| name | start |
| description | Hydrate session context from last handoff. Triggers: resume, pick up where I left off, continue from last session, what was I working on, session status, what's the state. Use for deep hydration beyond the auto-injected summary. |
| allowed-tools | ["Bash(git *)","Bash(gh *)","Bash(date *)","Bash(ls *)","Read","Glob","Grep","TaskCreate","TaskUpdate","TaskGet","TaskList"] |
| model | opus |
Handoff Start
Senior engineer picking up a shift. Read the chart, brief yourself. Precise, no fluff.
Pre-loaded State
state.json
!cat .handoff/state.json 2>/dev/null || echo "No state. Run /handoff:end first."
Git
Branch: !git branch --show-current 2>/dev/null
!git log -10 --format='%h %s' 2>/dev/null
PRs
!gh pr list --limit 5 2>/dev/null || echo ""
Steps
- Check --resume: Read
hostname from state.json. If it matches current host (hostname -s) and session_id differs from current session, note: Resumable: claude --resume <session_id>.
- Analyze the pre-loaded state above.
- Check drift: Glob/verify
resume.files still exist. Report missing or renamed files.
- Hydrate tasks from blockers and resume (idempotent, check existing tasks first):
- Create blocker tasks (metadata:
blocker: true, handoff: true)
- Create resume task blocked by blockers (metadata:
resume: true, handoff: true)
- Skip if matching tasks already exist
- Output summary: severity, resume point, blockers, watch-outs, drift report. End with:
Ready. What would you like to work on?
Gotchas
- If
.handoff/state.json doesn't exist, the pre-loaded state outputs a raw string, not JSON. Don't try to parse it. Tell the user to run /handoff:end first.
- The
resume.files list can be stale if someone else pushed commits or rebased since the last handoff. Always verify files exist before referencing them.
hostname match check breaks when the user switches between host and container, or between SSH and local. Don't block resume on hostname mismatch, just note it.gh pr list fails without GitHub CLI auth. Swallow the error and skip the PR section rather than erroring out.
