XBlueSky

Takeoff — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Create, resume, or clear a session hand-off baton (one per work line).

How to install Takeoff

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/xbluesky-cortexes-takeoff/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/xbluesky-cortexes-takeoff && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/XBlueSky/cortexes/HEAD/commands/takeoff.md -o ~/.claude/skills/xbluesky-cortexes-takeoff/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Takeoff does

name: takeoff description: Create, resume, or clear a session hand-off baton (one per work line) argument-hint: "[topic | resume [topic] | done [topic]]" allowed-tools:

Read
Write
Bash

Invoke the `cortexes:cortex-takeoff` skill and follow it. Command frontmatter cannot load a skill for you, so invoke it explicitly with its fully qualified name via the Skill tool.

No argument or : create — curate the current session into that work line's baton (without a topic t

Alternatives in Development

Create Handoff — You are tasked with writing a handoff document to hand off your work to another agent in a new session 10k ★
/resume — Pick up where you left off on a target 1.8k ★
Harness Remote — Native-session control plane for Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, OMP and PI 356 ★