Handoff - Session Cycling for Gas Town Agents

Hand off your current session to a fresh Claude instance while preserving work context.

When to Use

• •Context getting full (approaching token limit)
• •Finished a logical chunk of work
• •Need a fresh perspective on a problem
• •Human requests session cycling

Usage

/handoff [optional message]

How It Works

1. •If you provide a message, it's sent as handoff mail to yourself
2. •gt handoff respawns your session with a fresh Claude
3. •New session auto-primes via SessionStart hook
4. •Work continues from your hook (pinned molecule persists)

Examples

# Simple handoff (molecule persists, fresh context)
/handoff

# Handoff with context notes
/handoff "Found the bug in token refresh - check line 145 in auth.go first"

What Persists

• •Hooked molecule: Your work assignment stays on your hook
• •Beads state: All issues, dependencies, progress
• •Git state: Commits, branches, staged changes

What Resets

• •Conversation context: Fresh Claude instance
• •TodoWrite items: Ephemeral, session-scoped
• •In-memory state: Any uncommitted analysis

Implementation

When invoked, execute:

1. •

   If user provided a message, send handoff mail:

   bash

   gt mail send <your-address> -s "HANDOFF: Session cycling" -m "<message>"
   

2. •

   Run the handoff command:

   bash

   gt handoff
   

The new session will find your handoff mail and hooked work automatically.