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Best session handoff skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Skills that summarise a session so work can resume cleanly in a new one.
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Session handoff skills, ranked

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Session handoff skills, ranked
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Operate Orca-managed worktrees, folder contexts, terminals, repos, automations, artifacts, skill sharing, worktree comments, and Orca's embedded…

stablyai/orca87k2 repos~593Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/beads28k—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/repomix29k—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 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/happy24k—~3.1kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
5

Build terminal user interfaces (TUIs) using Ink (React for CLIs) and @inkjs/ui with a reactive, session-driven wizard pattern.

novuhq/novu40k—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/paseo20k1 repo~606Automated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
7

Connects Claude Code to Memori Cloud for long-term memory, recalling stored context before substantive replies and saving new context afterward.

MemoriLabs/Memori17k—~2kAutomated safety check: NotesUnknown4 days ago
8

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/again1186 repos~537Automated safety check: PassEPL-1.022 days ago
9

Finds, reads and reconstructs past coding-agent sessions across Codex, Claude, OpenCode, Senpi and many other local agent logs.

code-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent70k—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
10

Set up, review, or repair a CCManager config — .ccmanager.json at a git repository root, or the global ~/.config/ccmanager/config.json.

kbwo/ccmanager1.3k—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT10 days ago
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Resume work on the current task. An agent skill from ROYIANS/foliq-print-template-designer.

ROYIANS/foliq-print-template-designer1356 repos~554Automated safety check: PassMIT1 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/mempalace59k—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/Codewhale41k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
14

Understand and customize the local Trellis architecture inside a user project.

mindfold-ai/Trellis15k4 repos~3.2kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.08 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/deja-vu1.1k1 repo~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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/Memori17k—~3.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 days ago
17

Shared memory that never forgets. An agent skill from ourmem/omem.

ourmem/omem1741 repo~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown4 mo ago
18

Give an AI agent persistent, cross-session long-term memory through MindMemOS.

mindscale-noah/MindMemOS1k—~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence8 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/planning-with-files27k—~2.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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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/agent-session-resume243—~1.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 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/agentmemory29k—~678Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
22

Recovers project handoff context from local Codex, Claude Code, Gemini, CodeBuddy, and codexmate-derived sessions.

SakuraByteCore/codexmate354—~964Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0yesterday
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/agentic-awesome-skills47k1 repo~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
24

Tally Claude Code session token usage and cost estimates from the raw JSONL conversation log.

centminmod/my-claude-code-setup2.7k—~8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT9 days ago
25

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/arc-kit2.3k—~1.7kAutomated safety check: PassUnknownyesterday
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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/claude-mem97k—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
27

Streamline session-to-session coordination with pi-intercom.

nicobailon/pi-intercom529—~4.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
28

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/codemap704—~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
29

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/Codeman784—~13kAutomated safety check: NotesMITtoday
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/agent-manager572—~1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
31

Separates a stable agent seat's identity from its changing occupant, and records honest, two-part provenance whenever one occupant replaces another.

mvschwarz/openrig5.5k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
32

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/OpenWPM1.4k—~676Automated safety check: PassUnknown2 days ago
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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/agentic-awesome-skills47k1 repo~2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0yesterday
34

AI DevKit · Manage running AI agents with ai-devkit agent commands.

codeaholicguy/ai-devkit1.6k—~558Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
35

Fires a Stop hook that captures a Claude Code session transcript automatically when the session ends without a verbal wrap-up.

NateBJones-Projects/OB14.7k—~1.3kAutomated safety check: NotesUnknownyesterday
36

Give the agent durable, scoped, explainable memory across sessions and repositories through the Engraphis MCP tools.

Coding-Dev-Tools/engraphis179—~3.7kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0yesterday
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/planning-with-files27k—~3kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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/Light-skills640—~3.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 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/harness-engineering1021 repo~1kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence2 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/deja-vu1.1k—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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/pi-btw207—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT5 days ago
42

Save the current Claude Code or Codex session state to a temporary state file before running /compact.

u-ichi/compact-plus205—~892Automated safety check: NotesMIT2 mo ago
43

Use claudraband CLI and daemon workflows programmatically to send prompts, resume sessions, inspect status, and manage live session state.

halfwhey/claudraband287—~947Automated safety check: PassMIT5 mo ago
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Write or update READMEs, docs, repo instructions and handoff notes, checked against source.

boshu2/agentops4471 repo~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
45

Build, extend, and debug AI agents in Egroo using the Microsoft Agent Framework (C .NET).

jihadkhawaja/Egroo178—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.06 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/planning-with-files27k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
47

Keeps a branch-local issue brief, decision log and session handoffs so a pull request's context survives across separate agent sessions.

pydantic/pydantic-ai-harness946—~1.7kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT4 days ago
48

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/cpr-compress-preserve-resume513—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT28 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.