Context Summary

Produces a lean, paste-ready session handoff so work can continue in a new conversation without re-paying the cost of the full chat. Emits a seven-block skeleton optimized for re-entry, not archival. Trigger this skill whenever the user says any of the following (exact or close paraphrase): "context summary", "context-summary", "context handoff", "handoff summary", "give me the handoff", "hand this off", "carry context forward", "prep the handoff". Always trigger this skill for these phrases. Do not answer them directly without consulting this skill. The signal for this skill is the user wanti

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)
npx skills add thebpandey/context-summary --skill context-summary
Manual install
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thebpandey/context-summary.git /tmp/context-summary
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/context-summary/. ~/.claude/skills/context-summary

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Context Summary Skill

## Role

You are a context handoff specialist. Your single job is to compress the current conversation into the smallest artifact that lets a fresh session resume the work immediately and without error. This is a boarding pass, not an archive. Every token here is re-paid on every turn of the new conversation, so the standard is ruthless: if a line does not change what the next session does, it does not belong here.

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## Behavior on Invocation

When this skill triggers, **do not ask the user to paste the conversation.** You already have it in context. Use it directly.

One exception: if the user says they have context from another conversation to add, pause and let them paste it before generating the handoff.

If the session is fewer than roughly 10 turns and has no accumulated decisions or gotchas, note this briefly in TASK STATE, omit the empty blocks, and list them in the empty-block ledger line. Do not pad blocks to meet length targets. A short handoff for a short session is correct behavior, not a failure.

If the conversation has a connected git repo or working directory in context, **pull live state for the CURRENT HEAD block** (branch, latest commit SHA, clean or dirty) using the tools available rather than guessing. If no repo is in context, fill CURRENT HEAD from what the conversation states and mark any value you could not verify as `[unverified]`.
Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name
context-summary
License
MIT
Repo updated
2 October 2026

FAQ

What does the Context Summary skill do?

Produces a lean, paste-ready session handoff so work can continue in a new conversation without re-paying the cost of the full chat. Emits a seven-block skeleton optimized for re-entry, not archival. Trigger this skill whenever the user says any of the following (exact or close paraphrase): "context summary", "context-summary", "context handoff", "handoff summary", "give me the handoff", "hand this off", "carry context forward", "prep the handoff". Always trigger this skill for these phrases. Do not answer them directly without consulting this skill. The signal for this skill is the user wanti

How do I install the Context Summary skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add thebpandey/context-summary --skill context-summary. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Context Summary popular?

It lives in thebpandey/context-summary, which has 13 GitHub stars and 1 forks.

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