Transfer Context

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Prepare context for a new chat session when 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 CodeCursorWindsurfCopilotCodex
#context-transfer#token-limit-recovery#session-continuity#conversation-reset

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Our review

Generates a structured summary to transfer context from an ongoing session to a fresh chat session, typically when token limits are near or conversation quality degrades.

Strengths

  • Provides a ready-to-use template covering decisions, discoveries, and current state.
  • Eliminates the need to re-explain the entire project in a new session.
  • Captures failed approaches and gotchas, speeding up future work.

Limitations

  • Relies on the user accurately summarizing the session's work.
  • May omit subtle nuances if the summary is too brief.
  • Only works if the new session can accept the full reconstructed prompt.
When to use it

When the current session exceeds 70% token capacity or conversation becomes sluggish due to history.

When not to use it

If you're about to finish a simple task or can continue without performance issues.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score82/100

The skill is a documentation helper that generates a template for human use; it does not execute any code or access any tools, and poses no risk of destructive or exfiltrating actions.

No concerns found

Examples

Transfer after debugging session
We've been debugging the login flow for 2 hours and are hitting token limits. Run the transfer-context skill to prepare everything I need to continue in a new chat.
Transfer after architectural discussion
We've made several architectural decisions about the microservices split. I need to move to a fresh session. Use transfer-context to capture our decisions, current state, and the next steps.
General session handoff
This conversation is getting long and responses are slow. Please generate a context transfer so I can paste the summary into a new chat and continue seamlessly.

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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