Relay

Relay is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by sangrokjung in claude-forge.

806 stars175 forkson sangrokjung/claude-forgeAdded 2026/08/22Repository updated 2026/08/21

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Install Relay

Copy Relay into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/sangrokjung/claude-forge/tree/main/skills/relay ~/.claude/skills/relay

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/sangrokjung/claude-forge.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/relay/SKILL.md in sangrokjung/claude-forge
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/relay
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Relay does

Relay compresses the current session into a one-line /compact command and a baton prompt for the next task. Use it when handing off work, continuing after compaction, or starting a new session.

Relay is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Relay comes from a repository tagged agents, ai-assistant, ai-coding, ai-framework and ai-pair-programming.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

relay — session relay (compact + next-task baton)

Think of a relay race: the runner hands off the baton before stopping. Before context fills up, this skill produces two things: ① a one-line /compact command that compresses everything so far, and ② a handoff document (a "baton") that lets the next session start running immediately on the next task.

When: context is 70%+ used, work is about to be interrupted, or the user asks to "relay / hand off / next session / baton / handoff."

Important (invariant): this skill never runs /compact directly (a skill cannot execute /compact). It only produces the one-liner the user pastes in.

Let $SKILL be the absolute path of the directory containing this SKILL.md. Scripts live in $SKILL/scripts/.

Flow

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Relay provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/compact

Frequently asked about Relay

What else does sangrokjung publish alongside Relay?
Relay is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from sangrokjung/claude-forge, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include BigCode Evaluation Harness, Blind Spot Pass and Build System. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Relay does, and is maintained by sangrokjung in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the sangrokjung/claude-forge page.
How does Relay compare to other Automation skills?
Relay ranks #976 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Relay against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.