Context Baton — Development skill for Claude Code
Two Claude Code skills for passing context across boundaries: session-handoff (end-of-session, agent→human) + successor-handoff (mid-run, agent→agent).
How to install Context Baton
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open wan-huiyan/context-baton and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Context Baton does
Two Claude Code skills for passing context across boundaries: session-handoff (end-of-session, agent→human) + successor-handoff (mid-run, agent→agent). Install via Claude Code plugin marketplace.
Alternatives in Development
- Release & Shipping Burn Patterns — Research Summary — Research completed: 2026-02-10 Sources: ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md (This Has Burned You Before table), SESSION_HANDOF 216 ★
- Instalar Desde El Marketplace — /plugin marketplace add giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit /plugin install /path/to/developer-kit 210 ★
- Blotato Skills — Free Blotato Claude skills — plugin marketplace 106 ★
README
context-baton — DEPRECATED
⚠️ **This marketplace is deprecated as of 2026-05-28.**
- session-handoff has moved to its dedicated home: wan-huiyan/session-handoff (current release: v1.13).
- successor-handoff is no longer maintained as a paired skill — Claude Code's own context handling has matured to the point where its mid-run agent→agent role is no longer load-bearing for typical workflows.
**What to do:**
# Uninstall the bundle claude plugin uninstall session-handoff@wan-huiyan-context-baton # Install the standalone (current) version claude plugin marketplace add wan-huiyan/session-handoff claude plugin install session-handoff@wan-huiyan-session-handoffThe repo is archived for history. No further updates will land here — point all installs at the standalone repo.
Historical context
This marketplace originally bundled two skills for passing context across boundaries:
| Skill | Current home |
|---|---|
| session-handoff | → wan-huiyan/session-handoff (actively maintained) |
| successor-handoff | This repo (frozen at v1.0.0) |
The pair was useful when Claude Code's mid-run context handling left the agent→agent baton drop to the skill layer. As of mid-2026, that gap has closed enough that the standalone session-handoff repo covers the cases users actually hit.
See [wan-huiyan/session-handoff](https://github.com/wan-huiyan/session-handoff) for the current README, install instructions, version history, and related skills.
License
MIT — see [LICENSE](LICENSE).
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