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.

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. 別セッションに移して この会話を引き継いで新しいタスクにして 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 .