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 name: handover
-description: Procedure for an outgoing lead to write the handover file before a fresh lead session replaces it (fleetd #480). Load this when your context is full and fleetd is about to clear your pane. The file is the new lead's only inheritance — follow it exactly.
+description: Procedure for an outgoing lead to write the handover file that a fresh lead session inherits. Load this when your context is filling up and you are about to be replaced, whether you hand off by hand or fleetd does it for you. The file is the new lead's only inheritance — follow it exactly.
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 # Handover — write the file the next lead depends on
 
-fleetd ticket #480 lets a lead session hand off to a fresh one. The outgoing lead writes a
-handover file, fleetd checks it, clears the pane, and tells the new session to read that file
-and carry on.
+A lead session fills up its context and has to be replaced by a fresh one. The outgoing lead
+writes a handover file, and the new session reads that file and carries on.
+
+**Today this is a manual handoff.** You write the file, then tell the operator where it is. The
+operator starts the new session and points it at the file.
+
+**fleetd #480 will automate the same cycle** — the lead asks, fleetd checks the file, clears the
+pane, and tells the fresh session to read it. That work is not shipped yet, so **do not call a
+`fleet_handover` tool: it does not exist.** Check the live tool list before assuming otherwise.
+Nothing else in this procedure changes when it does ship; only who performs the swap changes.
 
 **The new lead's only inheritance is that file.** It does not see your conversation, your plan,
 or your screen. If the file is thin or wrong, the new lead re-derives what you already knew, and