Transfer Context

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Prepare context for a new chat session when the current one is degraded or hitting token limits. Use when context exceeds 70% or conversation needs to continue in a fresh session.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
ProductivityIntermediate
506/2/2026
Claude Code
#context-transfer#session-management#prompt-engineering#handoff

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Our review

Prepares context from a degraded or token-limited chat session for a new session, summarizing decisions, discoveries, and key files.

Strengths

  • Enables seamless continuation of work without major information loss
  • Organizes important information in a clear, concise format
  • Generates a ready-to-paste prompt for the new session

Limitations

  • Does not capture tone or tacit reasoning from conversations
  • May miss subtle contextual details if the summary is too brief
When to use it

Use this skill when the current session is nearing 70% context usage or when the conversation becomes sluggish.

When not to use it

Avoid using it if the session is still short and responsive, or if the work is complete and doesn't need continuation.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score80/100

The skill is purely a text template for summarizing chat context. It does not instruct any code execution, destructive actions, data exfiltration, or tool usage. There is no risk of executing harmful commands.

No concerns found

Examples

Transfer context after a long debugging session
We've been debugging the auth flow for 2 hours and the chat is getting slow. Use the transfer-context skill to prepare a new session.

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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