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Compact Handoff — Communication skill for Claude Code

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How to install Compact Handoff

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open marks97/compact-handoff and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Compact Handoff does

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README

Compact Handoff

A [Claude Code](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills) skill.

Compact the current conversation into a large standalone handoff file on disk, then open a BRAND NEW Claude Code session named after the current chat with an incremented counter, seeded with only a pointer to that file, leaving the current chat fully intact. Use this whenever the user wants a clean context window without losing what was learned, or says any of — "compact to a new chat", "compact but start fresh", "carry this over to a new session", "hand this off", "new chat with this context", "my context is getting heavy", "this chat is too long", "start over but remember this", "dump the context and open a fresh one", or asks for a handoff, a context dump, or a session summary they can reuse later. Also use it when a long investigation is finished and the follow-up work deserves its own window. Prefer this over plain /compact whenever the user wants the old chat to stay readable afterward, and reach for it even if they never say the word "compact".

Install

Via [skills.sh](https://skills.sh):

npx skills add marks97/compact-handoff

Or manually — copy the `compact-handoff/` folder into your `.claude/skills/` directory.

Usage

Once installed, Claude invokes this skill automatically when your request matches what it does (see the triggers in [`compact-handoff/SKILL.md`](compact-handoff/SKILL.md)). You can also ask for it by name.