Ascend Skills Library
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Session restart.

Turn a session restart into a single paste — handoff, goal contract, and kickoff line.

v2.0.2·updated 18 Sep 2026·stable
Use the Ascend Skills: Session restart

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Skill details

What it does

A handoff file, a goal contract and one line to paste, so a fresh session continues the task with nothing re-explained.

Who uses it

operatorin Core

What you need

You bring:

  • the session about to end
  • the status file, if one exists

How it works5

The steps, in order. The method itself is served whole through the connector, current on every use.

  1. 1

    Scan the session for state and decisions

  2. 2

    Write the handoff with the first action on top

  3. 3

    Forge the goal contract

  4. 4

    Print the one-line kickoff

  5. 5

    Verify both files and their paths

What it doesn't do

  • Planning the work itself; it captures state and hands it over
  • Sessions with no single next action to name

When your AI reaches for it

One command to survive a session restart with zero re-explaining. Use when the operator says "/session-restart", "restarting session", "make sure all context survives", "do a handoff before a restart", "write a handoff for a new session" — or when THIS session's context is running low mid-task. Produces the handoff file, the goal contract, and the ONE line to paste into the new session.

Latest change

v2.0.218 Sep 2026
Declares that it writes no work product (`writes: []`): handoffs and goal contracts are agent state under `.ascend/handoffs/`, as before. No change to the method.

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