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The job: you can hand off cleanly and keep the diff reviewable

Tell someone how to act on this idea: "You can hand off cleanly and keep the diff reviewable."

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The job: you can hand off cleanly and keep the diff reviewable. Start with this check: The receiving environment has enough context. Keep it small enough to check the result yourself instead of taking the summary on trust.

Hand the rest of the run to a cloud sibling

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  1. The local session already finished the refactor — typecheck green. What's left is the 40-minute integration suite, and that shouldn't tie up this machine.
  2. Switch to the cloud sibling in the sidebar — queued on the same branch, ready for the part that needs a machine, not a person watching it.
  3. Send it. The cloud sibling picks up the branch in its own isolated VM — local and cloud stay on the same history instead of drifting apart.
  4. Suite green in the cloud VM. Changes panel opens on the same branch you refactored locally — nothing diverged.
  5. Checks are green on the PR. Pull the branch back locally and run what the suite can't see — a type check, a read through the diff — before you merge.
Keep local work for the edit, then switch to a cloud sibling on the same branch for the long suite and PR.

Practice next: Split a stuck local run: keep the edit local, hand the long verify to a cloud session on the same branch.

Simulated Cursor 3.12 (macOS, light) — beta educational reconstruction, not the real product.