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Conversation-centered handoff skill for Codex: move long tasks to a fresh task without losing intent or history

A developer created a conversation-centered handoff skill for Codex that allows moving long or degraded tasks to a fresh session without losing intent or history. The skill preserves user-agent conversation, changes of intent, obstacles, and unresolved questions while avoiding duplication of recoverable information. It is available under the MIT License.

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A conversation-centered handoff skill for moving a long or degraded Codex task to a fresh task without losing why the session began, what the user asked, how Codex responded, where the work stalled, or what remains unresolved.

The skill creates a fresh Codex task when thread-management capabilities are available, sends the complete handoff inline, saves a temporary Markdown backup, and asks the destination task to restate its understanding before continuing.

Place the files in a user-level Codex skill directory with this layout:

handoff/
├── SKILL.md
└── agents/
    └── openai.yaml

For a standard Codex setup, the resulting paths are:

~/.codex/skills/handoff/SKILL.md
~/.codex/skills/handoff/agents/openai.yaml

Restart Codex only if the skill does not appear automatically.

Invoke it explicitly with $handoff

, or ask naturally, for example:

Move this conversation to a new task without losing context.

Hand this work off to a fresh Codex task.

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The handoff output follows the language of the source conversation.

  • Preserve the user-agent conversation and changes of intent.
  • Keep important obstacles, dead ends, constraints, and unresolved questions.
  • Avoid duplicating code diffs or information recoverable from the workspace.
  • Redact secrets and unnecessary personal data.
  • Leave the source task intact.
  • Do not use a transcript-preserving fork, which would carry the bloated history forward.

MIT License. See LICENSE

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