# Handoff artifact

Band: emerging — Real practice, thin evidence. Mostly vendor-stated or reported rather than measured.
Group: Handing off
Implemented by: https://clickai.dev/skills/handoff

One small file capturing where the work stands, so a fresh session resumes with no re-explanation. Written at roughly half the window rather than when it fills, because the oldest details fall away and long-chain reasoning degrades before the hard limit is ever reached. Two rules keep it useful: overwrite rather than append, since an appended handoff decays into a transcript nobody reads; and stay a pointer rather than a transcript, linking the durable records instead of copying them.

## See also

- [Stale-NEXT rule](https://clickai.dev/legend/stale-next-rule)
- [Compaction](https://clickai.dev/legend/compaction)
- [Context rot](https://clickai.dev/legend/context-rot)

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