Handoff

Summarize what matters, clear the noise, and continue without paying for stale tokens.

Workflow

1. Check if the conversation started with a prior handoff summary. If so, merge it with this session's work into one cumulative summary — carry forward anything still relevant, drop anything resolved or stale.
2. Write the summary (see format below).
3. Print the summary in a fenced code block so the user can review it.
4. Copy the summary to the clipboard using the appropriate command for the OS (pbcopy on macOS, clip on Windows, xclip -selection clipboard on Linux).
5. Tell the user the summary is on their clipboard and to clear the context, then paste it as their first message.

The summary travels forward as the first user message in the new context, so it must be self-contained.

Note: context clearing is a client-side operation — the model cannot invoke it. The user must do it themselves. This is the only manual step.

Summary format