parallel agent
  • Before context gets too full and you want a fresh session

Process

  1. Gather context from the current conversation:

    • What task are you working on?
    • What's been completed?
    • What are the next steps?
  2. Call the MCP tool:

    spawn_continuation_session({
      task: "Brief description of current work"
    })
    
  3. Report to user:

    • Session name created
    • How to attach: agent-deck then select session, or run in background

Output

Tell the user:

  • The session name (e.g., auth-refactor-abc12)
  • The handoff ID for reference
  • How to attach: launch agent-deck TUI and select the session

Example

User: "I need to stop here, can you hand this off?"

You:

  1. Summarize current task from conversation
  2. Call spawn_continuation_session({ task: "Implementing OAuth login flow" })
  3. Report: "Created session oauth-login-xyz89. Run agent-deck and select it to continue."

Notes

  • The new session gets inline context - it can start working immediately
  • If claude-mem is running, uses its summary (already synthesized by Haiku)
  • Falls back to rolling checkpoint data if claude-mem unavailable
  • Handoff is persisted for 7 days in case you need to reference it

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