handoff-more

/handoff-more — load older handoffs into context

Prerequisite: this skill reads history that only exists when the scripts and hooks from https://github.com/Sting25/claude-code-handoff are installed — write_handoff.sh is what rotates snapshots into handoff_history/. That toolchain lives under ~/.claude/bin/ and is NOT part of this file alone; run ./install.sh --scope project --project <dir> from that repo first.

The SessionStart hook auto-loads handoff_current.md (the most recent handoff). This skill pulls in the older snapshots that write_handoff.sh rotated into <repo>/.claude/handoff_history/ before each new write.

When to invoke

• User asks explicitly (/handoff-more, "load more handoff context," "what did we do two sessions ago," etc.).
• Auto-loaded handoff is thin. If handoff_current.md was the result of an automatic SessionEnd write (no model in the loop to add curated Notes), the SessionStart hook already loaded the prior one as a fallback. But if the user is referencing decisions or work the assistant still can't account for, run this skill to pull further back.
• Continuity gap. User mentions a track, decision, or artifact you have no context on, and the current handoff doesn't reference it.

Steps

1. List the history dir:

   ls -la <repo-root>/.claude/handoff_history/
   

   If the directory is missing or empty, check whether that's "no history yet" or "toolchain never installed". The installer puts the scripts under ~/.claude/bin/ ($CLAUDE_HOME/bin when that override is set):

   hb="${CLAUDE_HOME:-$HOME/.claude}/bin"
   [ -f "$hb/write_handoff.sh" ] || hb=""
   [ -n "$hb" ] || echo "MISSING: handoff scripts not installed (no write_handoff.sh in ${CLAUDE_HOME:-$HOME/.claude}/bin)"
   echo "handoff-bin: $hb"
   

   (This skill only reads directories — $hb isn't invoked elsewhere in this file, so there's no cross-call persistence concern here.) If it prints MISSING, stop and tell the user to clone https://github.com/Sting25/claude-code-handoff and run ./install.sh, and don't try to substitute for the missing toolchain. If the scripts ARE installed, say there's simply no history yet and stop — there's nothing to load.