claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix [FEATURE] first-class session handoff + per-session token budgets for unattended runs

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Problem Statement

Claude Code gives great primitives (CLAUDE.md, slash commands, memory, auto-compaction) but leaves two recurring needs to be hand-assembled by each user:

1. Session continuity. When a session ends, useful state (what's done, what's next, open decisions) lives only in the transcript. The next session starts cold or drags the whole history forward. Most users never build a handoff ritual, so they silently lose context between sessions.

2. Cost/context guardrails for agentic use. For "leave it running on a task," there's no proactive per-session token budget, no hard ceiling, and only a thin readout of how much context is left. Spend and context can run away on autonomous runs before the user notices.

Proposed Solution

1. Built-in session handoff. An optional, first-class handoff artifact a session can write on exit and the next session reads on start — treated as a proposal to verify, not a command, and invalidated/flagged when the repo state has moved on (e.g. stamped with the commit it was written at).

2. Per-session budgets. Configurable soft + hard limits (token and/or cost) per session or task, with graceful degradation and a clear "X% of budget / context used" readout, rather than account-level caps only. Especially needed as workflows move toward unattended/agentic runs.

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Priority

High - Significant impact on productivity

Feature Category

Other

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