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How to leave a short handoff note for the next chat with Claude DB

Save a brief status note so the next Claude Code chat or a teammate can continue.

Who it is forA developer who stops mid-task and wants a teammate or a fresh chat to pick up the work without a long recap.

The problemWork in progress lives in one chat, so the next person or session has to rebuild the context by hand.

The outcomeA short note saved through /handoff that the next chat or teammate can read at the start of their session.

What you need first

  • Node 22.16 or newer
  • A git repository for your project
  • Claude Code installed and able to run hooks
  • Optional: a Postgres or MongoDB database if you want to share memory across machines

Steps

  1. npm install -g claude-db
  2. cd your-project
  3. claude-db install --project
  4. Restart Claude Code.
  5. At the end of your session, run /handoff and write a short note on what is done and what is next.

Prompt for your agent

In the repo <repo-path>, run /handoff in Claude Code at the end of the session and then start a new chat in the same project. Expected output is a short summary of the open work in the new chat. Verify that it names the same open task you wrote in the handoff.

Caveat. The note reaches a teammate only if they use the same Claude DB database, so a local SQLite store does not share it by default.

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