Mem Handoff — Development skill for Claude Code
Rotate docs/handoff.md — keep the most recent N dated snapshots live, move older ones to docs/handoff-archive.md.
How to install Mem Handoff
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/oooshisuiooo-gowth-mem-mem-handoff/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/oooshisuiooo-gowth-mem-mem-handoff && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OoOshisuiOoO/gowth-mem/HEAD/commands/mem-handoff.md -o ~/.claude/skills/oooshisuiooo-gowth-mem-mem-handoff/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Mem Handoff does
description: Rotate docs/handoff.md — keep the most recent N dated snapshots live, move older ones to docs/handoff-archive.md. handoff.md is loaded at EVERY bootstrap, so this caps its per-session token cost. Structural sections are kept; nothing is deleted (archive + git history).
Rotate `docs/handoff.md` so it stays small. handoff.md is read at **every** SessionStart, so accumulated dated snapshots (`## host:… 2026-06-14`, etc.) become a per-session token tax. The canon caps an always
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