The definition
The transfer of responsibility between occupants of a continuing office: recover the handoff, resolve current state, check authority, and record the new tenure. It is more than copying a conversation. Succession is also the name of the maintainer’s own free Claude Code plugin — see /succession.
The same words the glossary hub and the public data mirror carry; this page is the stable address for the term.
Related terms
- State
The current condition of a user, workflow, task, or process — what persists between steps and sessions. Distinct from governed state, which adds provenance…
- Handoff
The dated account one session, agent, or tenure leaves for the next: current state, decisions, unfinished work, and open questions. The successor verifies it…
Where it shows up on this site
- Keep it going · LearnRung 4: Succession, so the next AI picks up where the last one stopped
- Succession · ToolThe free Claude Code plugin: every session gets a name and a handoff
The working definition of a continuity layer, in full, is at /what-is-a-continuity-layer. Every term, on one page, at /glossary.