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handoff Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up. Use when the user wants to transition work to a fresh session, switch worktrees, or hand off to a subagent. What will the next session be used for?

Write a handoff document summarising the current conversation so a fresh agent can continue the work. Save it to a path produced by mktemp -t handoff-XXXXXX.md (read the file before you write to it).

Suggest the skills the next session should use, if any. In this repo, the common follow-ups are:

  • grill-with-docs — stress-test the plan before coding
  • to-prd — materialize the plan into docs/work/prds/<date>-<slug>.prd.md
  • superpowers:writing-plans — author the implementation plan
  • superpowers:subagent-driven-development — dispatch implementer + reviewer subagents per task

Don't duplicate

Reference these artifacts by path or URL rather than inlining their content:

  • PRDs (docs/work/prds/*.prd.md), epics (docs/work/epics/<epic>/_epic.md), stories (_story.md), tasks (*.task.md)
  • ADRs (docs/decisions/adr-NNN-*.md)
  • AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md (the next agent loads these automatically)
  • _state.json (orchestrator-derived; the next agent regenerates it from markdown via pnpm work rebuild-state)
  • Commit messages, diffs, PR descriptions — link the SHA / PR number
  • Existing plans under docs/superpowers/plans/

Do capture

  • The active goal in one sentence
  • In-flight branch / worktree and any uncommitted state (e.g. git status summary, dangling commits)
  • Decisions made in conversation that haven't yet landed in a PRD or ADR
  • Blockers and proposed next steps
  • Skills to invoke first in the next session
  • If the user passed arguments, treat them as the next session's focus and tailor the doc accordingly

Keep the document short — it's a baton, not a thesis.