Claude Session Handoffs: How to Keep Context Across Conversations
TL;DR: Even with memory and context compaction, AI assistants still lose the detailed state of your project between sessions. A simple two-file system plus a handoff prompt takes seconds at the end of a session and saves minutes of re-explanation at the start of the next one. This works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, or any AI assistant. Likewise, this can help keep you from wasting tokens by letting a conversation run on for too long. Use handoff/handover prompts to