Handoff - Session Cycling for Gas Town Agents

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

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