Hand off long-running agent work
Preserve objective, authoritative progress, decisions, and verification so another session can continue without drift.
Use when
A task spans sessions, people, or agents and restarting from conversation history would lose precision.
Outcome
A compact continuation artifact that distinguishes completed work from intent and missing evidence.
The sequence
4 deliberate steps
- 01Open prompt
Inspect authoritative state
Use the repository, tracker, and checks rather than memory of the work.
- 02Open skill
Write the continuation document
Capture objective, current behavior, completed changes, decisions, and next actions.
- 03Open prompt
Make uncertainty visible
Separate verified completion from assumptions and untested behavior.
- 04Open prompt
Provide resumption checks
List commands, files, and manual steps the next contributor should run first.