Chat context transfer

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Generates a structured context transfer summary including decisions made, files modified, and current state, so you can continue the conversation in a fresh chat session. Helps when token limits are near or performance degrades, ensuring no important context is lost.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
ProductivityIntermediate
1506/2/2026
Claude CodeCursorWindsurf
#context-transfer#session-continuity#prompt-engineering#workflow

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Our review

Prepares a structured summary of the current session to transfer to a new chat when context limits are reached or session quality degrades.

Strengths

  • Preserves key decisions and important discoveries
  • Generates a ready-to-paste prompt for the new session
  • Documents failures and patterns to follow

Limitations

  • Requires manual assessment of context level (70%+)
  • Does not automatically save modified file states
  • May omit subtle details not explicitly mentioned
When to use it

Use when the conversation becomes sluggish or the model starts forgetting early instructions.

When not to use it

Avoid for short, recent sessions where context is not yet a bottleneck.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score92/100

The skill provides a text template for summarizing a chat session; it involves no tool execution, no code, and no sensitive operations. It is purely a formatting guide.

No concerns found

Examples

Transfer after long debugging session
Context is at 80% and the model is losing track of earlier decisions. Run the transfer-context skill to prepare a summary for a new chat.
Preemptive context preservation
We've been working on this feature for an hour and the conversation feels heavy. Please use transfer-context to create a snapshot so we can continue fresh.

name: transfer-context description: Prepare context for a new chat session when this one is degraded or hitting token limits. Use when context is above 70% or conversation needs to continue in a fresh session. disable-model-invocation: true

Transfer Context

Prepare context for a new chat session when this one is degraded or hitting limits.

Output Format

## Context Transfer

### Summary
[What was accomplished in this session]

### Key Decisions
- [Decision 1 and why]
- [Decision 2 and why]

### Important Context
- [Gotchas discovered]
- [Patterns to follow]
- [Things that didn't work]

### Relevant Files
- path/to/file.ts - [what it does, why it matters]
- path/to/other.ts - [description]

### Current State
[What's working, what's broken, what's next]

### Prompt for New Chat
[Ready-to-paste prompt with all necessary context to continue]

Instructions

  1. Summarize what we accomplished (not just what we tried)
  2. List decisions made and their reasoning
  3. Note gotchas, failed approaches, important discoveries
  4. List files touched with brief descriptions
  5. Describe current state clearly
  6. Create a complete prompt I can paste into a fresh chat

The prompt should give the new session everything it needs to continue without re-explaining.

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