Recently I came across the /handoff skill, which I've been using a lot. I find it much better than /compact.

Basically:

- /handoff file creates a short document with the important context from your current session and maybe next steps as checklist.

- You can then start a fresh session with /continue file

- You can also hand the work from Claude to ChatGPT, or the other way around. Very useful at time of session limits.

- Plus your handoff files becomes a useful piece of project memory that you can reference later.

I find this much more useful than /compact or /clear because the context is saved in something portable instead of being tied to one session and i've seen better results doing this every 20 messages or so than running long sessions.

I have been doing this a lot even without a skill, having Fable write a planning document, then spawning an Opus subagent with instructions to strictly follow the plan and report any deviance at the end. It also helps that then the plan is always saved in an md file so any future agent can look at it and see what happened.