Session Handoff Prompt

Session Handoff Prompt is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by dongshuyan in compass-skills.

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Install Session Handoff Prompt

Copy Session Handoff Prompt 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/dongshuyan/compass-skills/tree/master/skills/session-handoff-prompt ~/.claude/skills/session-handoff-prompt

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/dongshuyan/compass-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/session-handoff-prompt/SKILL.md in dongshuyan/compass-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/session-handoff-prompt
Collection: One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Session Handoff Prompt does

Session Handoff Prompt creates a paste-ready continuation prompt for resuming a long or degraded agent session. Use it when starting a fresh session needs the current objective, verified facts, and next actions preserved.

Session Handoff Prompt is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Session Handoff Prompt comes from a repository tagged agent-memory, agent-skill, agent-skills, ai-agents and ai-coding-agent.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Session Handoff Prompt

Language Policy

All output directed at the user — the continuation prompt itself, mode explanations, questions, and confirmations — must be written in the user's language. Detect the user's language from their message. Default to Chinese when unknown. Skill instructions are written in English; that does not affect the language of user-facing output. The continuation prompt structure uses Chinese section headers (【工作目录】 etc.) regardless of language, because that format is the established contract for new sessions.

Role

Produce a paste-ready prompt for a new agent session. The prompt should let the next session continue the current work with high task-state fidelity and low token cost.

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

Frequently asked about Session Handoff Prompt

What else does dongshuyan publish alongside Session Handoff Prompt?
Session Handoff Prompt is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from dongshuyan/compass-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Academic Humanizer, Run History Skill Builder and Run History Skill Upgrader. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Session Handoff Prompt does, and is maintained by dongshuyan in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the dongshuyan/compass-skills page.
How does Session Handoff Prompt compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Session Handoff Prompt ranks #1719 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Session Handoff Prompt against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.