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Best session handoff skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.Orca CLI Operate Orca-managed worktrees, folder contexts, terminals, repos, automations, artifacts, skill sharing, worktree comments, and Orca's embedded… | stablyai/ | 87k | 2 repos | ~593 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 2 | Tracks multi-session work with dependencies in the bd issue tracker so the agent can find ready tasks and recover its context after conversation compaction. | gastownhall/ | 28k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 3 | Saves and recalls markdown notes between agent sessions with the agent-carnet CLI, tracking which notes proved useful so stale ones expire and good ones stay. | yamadashy/ | 29k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 4 | Searches past Claude Code, Codex and Cursor sessions and summarizes what was worked on, tried or decided, using extraction scripts instead of reading raw logs. | slopus/ | 24k | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 5 | Build terminal user interfaces (TUIs) using Ink (React for CLIs) and @inkjs/ui with a reactive, session-driven wizard pattern. | novuhq/ | 40k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 6 | Hands off the current task, including context, decisions and failed attempts, to a fresh agent through Paseo by writing a self-contained briefing prompt and launching that agent. | getpaseo/ | 20k | 1 repo | ~606 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 7 | Connects Claude Code to Memori Cloud for long-term memory, recalling stored context before substantive replies and saving new context afterward. | MemoriLabs/ | 17k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | 4 days ago |
| 8 | 8.Beads A skill your agent uses when working in a repository that uses bd or Beads for durable project task tracking, issue dependencies, blocker management, multi-session handoff, or shared work memory. | liwp/ | 118 | 6 repos | ~537 | Automated safety check: Pass | EPL-1.0 | 22 days ago |
| 9 | Finds, reads and reconstructs past coding-agent sessions across Codex, Claude, OpenCode, Senpi and many other local agent logs. | code-yeongyu/ | 70k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 10 | Set up, review, or repair a CCManager config — .ccmanager.json at a git repository root, or the global ~/.config/ccmanager/config.json. | kbwo/ | 1.3k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 10 days ago |
| 11 | Resume work on the current task. An agent skill from ROYIANS/foliq-print-template-designer. | ROYIANS/ | 135 | 6 repos | ~554 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 12 | Creates, hands off, claims, executes and closes agent tasks through the MemPalace logstream, with approval of the exact task before it is recorded. | MemPalace/ | 59k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 13 | Writes a paste-ready handoff for the next agent session, opening with a state-check command block and separating done, suspected and blocked work. | codewhale-hq/ | 41k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 14 | 14.Trellis Meta Understand and customize the local Trellis architecture inside a user project. | mindfold-ai/ | 15k | 4 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 8 days ago |
| 15 | Searches this machine's own history of past AI coding sessions across every tool used on it, before work is redone or something is denied. | vshulcz/ | 1.1k | 1 repo | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 16 | Teaches an MCP-connected agent when and how to call Memori's recall, summary, compaction, augmentation, feedback and quota tools to keep context across sessions. | MemoriLabs/ | 17k | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 17 | 17.Ourmem Shared memory that never forgets. An agent skill from ourmem/omem. | ourmem/ | 174 | 1 repo | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 4 mo ago |
| 18 | Give an AI agent persistent, cross-session long-term memory through MindMemOS. | mindscale-noah/ | 1k | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 8 days ago |
| 19 | Keeps a task plan, findings and progress log in markdown files on disk so long agent tasks survive context resets, with Gemini hooks and helper scripts. | OthmanAdi/ | 27k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 20 | A skill your agent uses when continuing, resuming, locating, reading, inspecting, auditing, or reviewing a previous AI coding-agent session, handoff transcript, chat log, exported conversation… | hacktivist123/ | 243 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 21 | Resumes the most recent agent session for the current directory, leading with any question left unanswered and ending with a concrete next step. | rohitg00/ | 29k | — | ~678 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 22 | Recovers project handoff context from local Codex, Claude Code, Gemini, CodeBuddy, and codexmate-derived sessions. | SakuraByteCore/ | 354 | — | ~964 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 23 | Saves a user's project decisions, rules and preferences into a project-local mdbase so later sessions and other agents can recover the intent. | sickn33/ | 47k | 1 repo | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 24 | Tally Claude Code session token usage and cost estimates from the raw JSONL conversation log. | centminmod/ | 2.7k | — | ~8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 days ago |
| 25 | 25.Auto Memory This skill should be used when the user asks to 'set up memory', 'create memory files', 'create MEMORY.md', 'set up topic files', 'improve memory organization', 'what should I remember', 'how to… | tractorjuice/ | 2.3k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
| 26 | Writes a HANDOFF.md capturing goal, state, files, failed attempts and next steps so a fresh agent session can continue exactly where this one stopped. | thedotmack/ | 97k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 27 | 27.Pi Intercom Streamline session-to-session coordination with pi-intercom. | nicobailon/ | 529 | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 28 | 28.Codemap Gives an agent a quick map of a codebase's structure, dependencies, changes and handoffs, and tunes per-project config so the output stays code-first. | JordanCoin/ | 704 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 29 | 29.Codeman Drive Codeman, the session manager this agent is running inside, over its HTTP API: list sessions, start worker sessions, send them prompts, block until they finish (wait / wait-output /… | Ark0N/ | 784 | — | ~13k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 30 | Runs several coding-agent CLIs as real tmux sessions in one terminal UI, color-coded by whether each is working, waiting, idle or blocked. | YoanWai/ | 572 | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 31 | Separates a stable agent seat's identity from its changing occupant, and records honest, two-part provenance whenever one occupant replaces another. | mvschwarz/ | 5.5k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 32 | 32.Audit A skill your agent uses when stuck, confused, or disoriented in a crosslink-tracked project — dumps the full context (session state, active issue, locks, blockers, hook config, git state, project… | openwpm/ | 1.4k | — | ~676 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 33 | Keeps project decisions, research and verified results available across coding-agent sessions through LWC memory, a document Wiki graph and a CodeGraph code index. | sickn33/ | 47k | 1 repo | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 34 | AI DevKit · Manage running AI agents with ai-devkit agent commands. | codeaholicguy/ | 1.6k | — | ~558 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 35 | Fires a Stop hook that captures a Claude Code session transcript automatically when the session ends without a verbal wrap-up. | NateBJones-Projects/ | 4.7k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | yesterday |
| 36 | Give the agent durable, scoped, explainable memory across sessions and repositories through the Engraphis MCP tools. | Coding-Dev-Tools/ | 179 | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 37 | Keeps a task plan, findings and progress log as Markdown files in the project so long multi-step agent work survives context resets. | OthmanAdi/ | 27k | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 38 | Coordinates and recovers multi-stage Light research projects from a single passport file, with checkpoints, stale-work tracking and rerouting only when you approve. | Light0305/ | 640 | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 39 | Set up and improve harness engineering (AGENTS.md, docs/, lint rules, eval systems, project-level prompt engineering) for AI-agent-friendly codebases. | 10xChengTu/ | 102 | 1 repo | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 40 | Searches your own past AI coding sessions across every tool on this machine with the deja CLI, before you re-debug something already solved or deny that it exists. | vshulcz/ | 1.1k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 41 | Runs a side question or brainstorm in a parallel thread so it does not derail the main agent's current work, then optionally hands the result back. | dbachelder/ | 207 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 days ago |
| 42 | 42.Compact Plus Save the current Claude Code or Codex session state to a temporary state file before running /compact. | u-ichi/ | 205 | — | ~892 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 43 | 43.Claudraband Use claudraband CLI and daemon workflows programmatically to send prompts, resume sessions, inspect status, and manage live session state. | halfwhey/ | 287 | — | ~947 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 44 | 44.Doc Write or update READMEs, docs, repo instructions and handoff notes, checked against source. | boshu2/ | 447 | 1 repo | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 45 | Build, extend, and debug AI agents in Egroo using the Microsoft Agent Framework (C .NET). | jihadkhawaja/ | 178 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 6 mo ago |
| 46 | Keeps task_plan.md, findings.md and progress.md on disk as the agent's working memory for multi-step work, wired into Kiro steering, with no hooks. | OthmanAdi/ | 27k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 47 | Keeps a branch-local issue brief, decision log and session handoffs so a pull request's context survives across separate agent sessions. | pydantic/ | 946 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 48 | 48.CPR Compress Saves the current session as a searchable log with a curated summary and the raw transcript, so a later session can resume from it. | EliaAlberti/ | 513 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 28 days ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best session handoff skill?
Orca CLI from stablyai/orca ranks first of the 262 session handoff skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 87k GitHub stars, 2 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 593 tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Beads Task Memory and Agent Carnet Notebook.
Which session handoff skills are official?
6 of the 262 session handoff skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Branch Context Handoff, Catchup, Vardoger Analyze, Nemo Rl Session Memory, Writing Streamlit Apps and 1 more.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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