a continuation document from this session, for the next one

/handoff snapshots one generation-stable session, asks the configured model for a bounded self-contained continuation document, redacts it, and saves a new owner-private HANDOFF-*.md through the workspace mutation lease. Use it when you want the next session — or another person — to pick up without rereading the whole transcript.

The file is a new write, not an overwrite of an existing handoff. An overlapping turn is rejected instead of mixed into the file. If another process changed the saved session under you, DGC asks you to resume it first.

• Terminal and classic: /handoff.
• Editor: DGC: Generate Handoff, or /handoff in the composer.
• Headless: generate_handoff with save: true (atomic write) or save: false (markdown only).

The $handoff skill is the instruction package for how to write one when you ask the agent to; /handoff is the command that always produces the file.

Objective, current work, checks already run, remaining steps. Credentials are redacted. It is not a full transcript (/export) and not project memory (DGC.md).