Pick up any Claude Code chat where you left off (without wasting tokens)

Claude Code charges full price to pick a chat back up after a break. HandoffBar gives you a clean and accurate handoff, so you can start a new chat instead.

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Saves a handoff of every chat for you
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Copy it with one click
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Paste it into a new chat and keep going

Download for Mac Download for Windows VS Code extension Claude Code mod

The HandoffBar panel: a search box above a list of recent chats with titles, project names, and times. One row says Copied to clipboard.

Where do you use Claude?

Three ways to copy a handoff. They all save the same file for each chat, so you can use more than one. None of them types into your chat.

The HandoffBar menu bar panel: a list of recent chats with titles, projects, and times.

Menu bar app

In your Mac menu bar or Windows taskbar

Works with the terminal, VS Code, and the Claude desktop app

Every recent chat in one list. Click a chat and its handoff is on your clipboard.

Download for Mac Windows

The top right of a Claude chat tab in VS Code: an orange hand icon next to the Claude icon, with the tip Copy handoff for this chat.

VS Code extension

On each Claude chat tab

Works with Claude Code in VS Code

Click the orange hand to copy that chat's handoff. The bar at the bottom of VS Code shows how long its cache has left.

Get the extension

This chat's prompt cache expired
16 min ago. Your next message re-sends
the whole chat at full price.
press 0: [ 👉 Copy handoff ] [ Hide ]
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⚠ handoffbar: Prompt cache: expired
  16 min ago

Claude Code mod

Right above your prompt

Works with Claude Code in the terminal

Press 0 before you type anything to copy the handoff, or click the button in fullscreen mode. A countdown shows how long the cache has left.

Type this at the Claude Code prompt to install it:

/plugin install handoffbar --marketplace Proxylang/handoff-bar

The Claude desktop app can't show buttons from extensions or mods yet. Use the menu bar app there.

The details

In every handoff

Your first request and your last ten
The choices you made and Claude's next steps
Files the chat changed, and anything still running
The last error and Claude's last reply
The chat's title, folder, and git branch

In the app

Search every chat by title or project
Chats grouped by day, under your tab names
Opens at login and follows light or dark mode
macOS 13 or later, Windows 10 or later

Stays on your computer

Writes one Markdown file per chat in ~/.claude/handoffs
No account, no analytics, no AI model
Only network use: the Mac app checks GitHub for updates once a day
Signed by Apple and the Microsoft Store, open source under MIT

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