New Chat Ready

Core Position

This skill turns an active or recoverable past conversation into an execution handoff, first checks whether the current agent can start the next Codex conversation itself, and preserves durable project knowledge without bloating the next context window.

It is not a generic chat summary. It should preserve only the next agent's operating context: the current goal, latest recap checkpoint, workspace, decisions, files, validation evidence, risks, constraints, and the exact next action.

Use it as a cross-cutting handoff layer with SDD-RIPER, CodeMap, expcap, ordinary coding tasks, local conversation recovery, and project-level Markdown sync. SDD skills may route to this skill, but the handoff, recovery, and project sync format lives here.

Project-level sync is part of the core job, not an optional afterthought. Every new-chat handoff should reduce future context load by moving stable project and task knowledge into the right long-lived files, while keeping transient state in the handoff/spec. When a project exposes long-lived knowledge files such as root PROJECT_KNOWLEDGE.md, PROJECT_MEMORY.md, PROJECT_SPEC.md, or equivalents indexed from AGENTS.md, prefer those files for stable project truth and reusable memory. Use AGENTS.md for routing, boundaries, validation expectations, and safety rules.

Trigger

Use this skill when the user asks for or implies: