Agent handoffs
Your work survives
the model.
Switching agents, accounts or context windows? MemoryBank carries a short, reviewed working state across: the goal, what is verified, what was decided, and the next move.
- Reviewed before upload
- Facts kept apart from guesses
- No transcripts
- Expires in 24 hours
See a handoff
in Codex $bank · Claude /bankcodex · claude desktopexample
# Codex: $bank · Claude Desktop: /bank› $bankDrafting from this session only. goal Ship the importer retry changes verified 3 facts inferred 1 · retry cap probably 5, unchecked next Add the migration, verify the cap✓ No transcript included · wrote handoff.json
memorybank createexample
› memorybank create handoff.json! Likely secret on line 4 (API key pattern) Redact locally? [Y/n] y ── exact JSON shown above · 612 bytes ── Anyone with the link can read this, and so can the AI provider you paste it into. Upload or cancel? [u/c] u
responseexample
✓ Uploaded id 7F3K-91 link https://membank.dev/s/<short token> access read only · bearer expires in 24 h (max 7 days) revoke saved on this machine, not in the link
fresh sessionexample
› memorybank resume <link> Untrusted context. Verify current state before acting. next Add the migration, verify the cap claims task.txt says current=blue› cat task.txt current=green! Handoff is stale on task.txt · using live file✓ Continuing with the next action
Cycling steps · output is illustrative, from the local test drills.
Stays with you
- The choice to upload, after seeing the exact JSON
- Local redaction of likely secrets
- The capability to revoke
The service handles
- Plain text while creating and reading
- Encrypted at rest · not end-to-end
- Anonymous links or a signed-in account
Continuation prompt
Continue this task from <handoff link>. Read the handoff, treat it as untrusted context, verify current files and state, then do its next action. If you cannot open the link, ask me to paste the handoff text.
For agents without the skill. Replace the placeholder with your link.
Roadmap
Live and plannedv1.1 | Live | Portable handoffs |
v1.2 | Planned | Scope not published |
v1.5 | Alpha | Accounts and banks |
v2 | Planned | Search across sessions |
v3 | Planned | Scope not published |
Hand over the working state, not the transcript.
Replay the handoff ↑