/session-handoff
Generate a session handoff document for the current Book_Map project.
Instructions for Claude
- •Read the current
docs/session/SESSION_HANDOFF.mdto understand the previous state. - •Read
references/handoff-template.mdfor the required structure. - •Review what has changed this session:
- •Check
git difforgit statusfor modified files - •Check
manuscript/_INDEX.mdfor chapter status changes - •Check
plans/_INDEX.mdfor plan progress
- •Check
- •Fill in all sections of the handoff template:
- •Last Updated: today's date
- •Session Summary: 1-2 sentences describing what was accomplished
- •Work Completed: specific deliverables (files created/modified, chapters drafted/edited)
- •Work In Progress: current state of unfinished work
- •Blocked Items: anything stuck, with reason and unblock condition
- •Next Steps: prioritized list for next session
- •Key Decisions: any editorial decisions made (especially EDRs)
- •Open Questions: ambiguities needing human input
- •Fill in book-specific fields:
- •Narrative Temperature: the emotional/tonal state of the writing at session end (tense, reflective, building, climactic, etc.)
- •Last Written Passage: final 200-300 words of prose written this session
- •Dangling Threads: story/argument elements introduced but not yet resolved
- •Write the completed handoff to
docs/session/SESSION_HANDOFF.md. - •Update the
<!-- reviewed: YYYY-MM-DD -->freshness tag.
Output format
Write the handoff document directly. Confirm with:
code
Session handoff updated: docs/session/SESSION_HANDOFF.md Summary: [1-line summary] Next session should: [top priority]