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I'm working on a large project in Claude Code and want to continue it using two separate Claude user accounts. To clarify: I'm the only developer—I'm switching between my own accounts, not handing the project over to another person. The problem is continuity. When I switch accounts and start a new Claude Code session on the same codebase, the incoming session is missing important context from the previous conversations. It doesn't always know why certain decisions were made, what constraints apply, or what's still unfinished. The project has grown large enough that manually explaining everything each time is difficult, and my handoff summaries have still left gaps. I'm looking for a reliable handoff workflow: What exact prompt do you give the outgoing session to prepare a handoff? Do you store the context in CLAUDE.md , a separate handoff document, or multiple files? What do you tell the incoming session to read and verify before making changes? How do you prevent important details from getting lost as the project grows? If you've used Claude Code this way, I'd really appreciate actual prompts or templates that worked for you. Thank you guys+ submitted by /u/Fluffy_Champion_3731

Originally posted by u/Fluffy_Champion_3731 on r/ClaudeCode

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[–] 1 point 5 days ago

Does the handoff prompt do anything different from just pasting the last few messages, or is it carrying state the transcript doesn't have? I ask because that file should hold the things nobody types: which branch is live, what you tried that didn't work. The assumption you're currently standing on is usually nowhere in it. If it's only a summary of the conversation, a fresh account will read it and still repeat the dead end. What goes in yours that a transcript wouldn't already tell me?

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